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

When it comes to government programs that provide medical care and inspect food, the White House has been slow to appoint leaders. A year into the Obama administration and the $450-billion Medicare program is without someone to run it, leaving the...   read more

Mozart does wonders for the human body. Following up on earlier research that found the symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart helped boost the intelligence levels of college students, a group of pediatricians decided to apply the “Mozart effect” t...   read more

John McLaughlin, President Barack Obama’s choice to uncover the intelligence failures surrounding the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt and the Fort Hood shootings, has been called one of the brightest minds of the intelligence community. But ...   read more

The Federal Reserve continues to block attempts by the business newswire Bloomberg to obtain the names of banks rescued by the federal government since the beginning of the financial crisis. Bloomberg won a lower court ruling that instructed the F...   read more

Brandon Neely did not enjoy his time spent at Camp X-Ray, where he says the U.S. abused many of the suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay naval facility. An Army specialist, Neely was one of the guards who kept watch over detainees like Ruhal...   read more

With thousands of wounded troops in need of special housing after leaving the hospital, the U.S. Army has decided to spend $1.2 billion to build specialized barracks and transition centers for soldiers facing an average of seven months of recovery...   read more

Two missing letters from an intelligence document cost John Dullahan his spy job with the Department of Defense, he claims in a lawsuit filed against much of the intelligence community. Dullahan, who spent two decades serving as an Army intelligen...   read more

As a congressman from Michigan for the last 54 years, Democrat John Dingell Jr. has paid close attention to the needs of his state’s flagship industry: automobile manufacturing. But Dingell’s relationship with one of the Big Three automakers has t...   read more

Efforts by Americans to pay down their debts have not yielded more available credit. The Federal Reserve has reported that consumer credit plunged $17.5 billion in November, as banks continued to pull back on lending. From September 2008 through N...   read more

At least nine churches in Malaysia have been vandalized this month since the country’s highest court overturned a ban on the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims. Malaysia’s High Court ruled in favor of the Catholic Church on December 31, allowi...   read more

Unable to use lead in products it sells to the United States, manufacturers of children’s jewelry in China are turning instead to cadmium—a heavy metal known to cause cancer. The Associated Press had a laboratory test a random sampling of Chinese-...   read more

A U.S. Supreme Court ban on executions of mentally-retarded murderers has not stopped Texas from keeping such convicts on Death Row. In Atkins v. Virginia, the high court in 2002 left it to states to decide their own definition of retarded, creati...   read more

The climate for judges and prosecutors who work for the U.S. government has turned dangerous recently. Threats have more than doubled within the past five years, according to a new study by the Department of Justice’s inspector general that examin...   read more

Ken Brown, a shareholder of Goldman Sachs, claims the firm is supposed to spend about 50% of its net revenue on salaries and bonuses. But in 2008 Goldman dished out $4.82 billion in bonuses despite earnings of only $2.32 billion..In the first quar...   read more

Have no fear “Lost” fans, the President of the United States will not be messing with your season premiere. Ever since the White House indicated that President Barack Obama might move back his State of the Union (SOTU) address from late January ...   read more

As required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, the Department of Justice conducted its first-ever study to determine how many minors are being sexually assaulted in prison. After surveying more than 26,000 incarcerated youths (91% male, 9...   read more