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

Republicans in Congress have accused Amtrak’s board of directors of illegally firing the agency’s longtime inspector general, who uncovered questionable financial decisions made by the passenger railroad service. According to a report issued by ...   read more

Investigators for the Department of Defense have, for the past year, been sitting on a controversial report about the drugging of detainees at Guantánamo and other facilities. The report by the Pentagon’s inspector general was completed in Septemb...   read more

Selling $60 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia is a win-win deal, according to the Obama administration. The largest weapons deal ever by the U.S. would create more than 70,000 jobs for the stumbling U.S. economy, and it would strengthen ties with ...   read more

John Brooks Rice of New Orleans received $18,000 from the federal government to monitor media coverage of the Obama administration’s handling of the Gulf oil crisis for two months. A spokesman for the Coast Guard has said that it expects BP to r...   read more

No state in the nation owes more to immigrants than California, where foreign-born workers play a vital role in the economy. An extensive analysis of census data and other information by the Orange County Register found that one-third of Califor...   read more

Business is booming for the military in these lean economic times. The four major branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) are “far exceeding their recruiting goals,” according to the Dallas Morning News, which reports ...   read more

Black students in middle school stand a much greater chance of being suspended than any other group, especially in parts of Florida and Wisconsin, according to university researchers. Using data from the U.S. Department of Education, researchers...   read more

General Motors, which still is controlled by the federal government since the auto industry bailout, plans to pay its new chief executive officer, Dan Akerson, about $9 million, between salary ($1.7 million) and stock options ($7.3 million).   ...   read more

When income data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau is released for 2009, it’s likely to show the poverty rate jumped to 15% from 13.2% the year before—the single highest increase since the government began recording such information in 1959.  ...   read more

Homeowners looking to sell their property would be wise to make sure they’re not on the hook for paying the original developer of the home thousands of dollars once the sale goes through. Developers are increasingly adding “resale fee” covenants...   read more

Ten babies have died suddenly since January 2007 while living in base housing at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, prompting investigations into materials used to build homes. One home in particular may have been responsible for the deaths of three ...   read more

Police in Nashua, New Hampshire have arrested what they believe are the culprits behind a string of robberies aided by people who posted too much personal information on Facebook. The robbers, who stole between $100,000 and $200,000, allegedly z...   read more

Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR got quite the deal from the Bush administration when it agreed to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure following the 2003 invasion. Not only was it paid millions of dollars for the work, but it was also indemnifie...   read more

The Great Recession really was a great time for many members of Congress. While millions of Americans lost jobs and homes and struggled to pay bills, the 50 richest lawmakers managed during 2009 to pad their wealth with another $85 million colle...   read more

America’s top military commander in Afghanistan, Army General David Petraeus, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, insisted recently that Taliban attacks involving roadside bombs have “flattened” over the past year. Have they?   Petra...   read more

Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is unhappy with the performance of the Defense Department’s chief watchdog, and for good reason. The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office didn’t investigate a single weapons contract or contractor las...   read more