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

For several years, William Bowden of Cary, North Carolina, had been in a dispute with the town government over damage done to his property by water runoff from a road project. In July 2009, he grew fed up with the lack of response from local offic...   read more

When it comes to playing the stock market, members of Congress know how to pick ‘em. Over the past three decades lawmakers have increasingly invested in stocks and bonds with little regard for potential conflicts of interest that may arise from pa...   read more

At least eighteen journalists were among those massacred on Monday in the Philippines at the hands of armed men loyal to a local mayor and police chief. The reporters were traveling with a group of supporters of Esmael Mangudadatu, a politician se...   read more

Seven years and $3 billion later, the Department of Homeland Security is still relying on technology at U.S. ports and border crossings that can’t distinguish bananas from a nuclear bomb being smuggled into the country. By now, federal officials w...   read more

All Erika Schmidt tried to do, she says, was help disadvantaged people get back on their feet. That would have been fine had she not helped the less fortunate by stealing money from the rich, earning her the moniker the Robin Hood of Germany.   ...   read more

Soldiers returning home from war with disabilities are entitled to special access to government contracts if they want to start their own business after leaving the military. But getting these contracts can be difficult if the government bungles t...   read more

It perhaps won’t come as a shock to learn that the violence in many of today’s most popular video games would be considered a violation of international humanitarian law, were the events depicted real. Two Swiss human rights organizations, Trial a...   read more

The government giveth, and the government taketh away. That’s what attorney H. Candace Gorman found out while representing Guantánamo detainee Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan baker married to an Afghan woman who was captured in Afghanistan short...   read more

Up until five years ago banks were limited to how much debt they could carry versus the amount of cash they had on hand. But after the Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Bush appointee and former Republican Congressman Christopher Cox, did...   read more

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has a lot of angry employees on his hands. The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture began reorganizing staff in October, which included downgrading the positions of chief information officer and chief financ...   read more

It may have lacked the military and foreign policy bravado that came with the ouster of Panama’s leader nearly 20 years ago, but Pavlo Lazarenko’s sentencing in U.S. court last week was nonetheless noteworthy. The former prime minister of Ukraine ...   read more

Few peoples of the world have endured as much conflict and upheaval as the Afghans during the past 30 years. Oxfam conducted an examination of Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the present conflict fought between the Unit...   read more

David Stokes is no fan of President Barack Obama. The only way the conservative Virginia pastor would vote for Obama is if his opponent was “Harry Reid, or Boss Tweed.” Stokes is convinced that “the president and his advisors have a socialist bent...   read more

White space. That’s why AT&T recently sued Verizon in civil court…because a Verizon advertisement showed a U.S. map of its competitor’s wireless coverage areas. The abundance of white space on the map implied that AT&T’s cell phone program failed ...   read more

A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of Nathalie Blanchard of Quebec, Canada, it can also be worth thousands of dollars in lost benefits. The 29-year-old IBM employee, diagnosed with severe depression, spent more than a year and a ...   read more

In what investors are calling a win-win opportunity that benefits struggling homeowners, Wall Street is buying up mortgages from Main Street and reducing the amount Americans owe to the bank. The scheme is not born out of altruism, however.   In...   read more