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

Tiger Woods has nothing on Gaius Appuleius Diocles. While the famed golfer closes in on earning a billion dollars playing his sport, Woods would still have a long way to go before his winnings come close to Diocles, ancient Rome’s most famous char...   read more

If a U.S. government computer comes under attack, the incentive is most likely money, not terrorism. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) at the Department of Homeland Security found that 90% of incidents of computer attacks in the...   read more

Terence P. McCulley, selected by President Barack Obama on June 28, 2010, to serve as ambassador to Nigeria, is a member of the Senior Foreign Service whose diplomatic career has been spent mostly in Africa or working on African issues. He was con...   read more

Wealthy Americans who think the financial crisis is over might want to consider what happened in Atlanta on Wednesday. Housing officials there got more than they expected when the application period for public housing assistance opened, drawing a ...   read more

Watching cable news is not for the young. A new Nielsen survey shows Fox News has the oldest audience, averaging 65 years of age. CNN was right behind Fox, with a median audience age of 63, followed by MSNBC (59) and CNBC (52). The same survey sho...   read more

In need of a new trade to make money for their monastery, the Benedictine monks of Saint Joseph Abbey in Covington, Louisiana, took up casketing-making a few years ago to help support themselves. But then the state board that regulates the funeral...   read more

J. (John) Dudley Butler, a longtime attorney from Mississippi, took over as administrator of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) on May 11, 2009, following his appointment by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. D...   read more

Anthony Marion (Tony) Babauta was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs on September 10, 2009.  He oversees federal administration of the United States possessions of Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas I...   read more

One-fifth of the human genome is currently controlled by companies that have received patents issued by the U.S. government. More than 40,000 gene patents have been awarded to biotechnology businesses, with even more on the way, what with three mi...   read more

Advocates for changing American immigration law received new information to fuel their argument that children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. should not receive automatic citizenship. A study released by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that ...   read more

Credit cards are no longer the biggest personal debt problem for Americans. As of June, outstanding student loans totaled $829.8 billion, while credit card debt was $826.5 billion. Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, told The...   read more

Nearly 2,000 civil rights complaints were filed against employees of the Department of Justice in the first half of 2010, but the agency’s inspector general only bothered to investigate one of the cases. The IG reported that almost all of the 1,99...   read more

Major League Baseball (MLB) has been more than willing to hire minorities to coach first base, a position that’s not as prestigious or strategically important to the game as the third-base coach position, which is considered a major stepping stone...   read more

Like the old Soviet government did in downplaying the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, Russian officials are publicly minimizing the risk posed by wildfires in the same region that is still contaminated by radiation. Of particular concern are thre...   read more

Only weeks after BP’s undersea well began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists from two universities conducted early studies revealing that large amounts of oil were accumulating at the bottom of the ocean. But the U.S. Coast Guard and ...   read more

Going to college is costing considerably more than just two years ago, forcing the majority of minority students to live at home. A new survey produced by Sallie Mae found the average cost of attending a university or college in 2009-2010 was $18,...   read more