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

There simply is no comparing al-Qaeda to the U.S. military, write Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch.com. At its potential mightiest, al-Qaeda numbers a few thousand fighters spread throughout the world—a force one-fifth the size of Amer...   read more

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), created to manage the federal government’s bailout of Wall Street, is supposed to conclude this October, but issues stemming from the unprecedented rescue operation are likely to linger long past that. In ...   read more

Wal-Mart may be able to beat competitors’ prices, but it can’t match others’ generosity. The world’s largest retail chain has pledged to donate $500,000 to the victims of the Haiti earthquake, as well as aid kits valued at $100,000. This combined ...   read more

In case you happen to be wandering down the street, pass a tall, 50-something Middle Eastern gentleman sporting a long gray beard, and wonder, “Was that?….” the FBI has released age-enhanced photographs of Osama bin Laden to help the public recogn...   read more

The unemployment rate may in double digits and foreclosures may be on the rise, but over at JPMorgan Chase life is good.   To hear Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, tell it, his bank could have done better last year, a...   read more

Public universities are increasingly giving more financial aid to students from relatively wealthy families instead of lower income homes in order to recruit academic achievers and boost the school’s reputation. The Education Trust, a nonprofit ad...   read more

The federal investigation into the financial crisis of 2008 received its first mea culpa from Wall Street on Wednesday. Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that his bank engaged in “improper” behavio...   read more

Iraq wants to rival Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer, and American corporations are happy to help Baghdad get there. With the Iraqi government ready to rebuild and expand its petroleum industry, some of the biggest oil drilling and sup...   read more

If Google does pull out of China, it will yield its 36% market share to rival Baidu, a Chinese Internet portal and search service that’s not as “home grown” as Beijing claims. Baidu got to where it is today, controlling 58% of the Chinese Net sear...   read more

A former police officer and FBI agent, Erroll Southers has spent the last several years helping run security for one of the world’s busiest airports—Los Angeles International — while also teaching classes and working at an anti-terrorism center fo...   read more

Porn has been bad for The Beaver. As Canada’s venerable historical journal, The Beaver spent 90 years educating Canadians about important people and events of the past, but the modern euphemism “beaver” forced publishers of the magazine to change ...   read more

With Haiti in shambles from the recent 7.0 earthquake, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to temporarily halt all deportations to the island nation. Approximately 30,000 Haitians living illegally in the U.S. were subject to arrest and...   read more

With refugee crises unfolding on every inhabited continent, the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has its work cut out for it. New Bureau Director Eric P. Schwartz, who was confirmed June 19, 2009, has broad experience ...   read more

The public will have to wait eight years to find out the details of the AIG bailout that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner oversaw in 2008 while running the New York operation of the Federal Reserve. Last May, the Securities and Exchange Commi...   read more

Google, which previously caved into demands by China’s government to censor Internet searches in order to enter the Chinese market, is now threatening to pull out of the country altogether. Beijing’s atrocious record on human rights did not keep G...   read more

Use a cell phone to videotape a police arrest and go to jail. That’s what has happened to some Massachusetts residents who have tried to capture images of police apprehending criminal suspects.   Jon Surmacz pulled out his phone to record police...   read more