Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

According to an analysis by Eric Ostermeier of Smart Politics, McCarthy, 49, whose district is in California’s Central Valley, has been in the House only about 7½ years. That’s more than a year less than any other floor leader in the history of the House, and about 10 years less than average. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia), whom McCarthy is replacing, was in the House 10 years, or five terms, before he was elected leader.   read more

The numbers are a sharp increase, with much of it coming as a result of the fighting in Syria. In 2008, Syria was the country hosting the second-largest number of refugees. Now, it’s the second-largest refugee=producing nation, trailing only Afghanistan. More than half of all refugees worldwide come from those two nations, along with Somalia. The countries hosting the most refugees are Pakistan, with 1.6 million, and Iran, with almost 900,000.   read more

In 2006, Mulamula was named first executive secretary of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region in Burundi. Mulamula served with that organization until 2011. Mulamula was named senior personal assistant to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete in 2012, a position she held until coming to Washington.   read more

In 2007, foreign ministry nominated him to be the ambassador to the United States. However Romanian President Traian Băsescu vetoed the move, and Buga returned to Bucharest to serve as state secretary in the foreign ministry. In 2009, Buga was sent to Ireland to serve as his country’s ambassador in Dublin. He stayed there until his assignment to Washington.   read more

The latest figures show immigrants make up 49.7% of the 22 million Hispanics working in the U.S., as of last year. In 2007, just before the beginning of the downturn, the share of Hispanic immigrant workers was much higher, 56.1%. Since then, American-born Hispanics have gained the vast majority of the 2.8 million jobs captured by Hispanics over the past five years, with only 453,000 going to immigrants.   read more

The ruling did not apply to the team’s logo, which means it can still have a monopoly on marketing millions of dollars in merchandise with the team insignia. In the meantime, Native Americans and others continue to call on Dan Snyder, the team’s owner, to choose a new name. To date, Snyder has refused to budge on the issue and has sworn to fight the battle in court.   read more

The new ruling, which did away with the latter restriction, arose from the case of Edward Lane, an Alabama community college official who claimed he was fired for exposing a state lawmaker being paid without working. His whistleblower lawsuit was thrown out of court twice, once at the trial level and the second time by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. But the Supreme Court ruledin Lane’s favor.   read more

He went on to attend Tufts University in Boston, earning an M.A. in law and diplomacy and a Ph.D. in international relations in 1989 from that university’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1989. His dissertation was “The Man In Khaki—Debaser Or Developer?: The Thai Military In Politics, With Particular Reference To The 1976-1986 Period.” Isarabhakdi joined Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990,   read more

Lyrvall went to the European Union in Brussels in 2002, first as Sweden’s delegate to the enlargement negotiations, and then in 2003 as Sweden’s ambassador to the EU Political and Security Committee, remaining in that post until 2007. He returned to Stockholm to serve as director general for political affairs in the foreign ministry. He remained in that post until being sent to Washington.   read more

With funding from companies such as Exxon and Chief Oil, a Dallas science museum tiptoed around the topic of fossil fuels and climate change. Among the exhibits at the Perot Museum was a “Climate Change” display that never saw the light of day. Museum officials denied its scrapping had any connection to its oil and gas industry benefactors. Other science museums play down climate change to avoid controversy.   read more

Federal health officials are warning of a new threat to so-called “last resort” antibiotics used to treat patients with deadly infections. The CDC reported that a type of Asian squid being sold in Canada contains a highly resistant bacterium. Such "nightmare bacteria" are resistant to all antibiotics, including carbapenem, "the truly last of the few remaining last-resort antibiotics in the world." A patient with these bacteria who gets an infection might not have any options for a cure.   read more

Some neurological conditions such as autism and schizophrenia may be linked to exposure to air pollution, a new study shows. Experts at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that subjecting young mice to air pollution causes unhealthy changes in their brains--the same areas found in humans diagnosed with autism and schizophrenia. The changes occured more often in males, and other troubles like memory loss, learning disability and impulsivity became prevalent.   read more

The bipartisan bill, from Representatives Kevin Yoder and Jared Polis, stands a good chance of moving forward now that it has attracted support from 218 lawmakers. “Having a majority of house members supporting our bill shows House leadership that the bill would pass … if it was put on the house floor,” said Yoder. He and others say the law needs updating to better protect Americans’ rights under the Fourth Amendment. Supporters of the bill include the tech industry and privacy advocates.   read more

“The disbandment of the Colorado City/Hildale Marshal’s Office is necessary and appropriate because this police department has operated for decades, and continues to operate, as the de facto law enforcement arm of the FLDS Church,” said Arizona Attorney General Thomas Horne. The marshal’s office turned a blind eye to the group’s polygamist ways, enforced church edicts over secular law and has discriminated against church nonbelievers, claims former police chief Helaman Barlow.   read more

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the world’s leading powers continue not only to hold onto their nuclear weapon, but also modernize them in a sign that they will continue to be around for a long time to come. There are nearly 4,000 nuclear weapons deployed throughout the world, ready for launch within minutes of receiving the “go” code. Four countries control 3,970 of the weapons. The U.S. has 1,920, followed by Russia (1,600), the U.K. (160) and France (290).   read more

Raising the wages of low-paid workers normally doesn’t make headlines. But in an era of soaring corporate profits, executives of a Dallas hospital decided to spend money ticketed for their own benefit so employees at the lowest rung could receive a raise. Parkland Health & Hospital System announced it would elevate its own minimum wage from $8.78 to $10.25 an hour. Dr. Jim Dunn, the hospital’s executive vice president, said the decision was “the right thing to do.”   read more