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

The fight over the release of Federal Reserve documents revealing which banks received emergency bailout funds from the Fed during the height of the 2008 financial crisis appears headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, now that the financial industry ha...   read more

As the United States downsizes its commitment in Iraq, it leaves behind billions of dollars in wasted reconstruction efforts, such as the $40 million spent to partially build a prison north of Baghdad that sits abandoned.   Work on the prison in...   read more

Banks by the hundreds have been closing in recent years during the recession and the weak economic recovery. The tough climate has made it difficult for new financial institutions to get off the ground—in fact, only one new federally-insured bank ...   read more

Law enforcement can enter the driveways of people suspected of criminal behavior and attach tracking devices to their cars, all without a warrant, says a panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision runs contrary to other le...   read more

With so many Americans struggling to get by, the United States has experienced a drop in births for the second year in a row, to the lowest level in the nation’s history. The U.S. birth rate fell in 2009 to 13.5 per 1,000 population—a marked decli...   read more

Drinking bottled water nowadays is about the same as consuming filtered tap water, according to a new report from the advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Their assessment shows that from 2000 to 2009, the proportion of bottled water taken from muni...   read more

There are those in Washington who want to raise the standard retirement age from 65 to 70 in order to ease some of the burden on Social Security. But such a change could force millions of Americans to accept reduced benefits because of the nature ...   read more

No longer in need of recruits, the U.S. Army is discontinuing a test project in which the service helped high school students earn their equivalency certificates so they could qualify to become soldiers.   Nearly 3,000 high school dropouts went ...   read more

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers whether to impose new federal regulations on coal ash, a new report shows the waste is a bigger problem than previously reported.   The study, produced by the Environmental Integrity Proje...   read more

It’s energy security vs. national security. The Department of Energy vs. the Department of Defense.   Out West in California, the U.S. military is raising a stink about the many wind farms cropping up in the desert, claiming the towering turbine...   read more

Ninety percent of South Sudan’s population lives on less than $1 a day. Its annual budget is $1.9 billion. And yet leaders of the region, which may become an independent nation next year, want to spend $10.1 billion to transform their cities into ...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated Maura Connelly to be U.S. ambassador to the volatile Middle Eastern nation of Lebanon on June 3, 2010, and her Senate confirmation hearing was held on July 20. Connelly was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. At her c...   read more

A technology policy expert with more than two decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Lawrence E. Strickling has served as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information in the Department of Commerce since June 25, 2009, p...   read more

Too much of the U.S. government has established a bad habit of doing business again and again with the same contractors, resulting in inefficiencies and lost opportunities to save money. The Government Accountability Office came to this conclusion...   read more

In an effort to bolster their plan to secede and form their own country, officials in southern Sudan want to bring home 1.5 million refugees living in the northern part of the country and Egypt so they can vote in an independence referendum schedu...   read more

If you want a little flesh with your blackjack, it’s going to cost you. Casinos in Las Vegas are lowering their payouts at blackjack tables in order to cover the costs of exotic dancers performing in nearby “party pits,” a recent addition to the g...   read more