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

President Barack Obama has assured environmentalists that his administration is serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But a new rule crafted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contains a loophole big enough to drive a dum...   read more

Housing advocates have filed complaints against two national banks for allegedly allowing foreclosed homes in black and Latino neighborhoods to fall into disrepair, while at the same time taking better care of bank-owned houses in predominantly wh...   read more

Labor leaders are outraged over a California worker-safety agency’s decision to fine Chevron only $350 for an accident that resulted in an employee being sucked underground and boiled to death.   Construction supervisor Robert David “Dave” Taylo...   read more

Three scientific journals have published articles over the past two years warning of the rise in retractions and misconduct by researchers who have fudged results.   The latest publication to do so was Infection and Immunity, which revealed it h...   read more

As many as four million Americans could wind up without health care benefits if a new federal rule is implemented as interpreted by the Treasury Department, warned consumer advocates, doctors and Democratic lawmakers.   Under the healthcare refo...   read more

President Barack Obama is not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, but that doesn’t mean he’s not accepting lobbyists in the Oval Office.   A review of White House visitor logs by The New York Times found that many lobbyists have p...   read more

Simplifying income tax returns may be good for individual Americans, but bad for software companies that do business with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).   Until now, 14 software makers have sold tax preparation programs to the IRS for the a...   read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs is so behind in processing claims and benefits that the waiting list for decisions has doubled since President Barack Obama took office.   Currently, about 870,000 veterans are waiting for the VA to approve or ...   read more

Almost a third of all election-eligible transgender Americans living in states with strict voter-ID laws could be denied the right to cast ballots this November.   Jody L. Herman, a Peter J. Cooper Public Policy Fellow at The Williams Institute ...   read more

Is the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under attack since the moment of its conception, already in danger of becoming a paper tiger? Congress created CFPB in 2010 as part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protect...   read more

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC), charged with overseeing federal election standards, has no appointed leaders in the year of a presidential election.   Four commissioners, two Democrats and two Republicans, are supposed to head the EA...   read more

Having caused drinking water contamination and outbreaks of earthquakes in rural regions in Montana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, the controversial practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has gone Hollywood. Resident...   read more

Every spring, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) gives critics of the Defense Department (DoD) a present, courtesy of Congress, in the form of a report on the state of the Pentagon’s major weapons programs. GAO’s report for 2011, released ...   read more

A special program created by the Obama administration to help homeowners hit hardest by the mortgage crisis has aided only a small fraction of those eligible.   The two-year-old Hardest Hit Fund, managed by the Department of the Treasury t...   read more

What do Raymond Knaeble, Ayman Latif, Abe Mashal and Steven Washburn have in common, aside from being veterans of the U.S. armed forces? They all have no idea why they are on the government’s secret “No-Fly List”—and they’re suing the government o...   read more

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for overseeing the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, pays private contractors tens of millions of dollars to run day-to-...   read more