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

Chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, has begun defending itself in a Philadelphia courtroom against claims that it is responsible for an outbreak of brain cancer cases in a small town in northern Illinois. The plain...   read more

Home foreclosures have become a serious problem for the Department of Defense, where financial instability can lead to an employee losing his or her security clearance. An analysis of Pentagon records by Sheldon Cohen, a national security law ex...   read more

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators want to go after overseas websites that traffic in pirated entertainment, such as movies and music.   The effort, known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, seeks to put file-sharing we...   read more

To commemorate its 10th anniversary in existence, the search engine Ask Jeeves, which is now known as Ask.com, has produced a top 10 of “unanswerables,” based on the frequency that visitors to the website have asked certain questions. After sort...   read more

If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such.   FDA...   read more

The days of publicly-financed sports stadiums are largely over for most American communities, and it’s just as well. For today, decades after many such venues were built to accommodate professional football and/or baseball teams, local residents...   read more

Federal officials have known for at least four years of serious fraud allegations involving the engineering and construction firm Louis Berger Group, which has handled important rebuilding projects in Afghanistan. But those accusations didn’t di...   read more

To the delight of defense attorneys, and the contempt of prosecutors, Missouri has decided to inform its judges, before they hand down sentences, how much it will cost to imprison convicted criminals versus the expense of putting them on probati...   read more

One of the largest labor unions in California faces the prospect of losing thousands of members as a splinter group seeks to pull away from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).   Members of SEIU have been given the choice of stayi...   read more

Saudi Arabia hasn’t fought a war since the 1930s, and already spends about 13% of its GDP on defense—so why would it agree to buy even more weapons as part of the richest arms sales ever by the U.S. government?   One possible explanation, acco...   read more

It’s been more than nine years since September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government continues to operate under the provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which President George W. Bush first implemented three days after the terrorist attacks o...   read more

Whether she wins or not, Meg Whitman already has accomplished something in her quest to become California’s next governor. With six weeks still left in the campaign, Whitman has spent more of her own money than any other individual running for o...   read more

Linda Simons, SeaWorld’s former safety director, claims she was fired for not following the orders of park officials to impede the federal government’s investigation of a trainer who was killed by an orca earlier this year.   In her lawsuit file...   read more

Appointed by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke on November 9, 2009, Bruce E. Borzino took over as director of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) after working in the public and private sectors designing, acquiring and modernizing bus...   read more

Efforts to extract oil from sand pits in Canada may be a harbinger of environmental troubles awaiting Utah if the state goes through with its own oilsands project, which would be the first of its kind in the United States.   In Canada’s Saskatch...   read more

More than half of the garment workers in Cambodia, where retail goods are manufactured for the West, temporarily ended their mass strike this week after industry officials agreed to more talks with union representatives.   On July 27, police i...   read more