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

In a move described as “pretty nervy” by one White House official, the leaders of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup did not show up in person on Monday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. The three bank executives said their fligh...   read more

Holiday treats came early this year for the health insurance industry—not from Santa Claus but from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT). The stock prices of major insurers rose on Monday after Lieberman threatened to join Republicans and delay consi...   read more

Uncle Sam has a hard time getting his own employees to pay their taxes. More than $3 billion is owed by U.S. government workers from 2008, an amount only slightly smaller than that of the previous year ($3.6 billion).   More than 276,000 employe...   read more

For the first time, YouTube has compiled official lists of the most watched videos and the most watched music videos. First place in the first category went, not surprisingly, to Susan Boyle’s debut performance on Britain’s Got Talent, which earne...   read more

Six years after the problem was first discovered, computer experts have located 22 million emails that became lost during the Bush administration. The discovery followed lawsuits filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)...   read more

With a near monopoly over the biotech gene market covering soybeans and corn, Monsanto has been able to dictate the terms of business for rivals who use the agribusiness’s genetically modified seeds. After obtaining confidential contracts, the Ass...   read more

Having decided not to meddle in the private affairs of homosexuals, the New Hampshire legislature is deciding whether to but out of the bedrooms of consenting heterosexuals. Representatives Timothy Horrigan (D) and Carol McGuire (R) are sponsor...   read more

The party once again could be over on Wall Street, depending on how the market responds next year to a decline in the “dollar carry trade.” Since the Federal Reserve last year lowered interest rates to near zero, investors have been borrowing the ...   read more

When detainee Mohammed Al-Adahi testified via secure video link in June from Guantánamo Bay, the Department of Defense was supposed to record his testimony, on orders from U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler. Al-Adahi was testifying remotely for hi...   read more

What a person earns isn’t as important as what they bring to society, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF). The self-described “think-and-do tank” examined a range of high- and low-paying jobs in British society and concluded that banke...   read more

House Democrats narrowly passed a Wall Street reform plan on Friday, sending to the Senate a mixed bag of changes that was both praised and criticized by consumer advocates. Detractors of the financial industry were happy with the idea of creating...   read more

First there was “astroturfing”—the creation of phony grass roots movements that give politicians the impression of popular feelings on an issue. Now, there’s “virtual-turfing,” in which the health insurance industry is using online games to get Fa...   read more

Following up on President Barack Obama’s pledge to focus illegal immigration crackdowns on violent criminals, 400 agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service last week conducted its largest sweep ever of dangerous undocumente...   read more

Since NBC doesn’t bother to point out the conflicts of interest held by oft-used military analyst Barry McCaffrey, Huffington Post and others have. McCaffrey has appeared on the network’s cable subsidiary, MSNBC, no less than 10 times in the past ...   read more

It took a federal employee contest for the Department of Veterans Affairs to realize that throwing out medicine constitutes a waste of money. Last spring, President Barack Obama asked government employees to submit their cost-savings ideas to make...   read more

Even though growth in the U.S. prison population has been declining this decade, the total number of people behind bars still is greater than the number of Americans living in almost one quarter of the states. From 2007 to 2008 the prison populati...   read more