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

Following the post-Thanksgiving Day sales rush in 2008 that killed one of its employees on Long Island, NY, Wal-Mart took a number of steps to ensure that such a tragic event did not occur again at one of its stores. The retail giant also created ...   read more

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s … a car? It’s the Terrafugia Transition!   The world’s first flying car, or driving plane, depending on how you look at it, may soon be available for purchase, and at a cost of only $194,000.   Massachus...   read more

What millions of Americans have known for years, the U.S. government just figured out: It pays to buy in bulk.   To cut down on government spending, the Office of Management and Budget announced that federal agencies will now work together when ...   read more

Oil industry lobbyists are decrying a proposed new tax on the industry to pay for the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico disaster—while at the same time their clients reap huge subsidies from the federal government.   An investigation by The New York...   read more

Teenagers don’t do mornings, a fact that most parents already know. But a study of high school students in Rhode Island found that by starting school a mere 30 minutes later, teenagers were in better moods and more likely to attend class.   The ...   read more

During the financial crisis of 2008, the Department of the Treasury made an outside contractor, Dan Jester, the “point man” on insurance giant AIG, which was teetering towards collapse. Jester’s participation in the decision-making that led to the...   read more

When the state of Georgia ran out of money to pay for an accused individual’s legal defense, a local judge allowed the prosecutor to choose the public defenders who would represent the man facing the death penalty. To make matters worse, the defen...   read more

With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still at the forefront of environmental consciousness, biologists are concerned about China’s plans to begin the first deep-sea mining in international waters. The Deepwater Horizon accident 5,000 feet below the o...   read more

Scientific modeling by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill is likely to reach Southern Florida, although scientists predict that by that time the petroleum will probably have broke...   read more

Unlike other hourly employees in California, farmworkers have been unable to collect overtime pay for more than eight hours of work since World War II. But Democrats in the state legislature have approved legislation that would undo the overtime r...   read more

After leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives decided to ban earmarks for companies, executives figured out creative ways to still receive millions in federal tax dollars. An investigation by The New York Times found the end-around tricks hav...   read more

Oil settling on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon accident is threatening access to historical shipwrecks.   “If this oil congeals on the bottom, it will be dangerous for scuba divers to go down there and explore,” Ste...   read more

The 10 months that Marty Redding Jr. spent fighting the Germans during World War II was nothing compared to the battle the Florida resident has fought over seven decades with the Department of Veterans Affairs.   Despite a VA doctor’s diagnosis ...   read more

What’s the difference between “combat operations” and “stability operations?” Other than one word, not much, when it comes to the U.S. military role in Iraq.   Next month, the U.S. will officially end combat operations in the country it invaded ...   read more

Wachovia bank recently reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to settle charges that it allowed drug cartels to launder more than $378 billion through exchange houses it owned in Mexico from 2004 to 2007. Wachovia, now owned by Wells Fargo,...   read more

The first signs of the gulf oil spill entering the food chain have been found in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs, say scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University. The introduction of oil into crab specie...   read more