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

Park officials in Pennsylvania are toying with the idea of moving a monument dedicated to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg because motorists keep crashing into it. The memorial, known as the 74th Pennsylvania Monument, is situated only 10 feet from...   read more

The Department of the Treasury is proposing a significant expansion of reporting requirements for banks involving money transfers to and from the United States, all in the name of thwarting future terrorist attacks.   Administration officials ...   read more

Citing the need to protect classified information, the Obama administration has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit intended to stop the government’s attempts to assassinate a U.S. citizen overseas.   The focus of the civil case is Anwa...   read more

Officials in Sidney, New York, want the local Muslim religious community to remove its small cemetery, claiming bodies have been buried illegally in the upstate locale. But when pressed on the matter, town leaders were unable to cite the laws br...   read more

Ongoing budget deficits at the local government level have opened the door for a private company to develop into the fifth largest library system in the United States. Library Systems & Services (LSSI) currently operates 14 public library system...   read more

David Walls doesn’t think much of Dial Corporation’s claims about the disinfecting powers of its soap. He’s suing the manufacturer to stop it from claiming Dial Complete 1) “'kills 99.99% of germs,” 2) is the most recommended product of its kind...   read more

Six members of Massey Energy’s management are balking at testifying before state and federal investigators trying to determine the cause of the Upper Big Branch Mine accident that killed 29 miners, the nation’s worst coal mining disaster in 40 y...   read more

Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small software company in Massachusetts, claims the CIA is using a stolen computer program for its drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.   In a lawsuit it filed in Boston, IISi alleges that a form...   read more

Legislation granting illegal immigrant students the chance to remain in the U.S. as legal residents died in the Senate after Republicans refused to vote for a defense authorization bill to which the measure was attached.   The DREAM (Developme...   read more

Once the U.S. military completely pulls out of Iraq, the State Department will be on its own to handle security—a task for which it does not have the funding, the experience or the expertise.   The State Department will now be in charge of mor...   read more

Christopher J. Portier, who has thirty years of relevant, high-level experience under his belt, took over as director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on August 2, 2010. ATSDR is a federal public health agency under ...   read more

Having lost a key ruling in federal court involving the government’s ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military, the Obama administration continues to fight the outlawing of “don’t ask, don’t tell” despite the president’s insistence he wa...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $230 billion deficit over the next decade, has been giving out contracts to former top executives and employees who in some cases have earned twice what they made while working for the federal government.   Si...   read more

While New York City and many other parts of America struggle to accept Muslims near Ground Zero, the U.S. Army is showing signs of more openness towards one group mistakenly caught up in the post-9/11 hysteria.   Sikhs, who were mistaken for M...   read more

A 30-year careerist in the field of intelligence, Caryn A. Wagner has served as the under secretary in charge of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis in the Department of Homeland Security since February 2010.   Born September 22, 1957, in ...   read more

A veteran police chief from California, Bernard K. Melekian has been the director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in the U.S. Department of Justice since October 2009. Founded in 1994, COPS promotes a community-based...   read more