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 producers of Fiji Water like to tell their customers that drinking their bottled water saves them from having to go all the way to the Pacific island nation just to enjoy it. Not making the trek is good for others reasons too—like avoiding the...   read more

If the nation is unwilling to support a government-run health care option, then Dr. Paul Toffel has an alternative reform plan. A clinical professor of medicine at the University of Southern California’s medical school, Toffel offers what he calls...   read more

Although she came in at No. 2 in the world for the second year in a row, Sheila Bair was the highest rated American on Forbes’s most recent ranking of The 100 Most Powerful Women. The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was outpaced ...   read more

Credit card companies now must give consumers 45 days notice before raising interest rates, based on provisions in the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009 that went into effect on Thursday. Under the new law, car...   read more

Neda Soltan, the young woman whose murder symbolized the crackdown of Iranian protesters following the June elections, was killed by a pro-government militiaman (Basiji) named Abbas Kargar Javid, according to an Iranian doctor studying at Oxford B...   read more

Struggling from political repression and failed economic policies, Zimbabwe has the distinction of not only experiencing the first case of hyperinflation in the 21st century, but the second highest ever in recorded history. According to two econom...   read more

Trading in the business of torturing or executing human beings may soon require an export license from the federal government, if the Department of Commerce adopts new rules under consideration. The department’s Bureau of Industry and Security wan...   read more

The fundamental perception of private versus public employment in America has undergone a transformation in the last decade. For the first time since the Great Depression, there has been almost no growth in the private sector. Although the capital...   read more

Efforts to reduce the number of American troops in Iraq are being adjusted to handle a growing security problem in the northern part of the country where civil war between Arabs and Kurds is at risk of breaking out. U.S. ArmyGeneral Ray Odierno an...   read more

Figuring out which foreign governments or corporations are lobbying Congress, and how much they’re spending, has been difficult to do using data published by the Department of Justice. But now, thanks to the Sunlight Foundation and ProPublica, rec...   read more

President Barack Obama’s vision for creating “a better, freer world” apparently includes the continued use of renditions to capture fugitives in foreign countries wanted by federal authorities. Instead of working through normal diplomatic channels...   read more

Residents of the town of Fort Edward, in upstate New York, are wondering why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allowed its private contractor, General Electric, to dredge a portion of the Hudson River where historical remains were damaged, ...   read more

Environmental conservation efforts regarding privately owned land will be under the stewardship of a committed conservationist with more than thirty years of service in the field. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack named career conservationist D...   read more

Dr. Faranak Argani is going back to court to face charges of medical malpractice after the Montana Supreme Court ruled his first trial should not have continued after he assisted a juror who nearly fainted. During the trial, the attorney for plain...   read more

Outrage over compensation paid to financial executives and their advisers has reached the point where even judges with free-market philosophies are calling pay levels excessive and out of control, leading to speculation as to how the U.S. Supreme ...   read more

Judge Sharon Keller, dubbed “Sharon Killer” by death penalty opponents because of her rulings favoring capital punishment, went on trial Monday on charges stemming from her decision to close the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals before a death row i...   read more