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

Iran, selected to host the 2nd Annual Islamic Solidarity Games, insisted that maps promoting the sporting event show the Persian Gulf with that very name. But Arab participants insisted on “Arabian Gulf” for the name of the strategic waterway tha...   read more

President Obama has turned to a veteran civil rights attorney, Jacqueline A. Berrien, to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent agency responsible for eliminating all forms of discrimination in the workplace. Although she...   read more

Mr. Merdle and Mr. Potter would be right at home today confronting the roiling contempt many Americans hold for bankers and financial schemers. More than 150 years ago, Charles Dickens created the character of Mr. Merdle in the serial novel Little...   read more

In an attempt to make operations more efficient, the IRS has turned responsibility for detecting fraudulent tax refund claims over to an office filled with inexperienced employees. A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General of Tax Adm...   read more

Tobacco companies have been secretly meeting with the Department of Justice to convince government lawyers to settle the landmark lawsuit first brought against the industry in the 1990s. According to the Associated Press, lawyers for Philip Morris...   read more

World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian organization, does not hide its employment policy. To work for the billion-dollar charity, except on a temporary basis, one must be a Christian. This religious-based hiring preference has drawn...   read more

If Haitians displaced by the earthquake are willing to try life on a different continent, there is a new home awaiting them in Senegal. President Abdoulaye Wade has offered to give Haitians land in his African nation, after first promising to dona...   read more

For the first time in legislative history, a group of lawmakers in the U.S. have approved a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by adults. By a 4-3 vote, the California Legislature’s Assembly Public Safety Committee approved AB 390, ...   read more

Americans are waiting longer than ever to try matrimony for the first time. Statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau show the medina age of men who have their first wedding is now 28.1 years old, and for women it’s 25.9. In both cases, the ag...   read more

Francis S. Collins brings one of the more eclectic, and highly regarded, profiles to the Obama administration as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A leading figure in the completion of the Human Genome Project, which is consider...   read more

Having had his first pick (Homer Wilkes) back out as Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, President Barack Obama turned to Harris Sherman, Colorado’s longtime natural resources chief. Sherman...   read more

Telling the financial industry it’s time to meet its responsibilities and help cover the cost of the federal bailout, President Barack Obama this week unveiled his tax on big banks to recoup almost $100 billion in costs. The tax would last 10 year...   read more

The United States should take advantage of the near-miss terrorist attack on Christmas Day and seriously consider large scale reforms to airport security, says Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. May offers up ...   read more

Just as it did in 2000 and prior decennial periods, the federal government this year is using the term “Negro” on forms for the 2010 Census. But the word is creating opposition among younger African-Americans who consider Negro not just outdated, ...   read more

Yet another Chicagoan tapped by President Barack Obama, Fay Hartog Levin is a longtime Democratic activist and fundraiser and an early supporter of the president’s who also has family roots in the Netherlands. Levin was sworn in August 13, 2009, a...   read more

The state of Utah wants nothing to do with 1,600 tons of low-level nuclear waste from Italy that a local U.S. corporation is trying to bury in a landfill. EnergySolutions Inc. has been trying for two years to import the radioactive waste, but Utah...   read more