Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

A new multi-part series on PBS discusses four major economic issues affecting the United States and, it just so happens, the interests of the program’s corporate sponsor.   Dow Chemical underwrote the series “America Revealed,” whose four instal...   read more

Two fishermen from Panama adrift in their disabled boat might have lived had an American cruise ship bothered to stop and pick them up last month.   While sailing from South America to the United States on March 10, the Star Princess cruise ship...   read more

Federal and state officials have joined together to go after DuPont for allegedly dumping hazardous substances into Kansas’ waterways and soil.   In a lawsuit filed in federal court, the U.S. Department of Justice, along with environmental offic...   read more

Monsanto has purchased a research company whose mission is to combat the massive die off of honeybees—a problem blamed in part on the biotech giant’s genetically modified corn.   Last fall, Monsanto quietly purchased Beeologics, which is “dedica...   read more

Using a new law intended to end racial discrimination in sentencing, a judge in North Carolina threw out the death sentence of an African-American man convicted of murder 18 years ago.   Judge Greg Weeks of Cumberland County Superior Court concl...   read more

Washington’s effort to help protect the American farmer has proven to be a billion-dollar bonanza for insurance companies and agents.   According to a report from the Environmental Working Group, the federal government’s crop insurance program h...   read more

For the first time in its history, the United Nations is scrutinizing the plight of Native Americans in the United States.   UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya, a human rights professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Law, will spend th...   read more

The Obama administration should cancel an experimental Medicare program that is wasting $8 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).   As part of the 2010 health care law, Congress eliminated Medicare payments to managed ...   read more

Police in Scotland have arrested a 63-year-old woman for entering a mannequin as a city council candidate in Aberdeen.   Renee Slater was charged under a 1983 law, the Representation of the People Act, for trying to pass off the dummy, named Hel...   read more

Doug Welborn, state district court clerk of Baton Rouge, and Jeff L. Thigpen, register of deeds in Guilford County, North Carolina, are doing what millions of recession-weary Americans wish they could do: they are suing large banks and mortgage co...   read more

Partisanship between Republicans and Democrats isn’t the only source of divide these days in Washington, DC. Members of the intelligence community and the military are also on opposite sides, in this case regarding the future of American spy satel...   read more

Dormant for four years, a federal watchdog charged with preventing anti-terrorism-related abuses of power may finally come back to life.   The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), created in 2004 at the urging of the 9/11 Commiss...   read more

The Pentagon’s top spy agency, like the rest of the intelligence community, was roundly criticized for key intelligence failures in the run-up to the war in Iraq, including finding that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and had clos...   read more

Are the police using unmanned drones, like those used against terrorists in places like Pakistan and Yemen, to conduct surveillance of your community from the sky? Since 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued about 700 to 750 “...   read more

Despite a stated mission “to satisfy curiosity and make a difference in people’s lives,” the science-oriented Discovery Channel decided not to satisfy the curiosity of viewers of its latest documentary series, Frozen Planet. The BBC series on life...   read more

There is a saying in Burma that one must be wary of five evils:  fire, water (storms and floods), thieves, mean people and…government. The military junta that has ruled Burma (which it renamed as “Myanmar”) since 1962, has been one of the most rep...   read more