President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

A lawyer, academic, and politician, Felipe Bulnes became Chile’s ambassador to the United States in May 2012.   Bulnes was born in Santiago on May 27, 1969, to lawyer Francisco Bulnes Ripamonti and journalist Maria Teresa Serrano. The ambassador...   read more

Career diplomat Josip Paro began his appointment as Croatia’s ambassador to the United States in 2012, presenting his credentials to President Barack Obama on May 2.   Paro holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and comparative literature from ...   read more

Fruit Roll-Ups and other manufactured fruit snacks by General Mills do not contain real fruit, but that’s okay, said a federal judge ruling in a lawsuit seeking an end to the misleading advertising.   Bay Area mother Annie Lam filed a class acti...   read more

In another sign of the coming end of the United States’ Caucasian orientation, the majority of babies born last year were minorities—a first in American history.   Just over half (50.4%) of the U.S. population younger than age 1 were minorities ...   read more

Lawmakers in North Carolina want to prohibit inmates on death row from watching television.   The legislation, which cleared the state’s House Rules committee this week, was introduced after a convicted murderer described his “life of leisure” w...   read more

Energy-rich Azerbaijan, strategically located south of Russia and north of Iran, has become accustomed to being wooed by both Russia and the United States, especially when it comes to energy development. With relations hampered by the lack of a fu...   read more

An economist and international development specialist, Paul G. Altidor was named as Haiti’s ambassador to the United States in January 2012 and presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on May 2.   Altidor, 39, was born in the port cit...   read more

A New York federal judge has temporarily blocked provisions of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act approved by President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011, which allows the military to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, inclu...   read more

Update: See link to NRC response below.   The holidays are a time of celebration for Americans, and a perfect time for their government to bury controversial changes in policy.   That’s what apparently happened last December when the Nuclear R...   read more

In what some are calling the “Shareholder Spring,” the owners of large corporations and banks are letting CEOs know that they’re getting paid too much compensation through so-called Say-on-Pay votes.   It’s a battle of shareholders, or the top 1...   read more

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Prolonged unemployment for older Americans has become a serious problem with both immediate and long-term consequences.   As of December 2011, approximately 3.65 million older Americans were unemployed or underemployed. For workers age 50 and ol...   read more

The 2012 election is shaping up to be ugly, with considerably more negative advertisements than the election four years ago. It’s no surprise that campaigns are relying more on attack ads, for the simple reason that research shows going negative i...   read more

The Small Business Administration (SBA), which has nothing to do with regulating harmful chemicals, has sided with large manufacturers opposing the government’s listing of formaldehyde as a carcinogen.   Within the SBA is the Office of Advocacy,...   read more

When the Obama administration ran interference and helped to get a huge legal case settled against the nation’s largest banks over mortgage fraud and improper foreclosures, more than $2 billion in cash was sent to the states to help struggling hom...   read more

Norman and Oriane Rousseau’s American dream of owning a home turned into a tragic nightmare involving Wells Fargo.   In 2000, the Rousseaus purchased a home in Newbury Park, California, putting down 30%—their life savings. Six years later, they ...   read more