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

Is the flip side of “too big to fail” for the nation’s largest banks “too protected to change”? The decision by the federal government to prop up the likes of Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and others did more than just shield the fina...   read more

Renditions will continue to be used by the U.S. government under President Barack Obama, but with the goal of making them kindler and gentler, according to administration officials. Rather than bringing terrorism suspects to the United States, whi...   read more

Described by one media researcher as “a socially acceptable form of casual piracy,” unauthorized downloading of movies and television programs is booming, which is unnerving for those American production companies, studios and networks that have n...   read more

American agriculture is steadily becoming an industry dominated by larger farms, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Statistics compiled for the report show production of many types of crops and livestock doubled or eve...   read more

Large, vocal protests have forced the president of Mali to not approve a new law granting equal rights to women. President Amadou Toumani Touré, who originally supported the plan, decided this week to send the measure back to Parliament to quell t...   read more

Fast-paced can apply to many things in American society, but Internet connections is not one of them. A study by the Communications Workers of America found that the United States currently ranks 28th in the world when it comes to high-speed Web s...   read more

More than $700 million in federal stimulus funds dedicated to upgrading checkpoints along the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada is being unevenly distributed thanks to political influences in Washington. An investigation by the Associated Press ...   read more

For those desiring an in depth examination of all things stupid, there’s Course 180 offered by Occidental College. The small liberal arts institution in Southern California (which has the distinction of being the college Barack Obama attended for ...   read more

School districts throughout California took on an additional $1 billion in debt this decade as a result of bond refinancing schemes encouraged by banks—and now deemed unconstitutional by Attorney General Jerry Brown. About 200 cash-strapped distri...   read more

If pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Wyeth are allowed to merge, the result will be higher drugs prices, lower quality, and the loss of thousands of jobs, according to a lawsuit seeking to halt the $68 billion merger. The challenge has been filed b...   read more

Monday’s publication of the CIA inspector general report on detainee interrogations was not the first time an edited version of the document had been released. In 2008, the Bush administration declassified a heavily redacted version of “Counterter...   read more

The Federal Reserve, which has long enjoyed a tight cloak of secrecy around its financial decision making, lost a key ruling in federal court on Monday that will require it to turn over documents detailing which banks received emergency loans duri...   read more

Reporters seeking to cover the war in Afghanistan may not get the chance to embed with U.S. military units if their previous coverage of the conflict is deemed too negative. The Pentagon is relying on the controversial public relations firm, The R...   read more

For the second year in a row, migrant children left to survive on their own in Greece have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment on a Greek island where conditions have been described as “abominable” by one European human rights bo...   read more

Among the decisions left over from the Bush administration for President Barack Obama to decide upon is whether the federal government should pay a $1 billion settlement to the people of a tiny South Pacific island who were exposed to U.S. nuclear...   read more

If a health reform plan manages to become enacted, insurance companies and hospitals will by no means come out on the short end financially. An aggressive, well-orchestrated lobbying campaign by insurers, and a shrewd bit of bargaining by hospital...   read more