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

In the name of granting the defendants a fair trial, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina decided on Wednesday to close the pretrial hearings of five Blackwater guards involved in a Baghdad shooting in 2007 that left 14 Iraqis dead. Urbina said he w...   read more

After two terms of a Bush presidency that was reluctant, if not hostile, towards regulatory action, the Obama administration is unleashing a vigorous assault on businesses selling dangerous or illegal products and services.   At the Food and Dru...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to keep hidden photos of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is moving closer to becoming law. Administration officials recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone weighing in on the matter in the hope that...   read more

Approximately 200,000 Vietnam veterans may soon be able to receive disability benefits for illnesses stemming from their exposure 40 years ago to Agent Orange. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to propose this week new rules that add Parkin...   read more

Maxi Sopo apparently never learned one of the basic rules of being a criminal on the run: keep a low profile. The 26-year-old from Cameroon decided to brag on Facebook about what a great time he was having in Mexico while hiding out from U.S. auth...   read more

Having failed to get the justice he sought in China, expatriate Liu Bo Shan has sued the recently opened New York branch of his former Chinese employer to prove his claims of being tortured for exposing corruption. Shan, who now lives in Flushing,...   read more

Since President Barack Obama’s announcement in March that the United States would be sending additional soldiers to Afghanistan, the number repeatedly cited by administration officials has been 21,000. But in actuality the number heading overseas...   read more

Conducting the nation’s business on Capitol Hill involves more than just the members of Congress. Behind every senator and representative are staffers upon whom lawmakers rely heavily to make decisions on important issues, such health care reform....   read more

Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, said recently he understands why people get so upset over the amount of bonuses awarded to those on Wall Street. Time will tell if Blankfein is still as understanding after Thursday, when news of his firm’s ...   read more

Matthew Brandt, owner of KK Office Solutions in Kansas, did not favor the election of Barack Obama as president, and he let his employees know it. In an email to his workers on October 29, 2008, Brandt warned them “to rethink” their vote on Novemb...   read more

The M4 rifle is the main weapon of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more than 500,000 in service. Although the vast majority of soldiers are said to have no problems with the weapon, the M4 proved unreliable in a deadly fir...   read more

Coming off a bad month of stock market losses, the insurance industry launched a last-minute scare attack this weekend against Democratic health reforms. Citing a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Karen Ignagni, president of the trade gro...   read more

Federal prosecutors during the Bush administration sometimes required defendants to waive their right to DNA testing as part of a guilty plea. Justice Department officials at that time argued there was no point allowing those who had confessed to ...   read more

One argument in favor of national health care reform is based on the fact that quality medical care is not equally available at the state level. To prove this point, The Commonwealth Fund has again published its State Scorecard on Health System Pe...   read more

To help finance the U.S. military effort during World War II, the federal government sold war bonds to millions of Americans, many of whom never bothered to cash them in once the conflict ended. More often than not, this was because of the 40-year...   read more

A recent survey of intensive care unit workers at the VA hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, found that more than 60% of them would not want to be a patient in their own ward. This comes as no surprise given the poor level of care veterans have recei...   read more