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

On February 16, 2010, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Robert Stephen Ford as the next U.S. ambassador to Syria. This was a significant gesture because the United States has been without such an official for five years, e...   read more

On November 17, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Robert A. (Randy) Petzel to be Under Secretary for Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Petzel was officially sworn in by Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki on April 23, 2010, takin...   read more

President Barack Obama can only hope Raul Humberto Yzaguirre, Sr., nominated to serve as ambassador to the Dominican Republic, does not do to him what the outspoken civil rights advocate has done to other presidents, namely blast them in public fo...   read more

A college professor, Indian-American community activist and Democratic Party player, Rajen Anand was chosen by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return to his leadership role at the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in the U.S. Departme...   read more

Tired of the cheap deal enjoyed by mining companies, environmentalists are suing the Department of the Interior over the federal designation of the nation’s largest coal-producing region.   WildEarth Guardians claims that the Powder River Basin,...   read more

Corruption continues to rob struggling Afghans of their currency. The citizens of Afghanistan forked over $1 billion in bribes in 2009—more than double of what was paid in 2007 ($466 million).   A new report from the anti-corruption organization...   read more

By taxing soft drinks and other sugar-filled beverages, the government could help Americans lose weight and reduce the growing problem of obesity, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   Sodas, sports beverages and energy dr...   read more

Three veterans of the U.S. military have joined with seven others in filing a legal challenge to the government’s “no fly” list which seeks to keep terrorist threats from entering the United States. Seven of the ten are U.S. citizens, two are lega...   read more

Despite its own reports documenting abusive behavior by Cambodian military units, the U.S. State Department agreed with the Department of Defense to allow Cambodia to host a military exercise for international peacekeepers.   The “Angkor Sentine...   read more

Despite causing the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, BP is still doing business as usual with the Department of Defense, supplying 80% of the fuel for the American military. Although most of the contracts for the fuel sales were signed before th...   read more

Times are especially bad for dairy farmers across the United States. About 40% of all dairy farms (or 46,000) went out of business over the last 10 years, due to falling milk prices and rising costs. Farmers went from getting $21.70 per hundred po...   read more

Law enforcement officials in the state of Illinois have failed to test as many as 80% of rape kits collected from women who’ve been assaulted since 1995, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.   The human rights group gathered testin...   read more

Census officials must have mixed feelings about this year’s national headcount. On the one hand, more Americans have filled out surveys than during the 2000 Census. On the other hand, more Americans are assaulting U.S. Census Bureau employees than...   read more

Republican Mark Siljander, who represented a Michigan district in Congress during the 1980s, is facing up to 15 years in prison and a fine of half a million dollars for his work helping an Islamic charity deemed a supporter of terrorists.   Afte...   read more

Nearly one-third of all military losses suffered by the United Kingdom in Afghanistan have come in the Sangin district of Helmand Province. Deciding that they have had enough, the British are now planning to pull out of Sangin by the end of this y...   read more

The well that has created the worst oil spill in U.S. history was soon going to be abandoned by BP when the accident on April 20 unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact that the well had been sealed with concrete for “temporary abandonment” promp...   read more