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

A key fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s, Alan D. Solomont has been a major player in Democratic Party politics since the 1980s, while amassing a fortune in the nursing home industry and contributing millions to a variety of philanthropic cau...   read more

Gauging the plight of the unemployed entails more than just examining statistics. According to a survey of those looking for work conducted by Rutgers University, the numbers alone paint a bleak picture, but once the personal feelings of the joble...   read more

When an investment market is worth almost $600 trillion, banks are going to spend heavily to try and keep federal regulators from touching it. That’s what five commercial banks—JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Cit...   read more

While former Attorney General John Ashcroft has insisted he had no personal involvement, or liability, in the matter, a federal appeals court in San Francisco thought otherwise in an anger-tinged ruling announced on Friday. Two members of the thre...   read more

For the first time in many presidential administrations, President Barack Obama has agreed to publish the names of almost all visitors to the White House. Under the new policy, visitors ranging from tourists to business leaders will have their nam...   read more

Three churches in Phoenix are suing the city over its anti-noise ordinance that has prevented clergy from ringing church bells. At first the churches defied the local law by ringing the bells, some as often as every hour on the hour from 8 am to 8...   read more

C. Steven McGann, a longtime member of the Foreign Service whose work has spanned from Africa to South Asia, received his first ambassadorship in being selected to be the United States’ top envoy to Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tonga, and Nauru. He ass...   read more

“Death panels” are already a reality in California, according to the state’s nurses union, which argues that insurance companies are routinely rejecting medical care for patients, leading to unnecessary suffering and in some cases death.   A rev...   read more

When people don’t have health insurance, they turn not only to emergency rooms for medical care, but to their local firefighters. Increasingly, firemen are handling medical emergency calls by those who have no means to see a doctor. Instead of rus...   read more

Following up on President Barack Obama’s declaration in April, the Treasury Department on Thursday officially removed most restrictions on family visits to Cuba. Previously, citizens and residents were limited to one family visit every three years...   read more

Denny’s restaurant might be a “grand slam” of a deal, but the salt content of the food might be enough to strike out those with high blood pressure. A lawsuit filed by an Illinois man claims Denny’s food is dangerously high in salt, and that the r...   read more

Residents of Tallahatchie County in Mississippi recently endured an ugly flashback to the pre-Civil Rights era when a mostly white mob conducted a vigilante hunt for an African American accused of committing a burglary.   In the same county wher...   read more

It’s been seven months since Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the 2009 stimulus package, which injected $792 billion into the economy to stave off the worst of the economic downturn. So how much o...   read more

After paying $75 million for illegally testing an antibiotic on African children, pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer has agreed to pay the largest health care fraud settlement and the largest criminal fine of any kind ever for illegally marketing ...   read more

Last summer, after numerous types of toys were recalled because of unsafe concentrations of lead, Congress mandated that all toy manufacturers submit their products to independent testing to ensure compliance with new safety rules. Among the compa...   read more

Male government officials in Bangladesh, from civil servants to cabinet ministers, are going casual to work. In order to save electricity in the energy-starved country, the nation’s female prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, ordered men employed by the...   read more