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

Congress often is loath to make tough fiscal decisions that may spur anger from constituents, which is why a plan was devised to create a special bipartisan commission that would craft a solution to reduce the nation’s ballooning deficit. But when...   read more

Some voices on the left are calling for President Barack Obama to borrow from FDR’s legacy and reestablish the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to lower unemployment and help the environment. The CCC was revolutionary for its time when...   read more

Special prosecutor Neil Barofsky, charged by the Department of the Treasury with investigating the federal government’s bailout of Wall Street in 2008, is now turning his attention to the rescue of AIG by the New York branch of the Federal Reserve...   read more

Frontier Foundation, established seven years ago by Congressman Steve Buyer (R-Indiana) to award scholarships, has yet to help any students, but it has financed Buyer’s golf game. Buyer’s foundation has collected more than $800,000, while not givi...   read more

Seeking a way to help alleviate his state’s chronic budget shortfall and prison overcrowding, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested on Monday sending illegal immigrant prisoners to Mexico to save money. The Republican governor appare...   read more

American society has become more rigid than Canada’s when it comes to advancing economically. While Americans have long believed in the notion that they can rise up from poor to rich, a report by the Pew Economic Mobility Project says it’s gotten ...   read more

Being compared to Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t go over well with Heartland Inns of America. The hotel chain fired clerk Brenna Lewis because she was considered too masculine looking and lacked “the Midwestern girl look.” Lewis sued her former employer,...   read more

The death of British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly in July 2003 was sufficient to raise questions, coming only days after it was revealed he had challenged one of the major claims for invading Iraq four months earlier. Now, the fact that details ...   read more

If the various pieces of the healthcare reform legislation in Congress are taken apart and considered separately, Americans are in favor of most everything. But when they are asked about the complete package, reactions seem to range from disappoin...   read more

FBI agents relied on everything from requests written on post-it notes to chummy relationships with phone company workers to illegally access phone records from 2003-2006, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general. An investi...   read more

In order to protect the earth from devastating collisions with objects from outer space, scientists must first know what’s out there—which may take longer than anticipated unless the federal government appropriates more money. This finding is one ...   read more

British television is set to make history on January 27 when it airs the first movie filmed entirely by chimpanzees. The film is the product of an 18-month research project by primatologist Betsy Herrelko, who filmed her 11 subjects through “Chimp...   read more

In more than 60 years of data collecting, the unemployment gap between men and women has never been wider. As of the end of the third quarter in 2009, the jobless rate for men was 10.5% and 8.7% for women, according to the Economic Policy Institut...   read more

The FBI’s use of the so-called “comparative bullet lead analysis” has been discredited by federal research, forcing the law enforcement agency to review nearly 2,500 convictions that may have been aided by the now debunked theory.   First develo...   read more

Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, received two home loans worth more than $1 million from Bank of America last summer while helping oversee the bank’s federal bailout, raising questions of conflict of interest. The di...   read more

Shopping in the District of Columbia became more expensive as of January 1 because of a new mandatory five-cent tax on grocery bags. Local officials imposed the first-in-the-nation tax as part of DC’s Skip the Bag, Save the River campaign to clean...   read more