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

Only a year ago, the Department of Defense announced a commitment to reduce the number of contractors it uses for various services and functions. That plan has already been discarded by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who quietly dropped the go...   read more

The FBI’s forensic laboratory is having a tough time keeping up with demand for DNA analyses from its agents, as well helping local and state law enforcement deal with DNA testing. An investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general ...   read more

BP is being sued by the state of Texas for excess pollution that has nothing to do with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In April and May, while all eyes were on the broken well that released millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, BP’s Texas City...   read more

The U.S. Navy has gotten the okay from the National Marine Fisheries Service to harm up to 27 different Pacific Ocean species during its training exercises scheduled near the Mariana Islands. The authorization includes killing up to 10 beaked whal...   read more

Despite complaints from officials in Israel, the Obama administration plans to sell $30 billion in advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, making it one of the biggest weapons sales of its kind.   Israel, which has long maintained military superi...   read more

Metropolis, Illinois, has two powerful distinctions that separate it from all other cities in America. One, it’s the self-proclaimed hometown of Superman. Two, it’s home to the nation’s only uranium conversion plant—where striking workers are refu...   read more

Every weekend for the past four years, Pastor Bill Dunfee of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, Ohio, has led his flock in protesting the existence of the Foxhole strip club. Having grown tired of the picketing and videotaping of cust...   read more

The August 9 edition of Time featured a cover photo of an Afghan woman who had her nose chopped off, along with the headline: “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” The implication was that, despite the increasing unpopularity of the war, the U.S...   read more

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics is again raising the question: Why are girls reaching puberty at a younger age?   Following up on research published in 1997 that showed similar results, the new study revealed more girls age seven...   read more

For the first time, the American Psychological Association (APA) has publicly questioned the ethics of a military psychologist who oversaw the CIA’s torture of a detainee during the Bush administration.   The APA wrote a letter to the Texas lice...   read more

The Government Printing Office (GPO) may not be very large, but it has its share of unhappy employees. One of the smaller agencies in the U.S. government, the GPO, with about 2,300 workers, recorded the highest rate of discrimination complaints (2...   read more

Dr. David Egilman, a professor at Brown University who contends it’s possible to contract lung cancer from eating too much microwave popcorn, filed an appeal in a lawsuit to which he was only an expert witness, not a plaintiff.   Egilman testifi...   read more

Although no formal policy has been adopted for dealing with the problem, defense officials are moving closer to acknowledging the health consequences of open-pit burning on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Some soldiers who have devel...   read more

Vilma S. Martínez, the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, has a long history of straddling the worlds of corporate boardrooms and legal defense of minorities.  One of the leading voices in Hispanic civil rights since the 1970s, Martínez has run the Mex...   read more

Fort Detrick in Maryland is responsible for numerous cases of cancer, including three in one family, according to local residents. Base officials have admitted Agent Orange was used there a long time ago, along with industrial solvents, but the cl...   read more

Bank officials in Romania have come under fire from Holocaust experts for issuing a special coin honoring Miron Cristea, a former prime minister who demonized Jews prior to the outbreak of World War II.   Cristea led Romania’s Orthodox Church be...   read more