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

Whether or not President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday advanced the cause of health care reform, it did help the stock portfolios of health insurance companies. The Associated Press reported the following day that shares of many insurers went...   read more

About 30 miles separate the towns of Mount Vernon and Bellingham in Washington state, but a much greater distance separates their mayors. Conservative Mayor Bud Norris of Mount Vernon likes Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, and recently he decided ...   read more

From a purely financial standpoint, the auto industry bailout was not a wise maneuver on the part of the federal government. It can be argued that the assistance was necessary to avert even more job losses in an already recession-wracked economy, ...   read more

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants to revamp the nation’s oil-and-gas royalty system to encourage more efficient drilling for fossil fuels on federal lands. The idea makes sense, but the problem lies in its execution—or rather, who will b...   read more

The times they are a-changing, in Cuba, where a collection of cyber aficionados came together to celebrate the Communist country’s first-ever blog awards. As Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez put it, A Virtual Island was more than just a ceremony—it was...   read more

With more soldiers dying of suicide than in combat this year, the military is looking for a solution to this problem through a three-year, $50 million study. The study will include psychological assessments and DNA samples of half a million soldie...   read more

With the U.S. workforce getting grayer and grayer, the leading advocacy organization for older Americans wants people to know which companies or institutions get it right with regards to those 50 and above. According to the AARP’s “2011 Best Emplo...   read more

A blander diet could mean a richer wallet for the United States, if only Americans could cut back on their salt intake. A new study conducted by researchers at the RAND Corporation found Americans consume about 3,400 milligrams of salt per day—whi...   read more

The United States is no longer the worst per-capita polluter when it comes to contributing to the problem of global warming. Australia is now number one. But neither country, nor most other industrial nations, is at risk of suffering from the wors...   read more

Criticizing the leader of Turkey has cost the media group, Doğan Yayin, dearly. The government’s Tax Ministry fined Doğan—a conglomerate of newspapers and television stations that includes CNN-Turk, a Turkish-language version of CNN jointly owned ...   read more

In a complete reversal from the previous administration, South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. courts against American corporations that did business in South Africa when apartheid was still in effect...   read more

Overdraft fees have become a lucrative business for banks, especially in recent times when consumers easily run short of cash in their checking accounts. Banks are expected to reap $27 billion in overdraft charges on ATM card transactions alone th...   read more

Republicans and conservative Democrats in support of health care reform want any plan adopted by Congress to include a curb on medical malpractice lawsuits. They argue that such a change would help bring down health care costs—by reducing the habi...   read more

Chicago is not only the Windy City but also the most stressed out. This finding is according to Forbes’ annual survey for 2009 ranking the top cities in America where stress is overflowing. The magazine took into consideration several quality-of-l...   read more

On Monday, a British jury convicted three British Muslims of plotting to blow up more than half a dozen planes over the Atlantic, but three years ago, officials in the United Kingdom were worried that their investigation of the plot was almost foi...   read more

The Obama administration is rushing to submit to Congress a Strategic Implementation Plan that will include a host of statistics (or metrics) that will define “success” in the Afghanistan war. But author Tom Engelhardt has produced his own set of ...   read more