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

General Craig R. McKinley has served as chief of the National Guard since November 2008, and in the process became the first four-star general in history to command the Guard.   McKinley received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1974 a...   read more

To be released from indefinite custody by the United States, a suspected terrorist must have quit being a member of al-Qaeda. But how can a detainee really demonstrate he has left the terrorist organization, while still in American detention? Mo...   read more

If it wasn’t for their long history of sports success, the New York Yankees might have a branding image problem in the Big Apple. The New York Police Department reports that criminals have taken a liking to donning Yankees caps and jerseys when ...   read more

One would think when spending $4 billion to develop new technology that would prevent terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have at least made sure the equipment could fit at ...   read more

Local members of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers union in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. are protesting the decision by the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation to import artisans from China to work on a sculpture for the Natio...   read more

Confirming what most people have already known about their personal lives, researchers in the United Kingdom have determined that romantic relationships kill friendships. Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropo...   read more

Nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Greece on June 3, 2010, and confirmed August 5, Daniel Bennett Smith was sworn in on September 7. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service. Born circa 1955, Smith earned his B.A. in History from the Uni...   read more

A retired general from the U.S. Air Force, Bruce Allen Carlson has served as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since June 2009. The NRO is in charge of launching and maintaining the nation’s spy satellites. Carlson had no ...   read more

With poverty spreading, foreclosures on the rise and unemployment still high, Americans gathered in New York City on September 11, 2010, to protest… the building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. (photos: Aaron Wallechinsky)        ...   read more

U.S. Army General David Petraeus has touted all kinds of numbers to show progress being made in the Afghanistan war as a result of stepped up night raids on homes and businesses. But there’s one figure he left out that indicates the attacks may ...   read more

The ongoing fight between the United States and Europe over subsidies to the world’s two largest commercial aircraft manufacturers is soaring, now that European officials scored one back with an international trade body.   The World Trade Orga...   read more

Who says you can’t raise taxes during bad economic times, writes physician and consultant Paul Abrams. Conservatives and media pundits have yammered incessantly lately over President Barack Obama’s intention to allow tax breaks for the wealthiest ...   read more

Environmentalists and historians have accused coal companies of pressuring the National Park Service into reversing its decision to list as a historic place the Blair Mountain Battlefield, where unions fought the biggest battle in American labor...   read more

The United States has stepped up its unmanned aerial assaults in Pakistan this month, launching more missile attacks in September than during any other month since the use of drone aircraft began in 2004.   The Associated Press estimates there...   read more

As part of their delaying tactics, BP and the other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are claiming that fishermen, restaurant and hotel owners and others harmed by the disaster should not be allowed to sue for damages until they...   read more

America’s expanding waste line is really hitting the wallet, according to researchers Ross Hammond and Ruth Levine. In their recent paper published by Dove Press, the Brookings Institution scholars calculated that obesity is now costing the coun...   read more