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

Nancy Jo Powell, President Obama’s choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to India, has been a career member of the Foreign Service for 34 years and holds its highest rank, Career Ambassador. She has already served as ambassador to two other South ...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is creating a spy system that will allow it to monitor social media websites, including Facebook and Twitter.   FBI analysts are hoping to pick up tips about future terrorist threats by examining “public...   read more

At the urging of First Lady Michelle Obama, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has adopted the first substantial changes to school meals in 15 years.   The new standards, set out in a 280-page document, call for adding more vegetables and...   read more

Since 1970 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has lost 517 Moon rocks, meteorite samples and other “astromaterials.”  Some were loaned to researchers but never returned, while others were given as gifts to dignitaries, and st...   read more

Just weeks before his administration was due to submit a federal budget for Fiscal Year 2013, President Barack Obama on January 17 named Jeffrey Zients Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is the primary budget offic...   read more

The U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, a lightly-populated nation in Southern Africa which is the world’s leading producer of diamonds and suffers the world’s second highest HIV/AIDS infection rate, is a relatively young foreign policy expert who has sp...   read more

The federal government is responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars being spent each year by the largest American corporations. But it’s not tax dollars they’re spending. Rather, this sum represents the amount big business is allocating on l...   read more

 The arrests of more than two dozen journalists during the “Occupy” protests of 2011 are among the reasons why the United States saw its free-press ranking drop significantly in the latest report from Reporters Without Borders.   In the group’s ...   read more

A feed additive given to pigs is considered so bad that officials in China—producer of harmful toys, building materials and other suspects exports—has banned it. But ractopamine hydrochloride, a drug used to keep pigs lean and boost their growth, ...   read more

Florida State Senator John Thrasher believes professors from public universities and colleges should not be able to serve in the legislature, citing a potential conflict of interest whenever lawmakers take up bills impacting these institutions. So...   read more

A three-judge appellate court panel in Washington, DC, has revived a lawsuit brought by families against two district police officers accused of using excessive force against children.   While observing the Caribbean Carnival Parade on Georgia A...   read more

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has accused the Obama administration of deliberately misleading the public about how much oil gushed from the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.   Using the Freedom of Informa...   read more

Democrats in Congress were threatened last week by one of their former colleagues, ex-senator Christopher Dodd, who warned lawmakers they had better support controversial anti-piracy legislation or else risk losing Hollywood’s bounty of campaign c...   read more

The Obama administration is getting tough with employers who violate work-safety rules, imposing penalties never used until now.   For only the second time in the history of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA officials have ...   read more

The last U.S. Marine facing charges stemming from the November 19, 2005, Haditha massacre will lose some stripes, but not serve any time in jail after pleading guilty.   Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich entered a guilty plea on one count of derelic...   read more

Local, state and federal officials are investigating a century-old meatpacking plant in Texas after a local resident uncovered evidence using his unmanned aircraft. An unidentified man flying a small drone, appropriately called Exposure, captured ...   read more