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

Already outnumbered by its adversarial neighbor’s army, South Korea is experimenting with using armed robots to help guard the demilitarized zone that divides the country from North Korea. South Korea currently has 655,000 troops to defend itself ...   read more

A strong majority of Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is going badly and want Washington to establish a timetable for bringing home U.S forces. But despite negative opinions about the war among voters, Congress continues to oppose setting ...   read more

For residents of the Northeast wondering if the extreme heat they’ve endured this summer is above normal, the answer is yes. According to experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 is on pace to become the warmest ...   read more

Most confirmation hearings for ambassador nominees go off without a hitch. But this was not the case with Thomas A. Shannon Jr., President Barack Obama’s choice for ambassador to Brazil.   The veteran diplomat irked Republican Senator Charles Gr...   read more

Theodore W. (Ted) Tozer, President Barack Obama’s choice to take the helm as President of the Government National Mortgage Association, also known as Ginnie Mae, was sworn in February 24, 2010. Established by Congress in 1968, Ginnie Mae was desig...   read more

Steve L. Muro, who was named Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs on January 21, 2009, has spent more than 30 years working for the nation’s military cemeteries, rising from auto mechanic to acting head of the National Cemetery Administrati...   read more

BP’s oil disaster is threatening to choke off the oxygen in some portions of the Gulf of Mexico as a result of too much natural gas having leaked from the broken well. Scientists have found natural gas levels accumulating at a rate of 100,000 time...   read more

GlaxoSmithKline got some very bad news this week from an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it voted to restrict the sales of Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug. Concerned about reports of the drug causing heart atta...   read more

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, it’s a great time to buy a house if you have a near-perfect credit record, or to refinance a home loan if you have equity. But for the millions of Americans struggling to get by or just find a job, ge...   read more

The nation’s worst oil spill disaster involved a company that cut corners to boost profits, failsafe systems that just failed, backup plans that never existed and federal regulators who were too close to industry. A summation of the current Gulf o...   read more

Computer mouses may become a thing of the past, with the invention of an infrared system that allows a user’s hand to do all the pointing and clicking necessary on a computer. The technology, created by Pranav Mistry at MIT, tracks a person’s hand...   read more

Two percent. That’s how much of the aid promised by the United States that so far has been given to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.   “Only 2 percent of promised reconstruction aid has been deliver...   read more

National League victories in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game are always a welcome sight for Republicans running for Congress. Since 1950, all nine elections in which the Republican Party enjoyed double-digit gains in the U.S. House of Repres...   read more

Unhappy with the city council’s budget cuts, the policy chief of Oakland, California, has threatened to stop sending officers in response to certain crimes. With 80 police officers laid off after the city and the local union were unable to reach a...   read more

Shan Zhu Qiu, an immigrant from China who fled his native country out of fear of persecution over his Falun Gong practice, has been given a second opportunity to stay in the United States. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on July 12 ordered im...   read more

Conservatives can rail all they want about the liberalism of President Barack Obama, but the truth is the man in the White House is much more like GOP idol Ronald Reagan than Democratic icon Franklin Roosevelt, says Bob Samuels, president of the U...   read more