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

Democrats promised after taking control of Congress in 2007 to be more fiscally responsible than Republicans. But an analysis of all legislation introduced since then shows the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss, according to Demian ...   read more

Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs sold more than $40 billion in securities just prior to the collapse of the housing market without telling its buyers of the risky investments that had been packaged together. As a result of the investment bank’...   read more

More than 10% of Americans may suffer from poor sleep, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After getting feedback from 403,981 respondents, CDC researchers found that West Virginia had the high...   read more

Having endured more than four decades of authoritarian rule behind the former Soviet Union’s “Iron Curtain,” Poland was not happy to learn that Russia practiced invading its country during a recent war games exercise. The mock attack was carried o...   read more

Executive compensation hasn’t just been going up on Wall Street. The salaries of private university presidents also have leaped this decade, during which the heads of some higher education institutions first eclipsed the $1 million mark. Only fi...   read more

The United States’ resolve to back President Hamid Karzai showed no signs of wavering over the weekend even while serious concerns continued to be expressed over the legitimacy of Afghanistan’s ruler. On November 2, Afghanistan's Independent Elect...   read more

It’s not uncommon for one part of the federal government to not know what another is planning even when both are working on the same thing. But what happened in Chicago late last week was particularly intriguing, in light of the fact that heads of...   read more

The nation’s largest banks continue to use credit card policies considered “unfair or deceptive” by the federal government, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trust. With many of the provisions of the Credit CARD Act not going into ef...   read more

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was incensed on Friday upon learning that House Democratic leaders had quietly dropped his provision for allowing states to create their own single-payer health insurance program as part of the federal health ref...   read more

Reaffirming earlier accounts of FBI opposition to torturing terrorism suspects, documents declassified on Friday revealed special agents investigated CIA actions against detainees and that Justice Department officials even considered prosecuting i...   read more

About 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded in Afghanistan since the invasion of 2001—but a quarter of those have come just in the last three months of fighting. Expanded military operations coupled with a Taliban offensive and more powerful impro...   read more

Democratic and Republican lawmakers reacted negatively on Thursday to the Obama administration’s new regulatory plan for banks, citing provisions that would give the Executive Branch greater powers to bail out teetering institutions without the pu...   read more

A government by the people and for the people should also be understood by the people, which is why a movement is underway to get federal employees to start communicating differently. For too long federal agencies have used jargon in written commu...   read more

American and European officials are negotiating a new agreement that would allow members of the European Union to refuse extradition of suspects to the United States in the event that they may be sentenced to be executed. Few details were provided...   read more

Wisconsin prison officials are being sued by the Associated Press for refusing to release a video of a guard subduing a prisoner with a grenade. Inmate Raynard Jackson was subjected to a stinger grenade, which sprays 180 rubber pellets, inside his...   read more

With jobs harder to come by than at any other time since the late 1940s, young Americans are turning to college in droves. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows enrollment at two-year and four-year institutions of higher learning is its highest e...   read more