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

American soldiers have been going it alone in Iraq since last summer, when the last partners of President George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” pulled out. But the name, Multinational Force Iraq, didn’t officially change until the New Year f...   read more

The United States lost 45,000 businesses in 2009, including some that had been around for more than 100 years. CNNMoney.com featured a half dozen of the centurys-old companies that went under last year.   Holcomb’s Education Resource of Clevelan...   read more

Approximately 17,000 different chemicals used by private industry in the United States are kept secret, leaving the public and most government officials in the dark about the physical properties and potential dangers posed to Americans. This situa...   read more

Credit card issuers are producing new fees and deals to make up for the $50 billion in revenue they expect to lose as a result of the Credit Card Act of 2009. Some store-based cards, like those offered by sporting-goods chain Gander Mountain, will...   read more

As if selling complex, volatile investment deals weren’t bad enough, Goldman Sachs utilized off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands to help themselves and other Wall Street institutions hide the true nature of their high-stakes schemes that contr...   read more

Former Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff has been all over the airwaves since the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, advising the nation that it should invest in full-body scanners for airports. What Chertoff fail...   read more

Brits who decided to spend New Year’s Eve at the Tan Hill Inn got more than they had hoped for, thanks to inclement weather. Heavy snow falls forced revelers to spend not one, not two but three nights at the pub once roads were closed due to drift...   read more

Iraqis were stunned to learn last week that charges against five Blackwater guards accused of the September 16, 2007, killing of 17 civilians and wounding of 20 have been dropped completely.   The federal government’s mishandling of the Blackwat...   read more

Background In a recent survey conducted by the well-respected Field Poll, 56% of registered voters in the state of California said that they favored legalization of marijuana and only 32% opposed it. Because a bill was introduced in the State Ass...   read more

If the health care reform plan crafted by the Senate becomes law, Nebraska will be a big winner, while some of the nation’s most populous states and labor unions will lose out. Nebraska is set to receive an extra $100 million in Medicaid funds und...   read more

Fed up with the greed and recklessness of large national banks, critics of Wall Street are pointing to North Dakota as an alternative for reshaping the banking industry. North Dakota is the only state in the country to own its own bank, the Bank ...   read more

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is patents that make new businesses a reality in a world of contracts and laws. Patent applications, however, are backing up at the federal office in charge of processing them, thanks to repeated bu...   read more

It took six years and 10 months, but the United States finally made it through a month in Iraq without an American soldier dying in combat. December 2009 was the first time since the invasion in March 2003 that no U.S. troop succumbed to injuries ...   read more

The year 2009 was an improvement as far as global wars were concerned, according to the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research. The institute’s annual conflict analysis found there were a total of 365 political trouble spots in 2...   read more

The decade closed out with mixed results for police officers killed in the line of duty. The good news for 2009 was a 7% drop from the previous year in law enforcement deaths, with a total of 124 reported. That figured represented the lowest numbe...   read more

Since 2006-2007, when several high-profile accidents captured national attention, mining-related deaths have dropped in each of the last two years, down to the lowest levels ever recorded. Thirty-four miners died on the job last year, and 52 in 20...   read more