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

A White House dedicated to more openness and accountability has decided to share information on the Fort Hood murders with only a select group of lawmakers, angering both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Instead of debriefing the entire ...   read more

Millions of taxpayers may take a hit next spring when they file their income tax returns. Earlier this year, as part of the government’s effort to stimulate the economy, lawmakers created the Making Work Pay tax credit that gave workers some extra...   read more

Government funding of churches operating social programs is more palatable to Democrats than Republicans, now that a Democrat is in the White House and supports the concept. Back in 2001 when George W. Bush launched his faith-based initiatives pro...   read more

Agility, a Kuwaiti logistics company owned by the Sultan Al-Essa family, is in hot water with the federal government for allegedly defrauding the U.S. out of billions of dollars on contracts to provide food for troops stationed in the Middle East....   read more

Since the introduction of biotech versions of corn, soybeans and cotton on American farms in the mid-1990s, farmers are spraying less pesticide on their fields. That’s the good news. But, with the planting of genetically-engineered crops resistant...   read more

When insurance giant AIG teetered last fall on the brink of collapse, threatening to take with it a lot of Wall Street heavyweights, the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, led by Timothy Geithner, chose to make whole the likes of Goldman Sach...   read more

Declining numbers of immigration arrests are not a sign that the federal government is backing off on border patrol enforcement, but rather another indication of how bad the U.S. economy is doing these days. According to the Migration Information ...   read more

If things continue as they have in recent years, the federal government might as well slap the words “of Boeing” at the end of the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s name. The American aircraft manufacturer has been far and away the largest beneficiary of ...   read more

Some party. After getting dressed for what they thought would be a Sunday night festival of fun in a posh Rome neighborhood, 200 young Italian women found themselves being pitched to convert to Islam by none other than Libyan dictator Muammar Gadd...   read more

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has found himself being questioned again by his judicial colleagues, this time regarding his oversight of a $30 million fund slated to go to victims of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship in the Philippines. Real has ...   read more

The world’s largest oil companies are presently jockeying for the rights to Iraq’s petroleum reserves, coming closer to a huge payday made possible by the United States’ toppling of Saddam Hussein. Already, ExxonMobil is benefiting from the regime...   read more

Mexico is expected to lose more than 700,000 jobs this year due to a slumping economy that may decline as much as 7.5%. Almost half of the country’s population lives in poverty, and yet, it is managing to reverse a trend of money that has traditio...   read more

The House health care reform plan will do little to curb medical costs or significantly reduce the number of uninsured Americans, writes Harvard Medical School professor Marcia Angell. Substantial changes need to be made to the plan before the Se...   read more

By the time it is completed atop a hill in Senegal, the statue “African Renaissance” will have cost $27 million and stand taller than either the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower. But the investment is well worth it, argues the county’s presi...   read more

It may not be long before someone in charge of a congressional committee in Washington asks the Treasury Department: “How do you define healthy?” So far in November three banks have collapsed that received federal bailout funds (from the Troubled ...   read more

Republican criticism of the Obama administration’s plan to relocate Guantanamo detainees to U.S. prisons is falling on deaf ears in communities hurting for jobs. From Montana to Illinois, cities are vying for the chance to use empty or underutiliz...   read more