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

Since 2007, pirate attacks have increased off the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s most highly trafficked passageways, but their success rates have declined. In 2007, there were only 19 pirate attacks, but 63% were successful. The following year...   read more

Within the next three years, the federal government will be hiring more than 250,000 workers to meet growing demands for skilled workers ranging from health to legal services. A new report by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service says feder...   read more

With front groups, defined as organizations that claim to represent one agenda while really serving another, popping up everywhere these days, Anne Landman at PR Watch has offered up ways to figure out who really is behind the likes of FACES of Co...   read more

What OPEC is to oil, China is to rare earth elements, and the Chinese government is now taking advantage of its control over such materials to expand its economic clout. China possesses 93% of the world’s rare elements, and virtually all of the gl...   read more

Documents compiled by the CIA’s inspector general relating to the agency’s secret interrogation program will not be released, according to CIA’s National Clandestine Service office. The agency is refusing to turn over materials to a federal court ...   read more

The collision that commonly takes place between the left and the right in politics has manifested itself in France where two local leaders have literally aimed their constituencies at one another. Tired of the commuter traffic that has plagued the...   read more

After enduring years of what critics called neglect on the part of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. is planning to bolster its civil rights division. For starters, Holder intends to add 50 n...   read more

Following up on its promise in April to go after greenhouse gases, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that it will declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant if Congress does not act soon. EPA chief Lisa Jackson told la...   read more

With obstacles mounting from both the enemy and the government in power, the U.S. should rethink its strategy in Afghanistan and dramatically downsize its forces, writes conservative columnist George Will. The current plan by President Barack Obam...   read more

Americans who use cocaine have a one-in-three chance of snorting the drug laced with Levamisole, a potent medication used to de-worm cattle. Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration say Colombian drug smugglers have been adding Levamisol...   read more

Not knowing English apparently disqualifies a woman from being a good mother, according to some health officials in Mississippi. Cirila Baltazar Cruz is a 34-year-old illegal immigrant and restaurant worker from Mexico who speaks neither English n...   read more

Twenty years after his death, Nobel Prize-winning physicist William B. Shockley is still creating controversy because of his support for eugenics, the long discredited belief that intelligence is hereditary and racially based, thus justifying huma...   read more

NBA players who compare big games to that of going to war have nothing on Tim James. The former first-round draft pick of the Miami Heat gave up his basketball career last year and joined the U.S. Army, becoming the first former NBA player to serv...   read more

On June 11, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East to be the next ambassador to Oman. Richard J. Schmierer was born in New Jersey circa 1952, and earned a B.A. from Lehigh University i...   read more

Not since the end of the Vietnam War has the U.S. military faced as large a task of hauling home weapons and equipment as it does in Iraq. More 1.5 million pieces of hardware, ranging from the 65-ton Abrams tank to antennas weighing a few pounds, ...   read more

Global warming may wind up giving the U.S. Navy a new job. With the arctic ice pack shrinking rapidly, the North Pole could be entirely free of ice during the summer season within just 20 years. Such a development would create a brand new sea lane...   read more