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

Mircea Geoana, candidate for president of Romania and former Romanian ambassador to the United States, has accused his rival, incumbent Traian Basescu, of employing a parapsychologist who directed a “negative energy attack” against Geoana. Geoana ...   read more

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the right of “personhood” for corporations and unions, and allowing them unlimited spending in elections appears to have had an immediate effect on the next presidential contest in 2012.   Previous pol...   read more

After more than six years in country, the U.S. Marines are finally leaving Iraq. A ceremony this weekend formally marked the changeover with elements of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Armored Division assuming responsibility fo...   read more

Had President Barack Obama kept his promise following his inauguration, this week would have marked the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Instead, media stories reported that a special task force created by Obama has recommended...   read more

Heavy job losses during the current recession have caused the ranks of private-sector unions to plummet, resulting in government employees becoming the largest unionized force in the United States. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics s...   read more

An American astronaut orbiting high above the earth has posted the first ever message to Twitter—for real, this time. Thanks to the installation of new software aboard the International Space Station, astronaut T.J. Creamer managed to post a messa...   read more

In this age of energy efficiency, it is comforting to know that the world’s longest burning light bulb has been around since just after the turn of the century—the 20th century that is. At the Livermore-Pleasanton fire station No. 6 in Northern Ca...   read more

The headline on the press release for the ABC News/Washington Post poll released on January 18 read “High Support for Medical Marijuana.” The results emphasized that 81% of Americans support legalizing the medical use of marijuana and 56% think do...   read more

Appearing before a congressional committee investigating the Christmas Day bomb attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers this week that a special anti-terrorism unit known as the “High Val...   read more

Using what it calls a “completely unscientific but accurate statistical equation,” the Advocate magazine has compiled a list of the 15 gayest cities in the United States. The point of the ranking is to show how homosexuals are continuing to becom...   read more

Macho B, the last known surviving jaguar in the United States, was euthanized early last year after being caught in a trap intentionally set by Arizona wildlife officials. A federal investigation found that the jaguar was captured in a leg-hold sn...   read more

Military veterans William Hauser and Jerome Slater want to bring back the draft—the likes of which America has never experienced. Hauser, a retired Army colonel and Vietnam veteran, and Slater, professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Buffa...   read more

President Barack Obama appointed a new ambassador for the South American nation of Suriname, a relatively prosperous country in northern South America with a fairly well-developed mining and manufacturing sector, whose population is almost evenly ...   read more

President Obama has chosen a career diplomat, Judith (Judy) G. Garber, to represent the U.S. as ambassador to Latvia, the first career diplomat to the small Baltic nation since Brian E. Carlson served in Riga from 2001 to 2004. Garber’s two immedi...   read more

The former head of Somalia’s military is now the focus of a potential landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court which will decide whether foreign officials now living in the country can be subject to U.S. law.   Mohamed Ali Samantar, once Soma...   read more

The American suburb is losing its luster as the symbol of middle-class comfort and prosperity. The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program says poverty is significantly up in the ‘burbs, growing by 25% from 9.9 million people in 2000 t...   read more