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 FBI is gathering more and more data through wiretaps or emails these days, much of which sits around waiting to be translated. Instead of hiring more translators, the FBI has allowed the number of staff and contract linguists (1,298) to declin...   read more

With more than half of the 1.6 billion Internet users speaking languages other than English, it seemed only a matter of time before Web domains began to reflect this reality. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which r...   read more

It would be painful for everyone, but there is a way to eliminate the more than $1 trillion deficit in the current federal budget. Experts at the Tax Foundation concluded that by tripling the income tax for all earners, the $1.5 trillion hole in f...   read more

The Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University has been a thorn for Chicago police and prosecutors for more than a decade, helping uncover evidence leading to the release of 11 inmates. So the Cook County state’s attorney office is now fi...   read more

Ten years ago stock market enthusiasts were so confident that some proclaimed stocks to be a safer investment than bonds. But a comparison reveals quite the opposite. Despite whatever gains investors enjoyed over the last decade, most stock market...   read more

At a price of $310 million, “Karzai’s winter coat” is no ordinary cover of protection. The nickname applies to the Tarakhil Power Plant built by the U.S. in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul that was intended to help keep the embattled leader in powe...   read more

Spurring development of the next generation of energy technologies is the goal of a new Department of Energy program that announced on Monday the awarding of more than $150 million in grants to small businesses and universities for “high-risk, hig...   read more

U.S. Army Captain Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi has become the first Sikh to be permitted to keep his turban, beard and long hair while serving on active duty as an emergency room doctor. Kalsi, who hails from a military family (his father and grandfather...   read more

A host of prominent musicians spoke out on Saturday against the use of music to torture detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo—long after revelations first surfaced of the government’s tactic of blasting rock and pop songs during interrogat...   read more

Macro economic indicators may say the country is no longer in a recession, but the bank industry is still wallowing in failures. On Friday, the number of banks that have failed shot past the 100 mark in 2009, and is expected to climb not only the ...   read more

With pole dancing having moved outside the strip club and into mainstream fitness programs, supporters argue it’s time for the event to move to the big stage: the Olympics.   Pole dancing is now taught at 200 different studios spanning 50 countr...   read more

For too long police have been allowed to impose a “profitable tyranny” over those accused of owning property purchased illegally, says Paul Jacob, president of Citizens in Charge, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting and...   read more

Although she claims not to have been directly involved in the episode, journalist Rozanna al-Yami of Saudi Arabia was sentenced to receive 60 lashes as a result of a Lebanese television show, “Bold Red Line,” which featured a man discussing his ...   read more

Reaffirming what has long been suspected, a report prepared for Congress says China is actively probing U.S. computer systems as part of a growing cyber-war campaign. Requested by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the Northro...   read more

The First-Time Homebuyer Credit program has been declared a success by its supporters, who want Congress to extend it past its December 1 expiration. But its “success” was due in part to thousands of Americans who exploited the $8,000 tax credit e...   read more

Facing defeat on a net neutrality proposal, AT&T pulled out all the stops this week to convince the Federal Communications Commission not to begin a process that will limit telecom giants’ ability to regulate their Internet networks. While other c...   read more