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

Not only did economic growth and job opportunities plummet during the Great Recession, but so did illegal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security has released new statistics showing the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. fell f...   read more

Blackwater, the controversial security firm responsible for numerous shootings and deaths of civilians, has been kicked out of Iraq. About 250 former and current employees of the company, which now operates under the name Xe, were told they had se...   read more

A movement calling itself the “Robin Hood Tax” wants world leaders to tax banks and other financial institutions that gamble with speculative investments, the kind helped bring about the 2008 economic crisis. Supporters of the tax claim it could r...   read more

American tax dollars are being spent on the construction or maintenance of approximately 700 military or security bases in Afghanistan, raising questions about President Barack Obama’s promise to begin pulling out of the country next year. An asse...   read more

Melanie Sloan, head of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, in Washington, put it best when she remarked that it’s not a crime to be a hypocrite in Washington, DC. If it were, a lot of lawmakers would be in trouble, especiall...   read more

The first military trial of a Guantánamo detainee under President Barack Obama is likely to feature a young Canadian who was only 15 when captured in Afghanistan in 2002. Omar Khadr was seized by U.S. Special Forces following an attack on an Afgha...   read more

The potential prison time continues to grow for those accused of being involved in the biggest insider trading scandal ever involving hedge funds. Federal prosecutors this week submitted a revised indictment against Raj Rajaratnam, a former portfo...   read more

Doling out $700 billion to bail out banks required a lot of manpower, according to the Department of the Treasury, which turned to private accounting and legal firms to help run the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). But there are concerns that...   read more

Making fun of Mexico is okay, as long as it’s not aired in Mexico. The Mexican subsidiary of MTV decided recently not to broadcast an episode of South Park in which the president of Mexico, who resembled current leader Felipe Calderón but was not ...   read more

While Democrats in Washington grapple to revive their healthcare reform plans, the nation’s hospitals and emergency rooms face an even greater struggle helping the uninsured who regularly show up at their doors. Legally obligated to treat anyone w...   read more

Leaders in Pakistan have been vehemently denying claims started by a religious leader that security company Xe, formerly Blackwater, has thousands of contractors working in the nation’s capital of Islamabad. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, leader of Jami...   read more

Federal employees, who enjoy a variety of benefits as government workers, are not getting a deal on generic drugs from the CVS chain of pharmacies if they belong to Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans. A review of drug pricing by a group...   read more

Would a tax by any other name smell the same to Americans? That’s what psychological researchers at Columbia University wanted to find out when they asked 898 taxpayers about hypothetical plans to help the environment by taxing products that spew ...   read more

It wasn’t until he was thrown into prison for armed robbery that Shon R. Hopwood found his calling in life. While serving a 10-year sentence for holding up banks in rural Nebraska, Johnson spent time in the prison law library, where he studied pro...   read more

There is no truly safe way for consumers to dispose of unwanted medications, according to officials in Maine, which has led to a push for legislation requiring the pharmaceutical industry to collect and destroy leftover drugs.   For years Americ...   read more

For some Americans it’s no questions asked. Bring your millions of dollars looted from foreign treasuries and spend lavishly in the United States, or simply stuff it into domestic bank accounts, including bundles of cash smuggled in on the perso...   read more