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

The United States system for detaining illegal immigrants is a mess, filled with examples of unlawful arrests of citizens and legal residents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to multiple investigations from governme...   read more

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will offer e-readers in 2010 to its primary school students as it plans to further digitalize education and promote reading. The e-readers are essential components of Taiwan’s five-year $1.55 billion dollar program d...   read more

Since the end of the Cold War, a small group of American arms control inspectors has been stationed in Votkinsk, Russia, to verify how many new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are produced by the United States’ former adversary. But as...   read more

Insurance company Aetna thinks it’s better off by scaring away customers. Company officials plan to hike premiums next year to reverse the downward trend of Aetna’s profit margin, which fell from 11.1% in 2007 to 6.9% in the third quarter of 2009....   read more

DuPont has known since 1984 that its chemical plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was polluting local water supplies in nearby Washington County, Ohio, but did not tell local residents or do anything to correct the problem, according to environme...   read more

Surfing the Internet can sometimes feel like playing Russian roulette when visiting websites for the first time, because of the growing risk of encountering viruses or other malware with a simple click of a mouse. One way to minimize this risk is ...   read more

Participating in secret military operations has meant falling into a bureaucratic void for some American service members unable to draw on veterans benefits. For about 50 members of the 707th Airlift Squadron, which flew some of the first missions...   read more

If the United States is going to send another 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, which means billions of dollars more in costs, then the government should have the ability to pay for it, instead of just borrowing more money or robbing other programs ...   read more

“Derivatives” is just another word for gambling, as far as U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is concerned, so she wants anti-gambling laws applied to Wall Street in an effort to end the era of “casino capitalism.” In the wake of last year’s finan...   read more

Two of the nation’s most respected newspapers have expressed through their editorial pages a diametrical position from that of the general public on the Afghanistan war, according to an analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). A majo...   read more

Mike McTimoney has the distinction of becoming the first Tweeter-in-residence in the United Kingdom, following his hiring by the town of Darlington in County Durham in the northeast of England. McTimoney, an IT lecturer at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Fo...   read more

School officials in Addyston, Ohio, are suing a foreign-owned plastics company over cancer-causing air pollution from a local factory that forced the closure of an elementary school four years ago. Meredith Hitchens Elementary was shuttered in 200...   read more

Millions of secret government documents are scheduled to be declassified at the end of this year—unless President Barack Obama extends the deadline like his predecessors have done. Reports out of Washington indicate the White House is hurriedly pr...   read more

There’s no denying the importance of coal to the nation’s energy supply, providing nearly half of the electricity used by Americans. But a group of medical researchers has decided to make clear the price that the human body pays for the U.S. relyi...   read more

Alexander Stern of Los Angeles can’t play Sony’s role-playing video games like EverQuest because of his disabilities, so he’s suing the company under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Due to problems with his eyesight and “multiple learning dis...   read more

While the Maldives chose to go down (underwater) to draw attention to the dangers of global warming, Nepal has selected to go up—way up. This week, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will lead his senior ministers up Mount Everest to conduct the hi...   read more