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

President Obama has turned to a strong supporter with lengthy experience in pipeline law and regulation to serve as the new Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), which is responsible for protecting th...   read more

With his first year coming to a close, President Barack Obama finds himself with an impressive score of 75-9…when it comes to promises kept vs. promises broken. The scorecard has been compiled by PolitiFact, a project of the St. Petersburg Times t...   read more

As the first decade of the 21st century winds to a close, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker has remarked that there are at least 10 major lingering questions from the “war on terror” that so far have gone unanswered.   Here are short summaries of May...   read more

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s imprint on the health care reform plan extends well beyond the work of the senator himself. The Democrat from Nevada is among the leaders of those lawmakers with the most former staffers who have gone on to lobb...   read more

India and Venezuela are not happy about their famous locales where it’s all about the water. In India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, locals are concerned about the dwindling rainfall in Cherrapunjee, one of the world’s rainiest places. Instead...   read more

If state governments are interested in revising their prison systems, not just to save money but also to return convicts to society and keep them there, then Michigan should be a model to follow, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (AC...   read more

Imagine the Taliban arrived in Connecticut, ready to attack the surrounding Northeast, and the government sent only a few hundred troops to patrol the state’s borders to keep the enemy at bay. That is comparable to what a small detachment of U.S. ...   read more

Getting arrested in the United States on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant can result in “disappearing” into a clandestine maze of detention centers run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service. An investigation by Amnesty In...   read more

An examination of online browsing habits by teens and children has revealed some disturbing results. Among children 7-years-old and younger, the top three most popular websites were YouTube, Google and Facebook. So far, so good. But then, at No. 4...   read more

The census taken every 10 years by the U.S. government is much more than just an exercise in counting heads. It is responsible for either spending or distributing billions of dollars throughout the country and into the economy, something a recessi...   read more

Television coverage of federal court proceedings is a rare occurrence, but next month the sprawling Ninth Circuit will begin experimenting with cameras in courtrooms. The nation’s largest appellate court—which covers Alaska, Arizona, California, H...   read more

Banks are making profits off those collecting unemployment benefits. Here’s how: instead of printing unemployment checks, states are increasingly contracting with big banks (Citibank, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America) to issue jobl...   read more

Minority-owned small businesses have largely been shut out of the federal government’s economic recovery plan. Using information obtained from the Small Business Administration (SBA), New America Media (NAM) found that more than 90% of loans funde...   read more

U.S. Army Major General Anthony Cucolo III, commander of American forces in northern Iraq, is tired of losing valuable female troops to pregnancies. So he has decreed that any soldier under his command who gets pregnant, or impregnates another sol...   read more

For those consumers who want to know what it’s really like to be gouged by a credit card company, check out First Premier Bank. The subprime credit card issuer is experimenting with a new card that hits customers with a 79.9% interest rate.   Ye...   read more

Americans are working longer hours and making less money, according to the latest figures compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From October to November, real average hourly earnings fell 0.5%, thanks to a modest rise in inflation that offse...   read more