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

Basir “Steve” Ahmed’s story is similar to other Afghans who have helped the U.S. military as translators in Afghanistan. Ahmed worked with American soldiers for four years, helping them communicate with locals, and then was fired by his U.S. emplo...   read more

Do not misbehave in Judge Daniel Rozak’s courtroom. The Chicago Circuit Court justice has a quick trigger for jailing anyone who does anything to disrupt courtroom proceedings, from allowing cell phones to go off to simply yawning.   Rozak’s kna...   read more

Officials in the U.S. Department of Transportation have allocated millions of dollars in stimulus funds for small airports, even though the projects did not qualify for funding under the criteria established by the agency. The findings were uncove...   read more

Golf is not proletarian enough for socialist leader Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In a televised rant last Sunday against the sport, Chavez said “golf is a bourgeois sport,” which prompted supporters of the president to close down two of the country’s...   read more

Having graduated its first class of “drone pilots” only this year, the U.S. Air Force is now saying that the growing demand for unmanned aircraft missions is so great that it will have to train more of these new breed of “aces” who never leave the...   read more

Lawyers for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America were caught off guard on Monday when a federal judge refused to approve a $33 million settlement over BofA’s attempt to hide the payment of billion-dollar bonuses from bank sha...   read more

Public opinion surveys have consistently revealed that Americans like the idea of a government-funded health care option, like Medicare, to help solve the problem of the uninsured and underinsured in the United States. But news reporting by televi...   read more

Whether it’s by congressional act, high court ruling, or presidential order, President Barack Obama is determined to keep hidden a set of controversial photos depicting detainees being abused by the American military. President Obama reportedly se...   read more

Six years after the invasion of Iraq, which resulted in widespread looting of Baghdad’s antiquities, the country is still trying to reclaim thousands of historical pieces that are not only important to Iraqi cultural heritage, but world civilizati...   read more

If the United States follows through on the commitments required to meet President Barack Obama’s long-term plan for stabilizing Afghanistan, the government will end up spending even more money to tame it than has already been allocated to fight ...   read more

One state’s nightmare might be another’s opportunity when it comes to figuring out what to do with the detainees at Guantánamo Bay detention facility, which President Barack Obama wants to shut down. Republican opposition out of Kansas is so fierc...   read more

Eliminating billions of dollars in expenses from the healthcare system isn’t entirely dependent on Congress and the president to hammer out a complicated reform measure. According to a new report by the advocacy group Public Citizen, the nation co...   read more

Not every wealthy American is opposed to paying more taxes to help the country resolve its problems during these recessionary times. A group calling itself Wealth for the Common Good is calling on President Barack Obama and Congress to immediately...   read more

Having already taken what some South American leaders considered a weak response to the coup that ousted Honduras’ leader Manuel Zelaya, the Obama administration signaled last week that it may further back away from helping the former president re...   read more

Cultural coverage of Sonia Sotomayor’s ascension to the Supreme Court has centered on her ethnicity (first Hispanic) and her sex (third woman). Overlooked in the excitement is her religion. Sotomayor is a Roman Catholic. No big deal? With her co...   read more

President Barack Obama’s newfound friendship with the drug industry’s top lobbyist is beginning to pay off. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which represents drug companies in Washington, DC, is planning to launch ...   read more