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 Barack Obama’s breaking of the color barrier in presidential politics notwithstanding, many African-American men continue to struggle against racial inequalities in the job market, even for graduating from the nation’s top colleges. Acco...   read more

In an effort to learn how social networking sites can aid the military, Department of Defense researchers sponsored a contest to see who could accurately locate 10 large red balloons released across the United States. First prize ($40,000) went to...   read more

Supporters of a single-payer health care system have not yet given up the fight in the U.S. Senate, where a vote will soon take place on an amendment creating a Medicare-for-all type of system. The plan is the brainchild of Senator Bernie Sanders ...   read more

After more than 50 years of investigations and finding no potential threats, the British government has decided to quietly shut down its UFO office. Officials with the Ministry of Defense, which housed the special investigative unit, felt there wa...   read more

Liberal Democrats in Congress are taking aim at Wall Street with new taxes to help pay down the deficit and stimulate new jobs for the economy. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) are introducing identical measures in...   read more

Instead of seeing the baddest of the bad staring back, customers at a local post office are more likely to see the face of Frank Sinatra or Mickey Mouse on the wall. That’s because the U.S. Postal Service has ditched the longtime tradition of putt...   read more

Cities throughout the South, and especially in Florida, are danger zones for pedestrians—not because of local crime, but because of how streets are designed. A new study by transportation planning experts examined fatalities on foot across the U.S...   read more

In order for journalists to interview employees of the Food and Drug Administration, they must first ask permission of the agency—a requirement deemed unacceptable by numerous organizations representing media professionals. The groups, as well as ...   read more

The days of federal courts in Arizona cattle-calling large numbers of illegal immigrants may be coming to an end. The Ninth Circuit appellate court in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday that Arizona’s federal judges cannot take pleas from 50 to 100 ...   read more

When banks, investment firms, insurance companies and real estate companies spend lavishly on lobbying the federal government, they make sure to hire not just any old lobbyists. Among the 940 ex-federal employees hired to promote the agendas of th...   read more

Next year’s congressional elections in the Philippines will not lack for star power. Manny Pacquiao, the first boxer to win world championships in seven different weight divisions, intends to run again for Congress from the southern province of Sa...   read more

As drug-smuggling tunnels go, the one discovered on Wednesday in Tijuana was not the first in the border town ripe with narcotics trafficking. But it was unusual for having its own elevator. The 1,000-foot tunnel was still under construction when ...   read more

While the media focuses on the number “30,000” (as in the number of new troops being sent to Afghanistan), an even larger number has widely been ignored: 100,000. This figure represents approximately the number of contractors working in the countr...   read more

In an attempt to limit the political fallout from the Salahi controversy, the White House refused to send President Barack Obama’s social secretary to Capitol Hill to testify before a congressional committee. Administration officials announced on ...   read more

In a rare turnabout on law-and-order issues it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are being labeled as soft on crime—and in fact accused of being supportive of rapists—as a result of an amendment authored by U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN). The leg...   read more

Destruction of the CIA tapes revealing the torture of detainees came immediately after news accounts reported the existence of secret prisons overseas, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says CIA cables...   read more