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

No sooner did the gavel drop in a federal courtroom where “don’t ask, don’t tell” was ruled unconstitutional than former soldiers kicked out for being homosexual reenlisted in the military. One of those was Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, a West Point-e...   read more

Launching a career after four years of college is extremely difficult to do these days. Andrew Sum, professor of economics at Northeastern University, estimates that less than 50% of recent college graduates held a job requiring a degree, based ...   read more

Keith Grinston is suing the Belleville News Democrat for misidentifying him—not once, not twice, but three times—as a man who stabbed his wife to death but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The confusion involved the newspaper publishi...   read more

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street powerhouses have moved into the tax-collecting business, setting up new entities that press struggling Americans for late property tax payments.   The Huffington Post Investigative Fund unc...   read more

To avoid paying taxes and health benefits, Wal-Mart knowingly hires illegal immigrants to perform janitorial duties at its stores, according to a lawsuit filed against the retailer. Forty-two plaintiffs say Wal-Mart hired them because they were ...   read more

The Fellowship Foundation, sponsor of the National Prayer Breakfast, should be investigated by the IRS, argues a group of Ohio ministers calling themselves the Clergy VOICE.   The activist group wrote to the IRS commissioner claiming the Fello...   read more

Last year wasn’t just bad for charitable organizations—it was dreadful. In the 20 years that The Chronicle of Philanthropy has tracked donations to the nation’s biggest charities, the editors had never seen anything like 2009.   From 2008 to 2...   read more

More than 1.3 million people in Haiti still find themselves with no permanent home more than nine months after the January 12 earthquake, relying instead on 1,354 refugee camps for shelter. But most of the camps provide little in the way of supp...   read more

Securities lending is a great deal for banks like JPMorgan Chase, but not so good for the pension funds that handled the future retirements of private and public employees.   Pension funds turned over millions of dollars to JPMorgan and other ...   read more

The rich are once again spending money on themselves, as demonstrated by the noticeable rise in luxury sales in 2010. Purchases of fine clothes, jewelry and other luxury items has surged 10% so far this year, for a total of $237 billion, after d...   read more

David Coleman Headley, 50, who pleaded guilty in March 2010 to conspiracy to commit murder in the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed at least 166 people, was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ...   read more

Dubbed the worst of the worst who helped cause the financial crisis, Angelo Mozilo has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. government for leading mortgage lender Countrywide—and a large part of the housing market—into turmoil. But the penalty—w...   read more

Officials in Washington are convinced that a number of Chinese banks and businesses are helping Iran develop its military and civilian nuclear programs. The Obama administration has been careful to emphasize that it is not accusing the Chinese g...   read more

Because major drug companies keep breaking the law with regard to illegal marketing of pharmaceuticals, officials with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are finally thinking about prosecuting executives of the companies.   In recent years...   read more

Judging the performance of the federal bailout program for banks is tough to do when government officials rely on private contractors—that aren’t subject to public scrutiny—to do the actual work.   That’s the case with the Department of the Tr...   read more

The November election may be shaping up to be a big winner for Republicans, whether it’s in Congress or at the gubernatorial level. But the long-term picture continues to appear grim for both major political parties.   Allegiance has been slip...   read more