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

Insurance companies contracting with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide life insurance to soldiers have been profiting off monies intended for survivors of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.   Instead of paying lump sums to ben...   read more

As part of the National Security Letters (NSL) process, which permits the government to obtain records related to terrorist threats without a warrant, the Obama administration wants the FBI to gain access to a user’s Web browser history. Under the...   read more

BP plans to write off nearly $10 billion in oil spill expenses when it pays its corporate taxes to the federal government—an amount that’s about half of what it pledged to spend to help victims living on the gulf coast. In its latest earnings repo...   read more

Those looking to defraud the Small Business Administration need only be persistent and good at counterfeiting. That’s what the Government Accountability Office (GAO) discovered when it submitted documents for phony businesses to SBA’s Historically...   read more

Parameswaran Subramanyam, a Tamil refugee in the United Kingdom who went 23 days without eating, received nearly £80,000 ($125,000) and a public apology from two British tabloids that accused him of eating McDonald’s hamburgers during his protest....   read more

After a federal judge nullified the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore oil drilling, federal lawyers have turned to a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit appellate court to get the ban reinstated. But two of the three judges set to h...   read more

In the current climate of “No” on Capitol Hill, Democrats might well consider Republicans Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma the biggest “nattering nabobs of negativity” in the Senate.   After reviewing 21 years of voting ...   read more

After enjoying a 50-year low in deaths last year, law enforcement is suffering through a significant rise in 2010 in on-duty fatalities among officers. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, so far this year 87 law enfor...   read more

Unable to pay fines for skipping school, teenagers as young as 13 in an impoverished Texas county have wound up spending weeks in local jails, according to a lawsuit filed against Hidalgo County. Lead plaintiffs Francisco De Luna and Elizabeth Di...   read more

The U.S. Army, along with the National Guard and Army Reserves, averaged a suicide a day in June, making what already was a bad year even worse.   Thirty-two soldiers, including 11 in the Guard and Reserve, killed themselves last month, a rate o...   read more

When the United States fought World War II, it spent $4.1 trillion (in inflation-adjusted dollars) while putting together a fighting force of 16 million men and women and battling the Axis powers (Japan, Germany, Italy) on three continents. Flash ...   read more

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s removal of a 60-year-old restriction on corporate political donations, companies are coming out in support of the Republican favorite for the Minnesota governor’s race.   Retailer Target has contributed $150,000 to ...   read more

After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Washington took ownership of a special fund sanctioned by the United Nations that held Iraqi oil sales revenues for the purposes of buying humanitarian aid. American officials with the Coalition Provi...   read more

White men continue to dominate the ranks of the federal workforce, while white women and Latinos hold fewer jobs than they should compared to their overall representation in the U.S. population. Of the 2.8 million federal workers, 55.9% were men a...   read more

Following the abrupt stoppage three songs into the Kings of Leon concert last week, fans became irate, screaming: “Bullshit!”   No, pigeon shit.   Playing at the Verizon Amphitheatre in St. Louis, members of the rock band found themselves bomb...   read more

It’s not supposed to work this way: company profits going up while sales lag. But that’s the business reality in today’s post-recession economy, as executives are either holding off on hiring new workers—or even cutting jobs—in order to put their ...   read more