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

Sometimes a political contributor can give handsomely to the losing side and still come out a winner. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis is one such example. Daughter of a real estate tycoon and California political player, Tsakopoulos Kounalakis raised...   read more

As the South goes with its public schools so goes the rest of the nation, and that could lead to significant challenges for the U.S. economy. More than half of all public school students in the South are poor and members of a minority group—the fi...   read more

Exposure to lead at an early age can result in higher risks of committing crimes as an adult, according to researchers in Cincinnati, Ohio. Experts from the University of Cincinnati spent 30 years working on their study, following the offspring of...   read more

Some Republicans are taking revisionist history to a new and bizarre partisan level in their attempts to convince the American people that GOP leaders are good at protecting the country from terrorism, while Democrats aren’t. On Friday, former New...   read more

Like those who served before him in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama intends to disregard certain parts of new laws adopted by Congress—only in a quieter and less transparent manner. In the first half of 2009, Obama issued several “signing ...   read more

California Highway Patrol (CHP) Sergeant Richard Fuentes thought he had made a successful drug bust when he caught Saguro Doven, 33, with 60 pounds of marijuana in his car. But Doven claimed at his trial that he was transporting the pot as part of...   read more

The great Chihuahua airlift has begun. Flooded with thousands of the tiny dogs, animal shelters in California have made arrangements to ship Chihuahuas to the East Coast, where there’s plenty of demand for and little supply of the animals.   Rec...   read more

Specialist Marc Hall, aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was looking forward to the end of his U.S. Army service in February and never going back to Iraq, when commanders decided to “stop-loss” him—the policy that allows military officials to keep ...   read more

Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since July 2002, has been ordered released by a federal judge who said Hatim’s confessions of being a terrorist were tainted by torture. U.S. officials have insisted Hatim was part of al-Qae...   read more

When local governments need more cash, cities and counties look for new ways to raise revenue. Some municipalities have turned to shortening yellow lights at intersections in order to catch more people running red lights, and thus generate more tr...   read more

Today, there are only 100 panthers left alive in the state of Florida. The precariously low total makes the death of any of the native cats a cause for concern, which is why one conservation group is especially alarmed about the number of panthers...   read more

Bank robberies could become a thing of the past if financial institutions follow the lead of those in Illinois. Two years ago, banks in that state began inserting GPS tracking devices into bundles of bills, and since then, robberies have declined....   read more

On April 3, 2009, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Martha Johnson to be the next Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency that provides procurement services to federal agencies, manages c...   read more

After failing to gain political support for the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), President Barack Obama turned to congressional aide Da...   read more

President Obama rewarded one of his most prominent conservative Catholic supporters by nominating Douglas W. Kmiec to be ambassador to Malta, a tiny Mediterranean island nation with an overwhelmingly Catholic population and little present-day stra...   read more

Since March 2009, the elected Chair of the United States Access Board has been Douglas J. Anderson. The Board is an independent Federal agency that works to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities. It operates with about thirty staff and...   read more