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

Explanations for rising suicides rates among Americans who have gone long periods without work are easily understood. The same can’t be said for the guardians of the nation’s borders who also are experiencing spikes in suicides.   Among the 14.6...   read more

As far as Major General James E. Chambers is concerned, being in the U.S. Army also means being in God’s army too. For the past several years, Chambers, the born-again commander of first Fort Eustis and then Fort Lee in Virginia, has wanted his so...   read more

A judge in Saudi Arabia has asked at least two hospitals if they will intentionally sever a man’s spinal cord as punishment for his crime of crippling another man with a meat cleaver. The culprit already was convicted for the attack and served sev...   read more

Not only is Letitia A. “Tish” Long the first woman selected to head the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), but, according to the Defense Department, she is also the first woman chosen to lead any of the federal government’s “major” int...   read more

President Barack Obama chose former Time managing editor and CNN executive Walter Isaacson to chair the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the U.S. government. He ...   read more

What the Executive and Judicial branches of government have been reluctant to do in the U.S, their counterparts in other countries are confronting head-on. Judges in the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, Poland and Lithuania are preparing to hear ...   read more

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz of Iran is suing Nokia and Siemens in U.S. federal court claiming the European companies facilitated his capture and torture at the hands of the Iranian government. Saharkhiz, a one-time reporter for the Islamic Republic N...   read more

It used to be that the production and maintenance of spy satellites was in government hands, but now this important aspect of national security is routinely outsourced. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Department of Defense’s...   read more

For the sixth time, a court case will attempt to decide once and for all the owner of the world’s largest rough emerald. The 840-pound, 180,000-carat green gemstone has been the source of much trouble for individuals from the U.S. and Brazil, wher...   read more

Albertson’s, Vons (Safeway), Ralphs and Food 4 Less violated antitrust laws as a result of their 2003 profit-sharing agreement, ruled a federal appellate court. In banding together to share profits in the event workers from one of the stores went ...   read more

Contrary to the much-touted federal government report issued August 2 by the National Incident Command (NIC), the vast majority of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon accident is still in the ocean. An assessment conduct...   read more

Polls show that a majority of Americans would like to see the bulk of U.S. troops leave Afghanistan within the next two years, but military leaders are not as enthusiastic about ending the war. President Barack Obama has said that he wants to begi...   read more

Small businesses in states ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were cut out of most of the government contracts for clean up and rebuilding work that followed the storms in 2005.   An assessment by the Government Accountability Office found t...   read more

What once was St. Mary’s Cemetery in Ventura, California, is today a public park—but the original occupants of the cemetery are still around.   Most of the 3,000 people buried long ago in St. Mary’s were never relocated; just the headstones and ...   read more

Federal regulations keep piling up under President Barack Obama, who’s on pace to surpass the regulatory zeal of George W. Bush, writes Ryan Young, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.   The Federal Re...   read more

In less than two years, the United States has suffered more combat deaths in Afghanistan under President Barack Obama than it did during the two-term presidency of George W. Bush. The latest casualty figures show 577 American soldiers have died in...   read more