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

With the withdrawal of U.S. forces from certain areas in Iraq, the fate of an Iranian opposition group has been left in the hands of the Iraqi government—which is seeking to establish friendly ties with the regime in Iran. The forging of closer ti...   read more

And then there was one. As of July 31 the multi-national force in Iraq will consist entirely of troops from one nation: the United States. The last remaining militaries other than the U.S., the British and Australians, will pull out their troops b...   read more

Described by one legal expert as possibly the “ultimate confrontation” in the courts over Guantánamo, a federal judge was poised to order the Obama administration to release a detainee when the Justice Department agreed to return him to Afghanista...   read more

With more and more Americans turning away from using mail service, causing its business to plummet, the U.S. Postal Service finds itself in serious trouble and in need of urgent restructuring. This conclusion was offered by the Government Accounta...   read more

Not only did its officials ignore warnings about dam safety, but the Tennessee Valley Authority also tried to bury a study revealing the cause of the massive coal ash spill last December 22 near Knoxville. Things had deteriorated so badly at the T...   read more

Troy Schafer found out the hard way that insurance and liability issues trump Good Samaritan deeds at Randalls grocery store in Round Rock, Texas. The now former produce manager thought he was doing the right thing when he chased a purse snatcher ...   read more

On April 8, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Ken Melson, since May 14, 2007, the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, would be the next Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (...   read more

While recipients of the Nobel Prize garner media attention for their past achievements, many lesser known scientists, researchers and innovators are quietly receiving million-dollar prizes from the U.S. government in an effort to promote new ideas...   read more

It is no coincidence that as the number of overweight Americans has gone up, so too has the nation’s costs for health care, according to researchers. While experts do not solely blame rising obesity rates for skyrocketing medical expenses, the gro...   read more

Next time your airline cancels a flight and leaves you stewing at the airport, just think of James Hunter and you might not feel so bad about your predicament. Hunter, an airport security specialist employed by Global Strategies Group, was sent ...   read more

It’s bad enough when immigration officials mistakenly jail American citizens because of assumptions stemming from racial profiling, but it’s worse if they insist on keeping them detained even after they have presented a slew of evidence proving th...   read more

Douglas Elmendorf is arguably the most important nomination that President Barack Obama has no say over. Chosen by the leaders of the House and Senate, the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) holds considerable sway on Capitol Hill b...   read more

It is time for agricultural biotech companies that produce genetically-modified (GM) seeds to end their restrictions on independent research, write the editors of Scientific American, one of the nation’s leading science journals. They point out th...   read more

On April 8, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he was appointing H. Marshall Jarrett, since 1998 the Chief Counsel and Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), the new Director of the Office...   read more

While members of Congress dicker about overhauling the nation’s health care system, a majority of Americans are in favor of solutions their representatives are not even considering. These include single-payer and government-run models, as well as ...   read more

Since returning home from the war in Iraq, numerous soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Carson, Colorado, have been accused of a laundry list of crimes, including multiple counts of murder. A...   read more