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 business leader experienced in media and international markets, Dawn L. McCall took over as coordinator of the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs on July 28, 2010. The Bureau is the main propaganda arm of the U.S. ...   read more

The director of the Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) brings with him to the job almost twenty years of experience in the department. LM oversees former nuclear weapons complex sites that have undergone cleanup of radioactive...   read more

Upset over the first edition of the Afghanistan War memoir, Operation Dark Heart by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the Department of Defense went about buying up all published copies and destroying them, claiming the book was too revealing of classif...   read more

The White House and Congress should do a better job of considering the foreign policy implications of making billion-dollar arms sales to the Middle East, says the Government Accountability Office (GAO).   The report reviewed sales from 2005-2...   read more

America’s growing prison population over the last several decades has resulted in more and more children growing up without a parent, most often a father being the one behind bars.   A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts reveals that more th...   read more

A Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off her squad for not cheering for a basketball player she accused of trying to rape her lost her free speech case before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court found the femal...   read more

Whether struggling Americans are short on cash for campaign contributions to hometown candidates or big-moneyed interests are determined to gain influence across the country, many candidates for the U.S. Senate and House are relying heavily on d...   read more

Representing hundreds more like them, a group of individuals imprisoned immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are suing former leaders of the Bush administration, alleging they were falsely detained and in some cases abused by law en...   read more

Jargon needs to go, says Congress, which adopted legislation this week requiring the federal government to use clear language in public documents.   Sponsored in the Senate by Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio), the Plain Wr...   read more

Not since 1880, when the U.S. government first began keeping matrimonial statistics, has the country had more single people between the ages of 25 and 34 than married ones—until 2009 rolled around. As of last year, the rate of unmarried in this ...   read more

The future is now in León, Mexico, which plans to become the first city to rely on iris and face-scanning technologies for everything from crime fighting to banking. The city of approximately one million citizens has contracted with Global Rainm...   read more

More than 90 years since the conclusion of fighting, Germany on October 3 will finally pay off the last of its reparations that were imposed by the Allies after World War I ended.   The 1919 Treaty of Versailles set the reparations, which went...   read more

The gap between rich and poor Americans grew wider than ever last year, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.   Those making more than $100,000 annually (the top 20% of the population) received 49.4% of all income generated in 2009,...   read more

If President Barack Obama acceded to Republican and conservative Democrats demands to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year, the decision would cost the federal government $2.8 trillion in revenue ov...   read more

The Obama administration wants to force all communications companies to make their networks compliable with wiretapping orders from law enforcement, a change that would primarily affect the likes of Facebook, Skype, BlackBerrys and similar encry...   read more

Hundreds of FBI agents may have cheated on an exam testing their knowledge about when they can legally spy on Americans. The FBI’s inspector general found widespread “cheating and abuse” by agents located around the country who took the bureau’s...   read more