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

The conservation group Sequoia Forestkeeper has sued to stop the U.S. Forest Service from logging 639 trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada in Central California. The logging has been proposed by government for...   read more

All Mohammed Zakaria Memon wanted to do was pray five times a day while working as an IT consultant for Wal-Mart in their Arkansas-based corporate offices. But this rite of Islam was allegedly unacceptable to Wal-Mart, according to a lawsuit filed...   read more

Young Latinas do not lack for professional aspirations, but the inability of many to complete high school on time is preventing them from realizing their career goals. A new study sponsored by the National Women’s Law Center and the Mexican Americ...   read more

For the second month in a row, a new record high in combat fatalities has been reached in Afghanistan for the U.S. military. A total of 45 American service members died in August, surpassing the 44 killed in July, which was the previous high mar...   read more

Although a shuttle launched into space travels thousands of miles, for Jose Hernández, the meaning of a long, arduous journey is all too familiar. Hernández, one of the six astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery, has had a remarkable success st...   read more

Less than 2,000 men are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year, compared with 192,000 cases for women. The rare occurrence of this condition in men has many wondering about the water supply at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, one...   read more

The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature the glass-topped casket that once displayed the remains of Emmett Till, whose murder became an early rallying point during the Civil Rights movement. Till’s...   read more

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became internationally famous for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released from prison on September 14. The 30-year-old reporter was sentenced to three years in prison aft...   read more

It’s tough to spend money, and thus help stimulate the economy, when stuck behind bars. So then why were 3,900 inmates nationwide sent stimulus checks like most other Americans? That’s the question many in Washington are asking since the news brok...   read more

On June 1, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed William J. Taggart to be chief operating officer (COO) of the department's Federal Student Aid office (FSA). FSA is a Performance Based Organization (PBO), which is intended to cre...   read more

The gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq over the next two years will cause operational expenses at the American embassy in Baghdad to rise by hundreds of millions of dollars during that time. With fewer soldiers around to help provide secu...   read more

Only Sesame Street and Mister Rogers have had longer runs on PBS than Reading Rainbow, which ended its more than two-and-a-half-decade broadcast history on Friday. The show, hosted by Lavar Burton and winner of two dozen Emmy awards, became a vict...   read more

As of Tuesday it will be illegal for businesses hocking goods or services to use prerecorded commercial telemarketing calls—or robocalls—according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). An FTC ruling going into effect on Sept. 1 outlaws telemarket...   read more

In an effort to encourage banks that were former subprime lenders to restructure failing mortgages, in February the Obama administration approved the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that will dole out billions of dollars of taxpayer mo...   read more

The question of whether detainees held by the United States are “persons” under American law may yet again come before the Supreme Court, which already told a federal circuit court in Washington, DC, earlier this year to review its ruling that for...   read more

Judge Jed Rakoff still isn’t satisfied. The federal judge who refused to accept the settlement between Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over attempts to hide the payment of billion-dollar bonuses from bank sharehold...   read more