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

Mounir Said Hanna, a 55-year-old administrator at a vocational school in southern Egypt, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,000 in U.S. dollars) for writing poems deemed insulting to President Hosni Mubar...   read more

Watching the rising rates of unemployment and foreclosures, it’s hard to imagine the economic downturn is even close to being over. But for one group of Americans, the leaders of large banks, the economy is starting to look rosy again.   Followi...   read more

Whales swimming in the Gulf of Mexico may become collateral damage from military exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy, which has asked for permission to ”incidentally harass” the mammals. The National Marine Fisheries Service is reviewing the Navy...   read more

Even though President Barack Obama has pledged to end no-bid contracting, the Defense Department is still awarding projects—paid for with stimulus funds—to businesses that haven’t had to compete for the work. The awarding of no-bid work to small c...   read more

A blogger in China helping to expose the cover up of a local woman’s rape was arrested this week in mid-sentence while posting to Twitter. “I have been arrested by Mawei police, SOS,” wrote amoiist, who also goes by the names Peter Guo and Guo Bof...   read more

After serving in Iraq, public affairs specialist Gina Gray figured her new assignment handling media requests for Arlington National Cemetery would be a lot safer and easier. She thought wrong. Soon after taking over as the public affairs director...   read more

After five and a half years of waiting in immigration detention, Jamaican-born immigrant Errol Barrington Scarlett has finally been granted a bond hearing by a federal judge in Buffalo, New York. The defendants, the Department of Homeland Security...   read more

Two longtime California politicians have been selected to lead the government’s investigation into the causes of the economic crisis that struck the nation last year. Chairing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will be Phil Angelides, former ...   read more

A ban on building roads in National Forests was disregarded by the Obama administration this week when Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack approved a plan to open up to logging a stretch of forest on Revillagigedo Island in Tongass National Forest i...   read more

Where are you when we need you, Steven McQueen? The star of the 1958 film, The Blob, knew what to do about that gelatinous, man-eating monster, but officials in Alaska are stumped over what exactly is floating off the state’s coast in the Chukchi ...   read more

Fulfilling his promise of appointing Republicans to his administration, President Obama has turned to Republican Congressman John M. McHugh to serve as Secretary of the Army. McHugh represents New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which includes...   read more

The U.S. Naval Academy reportedly graduated its first pregnant midshipman in May, even though school policy dictates women are not supposed to marry or begin families before completing their studies. Normally, pregnant midshipmen are allowed to ta...   read more

Older workers are at greater risk of being laid off because of their age in the current economic recession, the federal government and advocates warned this week at a congressional hearing. According to statistics from the Equal Employment Opportu...   read more

With a $26 billion deficit to fill, California needs to take advantage of something it does more than any other state—grow marijuana plants—according to Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. The San Francisco lawmaker has introduced AB 390, which wo...   read more

Heroin smugglers in Central Asia are saying “Thanks, America!” for the $37 million bridge built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2007. Intended to help expand trade between poverty-stricken Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the bridge across the P...   read more

Not satisfied with just one uranium mine in his corporate empire, billionaire and arms merchant James Neal Blue has now purchased an adjoining mine in Australia used to supply radioactive material for civilian nuclear reactors in the United States...   read more