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

Cutting back on government spending to reduce the deficit is wrongheaded, argues Hale “Bonddad” Stewart at FiveThirtyEight. Stewart says economic austerity plans have proven to be a bad idea in Europe, where the results have been high unemployment...   read more

After being denied re-entry into the United States for two months, Yahya Wehelie finally has been allowed to return to Virginia. The U.S.-born citizen of Somali parents spent 18 months in Yemen to learn Arabic and find a wife before winding up stu...   read more

For someone who lost her job because of President Barack Obama’s education plan, Joyce Irvine is being a really good sport about her situation. But that doesn’t come as a surprise to those who know the Vermont elementary school principal who has w...   read more

Graffiti from such gangs as the Maniac Latin Disciples, the Gangster Disciples and the Latin Kings is prevalent not just in the inner city of Chicago, but also on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s because gang members are joining...   read more

The Obama administration is being accused of getting away with crackdowns on government whistleblowers that President George W. Bush would have been publicly admonished for.   The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has allegedly go...   read more

U.S. government contractors may be engaging in sex trafficking in Iraq and Afghanistan, but officials in Washington appear to be taking no action despite a law created to discourage the illicit behavior.   According to the law approved eight yea...   read more

It took 10 years, as well as officers from the U.S. Marshals, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Puerto Rico, but José Figueroa Agosto is finally behind bars once again.   Alias “Junior” and known as the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean, Ag...   read more

America’s short-term memory troubles have been both a blessing and a curse for President Barack Obama. On the downside is the fact that only 34% of Americans seem to know that the government’s bailout of banks in 2008 was enacted under the Bush ad...   read more

Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission are crowing over the fine levied on Goldman Sachs for allegedly defrauding investors in the 2007 Abacus CDO, saying the $550 million penalty is the largest ever handed down against a Wall Street ...   read more

The deaths of eleven workers in the explosion of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil platform Deepwater Horizon, has highlighted the importance of worker safety on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsib...   read more

More than six months after President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Judith Ann Stock to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), she was finally confirmed on June 17, 2010, and pub...   read more

A native of Washington, DC, John C. Dugan was sworn in as the 29th Comptroller of the Currency in August 2005. On July 8, 2010, he announced that he would step down when his five-year term ends on August 14, 2010. Considering that his job was to r...   read more

Job opportunities are looking up these days…if you’re a broker or investment banker. While most American industries continue to offer little in the way of new employment, Wall Street is hiring.   New York securities firms have added nearly 2,00...   read more

AIG is now on the hook to pay more than $1 billion as a result of lawsuits settled in Ohio over the one-time insurance giant’s illegal business practices. The largest of the settlements, $725 million, is owed to three Ohio pension funds that claim...   read more

Cohen & Slamowitz, a New York law firm that specializes in debt collection, preys upon a system of consumer debts described by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as broken and in need of reform. Although it has only 14 lawyers, Cohen & Slamowitz m...   read more

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently joined the 6th Circuit, 9th Circuit and 4th Circuit in deciding that the Board of Immigration Appeals has jurisdiction despite an immigrant’s deportation. But the 2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit and 11th Circuit ...   read more