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

Continuing to argue that former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with prosecutors in the Valerie Plame leak case should not be publicized, the Obama administration pleaded with a federal judge last week to keep the transcript locked away for...   read more

Film festivals in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco have provoked fierce opposition from China and Israel over the screenings of documentaries about an exiled Uighur leader and a young American killed while trying to defend a Palestinian hom...   read more

Accustomed to adrenaline rushing through their veins while driving at high speeds to avoid being attacked, returning war veterans are having a tough time driving “normal” once they get back to the United States. The urge to drive recklessly is so ...   read more

South African officials can take solace in knowing the new U.S. ambassador to their country at least has a direct line to President Barack Obama. For what Donald H. Gips lacks in experience as a diplomat or involvement in South African affairs is ...   read more

If Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius ever longs for her days back in Kansas, she can always wander down the hall and visit with her old pal, Kathy J. Greenlee. The new head of the Administration on Aging is a longtime aide o...   read more

A new food study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals there are approximately nine million Americans who lack sufficient food to eat., It is estimated (based on a 2001 survey) that 3.1% of the U.S. population “sometimes or often did not h...   read more

The Bush administration’s refusal to acknowledge the danger of global warming included withholding from the public startling satellite images of disappearing ice packs off the coast of Alaska. The photos taken several years ago by orbiting satelli...   read more

Congressman Larry Kissell’s (D-NC) latest “Buy America” tactic has provoked anger from representatives of the European Union over a one-line amendment that requires the federal government to buy automobiles only from the Big Three car manufacturer...   read more

Dutch author Arthur Japin was conducting research for his next novel when he made a startling discovery at Leiden University Medical Centre: the nearly 200-year-old head of an African king. Badu Bonsu II was once chief of the Ahanta, a tribe livin...   read more

While spending months fighting post-election legal battles to claim his U.S. Senate seat, Al Franken had plenty of time to work on his legislative agenda. So once Franken was cleared to become the junior senator from Minnesota, he wasted little ti...   read more

With a long career in public health, Thomas R. Frieden’s credits include spearheading successful programs to curb tuberculosis in New York City and India. President Barack Obama’s choice to take over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...   read more

The past week was a good one for the FBI, as agents captured two men on the bureau’s famed “10 Most Wanted” list. First, there was gang member Emigdio Preciado, Jr. (aka “Junior,” “Trigger,” “Spooky,” and “Snyper,”), who was apprehended in Mexico ...   read more

According to data compiled by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Bank of America isn’t quite the friend of small business it claims to be. The overwhelming majority of loans made through the Small Business Administration are called ...   read more

Take humans out of nature, squeeze them into cramped, urban environments, and violence and bad behavior go up. Apparently, it’s the same for monkeys in India, who increasingly have turned aggressive and destructive as deforestation in Punjab has f...   read more

Faster than a speeding bullet, the new super traders of Wall Street are today utilizing powerful computers and advanced mathematics to buy, sell and even manipulate stock markets like never before. “High-frequency” trading uses advanced algorithms...   read more

Hussam Mohammed Amin has been described as having the most impossible job in Iraq before the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The major general was responsible for overseeing the compilation of a massive volume of data showing that Iraq had no weapons...   read more