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

Huge donations by Wall Street to Congress, the reemergence of segregated education in America, and the pirating of Somalia’s territorial waters by foreign businesses are just some of the top stories that have gone underreported by the media, accor...   read more

The warning signs were there, nearly 10 years before the housing crash, but officials at the Federal Reserve ignored them. In Chicago, where subprime mortgages were handed out to minority communities on the city’s south and west side, community gr...   read more

Deadly exposure to harmful chemicals and other fatal workplace conditions now represents the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the advocacy group PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility). This problem...   read more

When it’s not trying to get rid of golf courses, the government of President Hugo Chávez is going after popular American cartoon shows. Television stations in Venezuela have been told by government officials not to air episodes of Family Guy becau...   read more

A recent study funded by the Foundation for Child Development found that children of immigrants to the United States suffer from high levels of obesity. The study, which used data from the Department of Education, tracked 21,000 children from kind...   read more

There’s a reason why the United States doesn’t need health care reform—Americans don’t want it. According to conservative activist Janice Shaw Crouse, polls show that 90% of people in the United States are satisfied with their health care coverage...   read more

Treece, Kansas, may soon be no more. The tiny community near the Oklahoma border is so polluted with chat—mining waste filled with lead and zinc—that the Environmental Protection Agency wants to buy out those left in Treece and level it in an effo...   read more

While throwing out part of the lawsuit, a California judge recently ruled that Kobe Bryant’s former housekeeper can continue her case on grounds of “personal insult” to which Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, subjected Maria Jimenez. Orange County Superior ...   read more

GuideOne Mutual Insurance didn’t see any problem with offering special benefits to god-fearing consumers, but atheists and agnostics, not to mention the federal government, sure did. The Department of Justice sued GuideOne in federal court in Kent...   read more

Top military officials in Washington have told naval commanders to prepare the nation’s submarine fleet for female crew members, ending a gender barrier that has lasted since the beginning of undersea warfare by the United States. Both Navy Secr...   read more

No point in getting the grilled chicken at KFC because it’s just as unhealthy as the battered-and-fried kind, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The doctors group has sued KFC in a San Francisco Superior Court on gro...   read more

Never before in the history of the Food and Drug Administration has it publicly questioned its approval process, or admitted a regulatory decision was influenced by politics, or accused a former commissioner of questionable conduct, according to T...   read more

Pay-for-performance has as much authenticity in the world of CEOs nowadays as a three-dollar bill. Last year, the nation’s financial sector teetered toward collapsing, businesses hemorrhaged a couple million jobs, and the stock market fell 37%. Bu...   read more

The Great Recession of 2008-2009 did nothing to slow the advance of corporate America becoming friendlier towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals. According to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual ranking of businesses,...   read more

The timing of Army General Stanley McChrystal’s recent, and dour, assessment of the war in Afghanistan should be noted, says Tom Engelhardt, in light of President Barack Obama’s wavering on the conflict’s long-term military commitment. McChrystal ...   read more

Medical researchers have confirmed—to a “statistically significantly” degree—a fear long held by the British: do not check yourself into a hospital in early August. This calendar-driven warning is due to the annual arrival of new doctors to hospit...   read more