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

When flight attendants aboard American Airlines planes announce it’s time to put away all electronic portable devices, at least two of them will still be in use.   In the cockpit.   American has decided to replace their paper flight manuals wi...   read more

The U.S. prison population, the world’s largest, got a little smaller last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.   The total number of inmates in U.S. prisons from 2009 to 2010 decreased by 9,228, the first such decline since 1972. ...   read more

This year has witnessed the fewest number of prisoners sentenced to death since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1976, while support for the death penalty fell to a 39-year low.   To date, only 78 death sentences have been imposed on pri...   read more

Dr. Julio Armando Martini Herrera, a career diplomat in the Guatemala Foreign Service, took over as Ambassador of Guatemala to the United States on August 5, 2011. He presented his credentials to President Obama on September 9, 2011.   Over the ...   read more

Appointed July 28, 2010, Mohamed Lemine Ould El Haycen presented his credentials to President Barack Obama as Mauritania’s ambassador to the United States on August 10, 2010.   Born in 1954 in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, El Haycen earned a degree at...   read more

The U.S. Marine Corps has been accused of pumping up the heroic story of Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.   Meyer was awarded the military’s most distinguished honor in September at a Whi...   read more

Democrat Jon Corzine of New Jersey has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first former U.S. senator to testify in a Senate investigation, thanks to the scandal that has rocked the investment firm MF Global.   The Senate Committee o...   read more

An independent assessment of how public schools are performing under the No Child Left Behind law has found nearly half of them are failing to perform as required—a number that’s significantly lower than the total claimed by the Obama administrati...   read more

It won’t be long before those married in the United States constitute less than a majority of all adults.   Today, barely more than half of all adults (51%) are married, according to the Pew Research Center. This rate is the lowest on record, as...   read more

Saying there’s no point wasting money to make money, the Obama administration has decided to cancel production of commemorative presidential one dollar coins as part of its efforts to reduce government spending.   The U.S Mint is expected to sav...   read more

There’s the “One Percent,” and then there’s the “One Percent of the One Percent” when talking about campaign fundraising.   American elections these days are funded to a significant degree by a relatively small group of wealthy individuals, acco...   read more

In a battle of corporate food titans, some of the United States’ largest egg suppliers are being sued by national food companies over claims of anti-trust activity. The plaintiffs are Kraft Foods, Kellogg, General Mills and Nestlé, while the defen...   read more

Thanks in part to its “wildly unpopular” debit-card fee idea, Bank of America now ranks last among major banks for customer satisfaction.   BofA’s score of 68 (on a scale of 0 to 100) put it dead last among major banks, according to The American...   read more

The Obama administration’s aggressive deportation program has resulted in a growing number of U.S. citizens being detained by authorities.   Americans arrested have gotten caught up in the controversial Secure Communities program, which checks t...   read more

Dorli Rainey of Seattle, Washington, and Ruthelle Frank of Brokaw, Wisconsin, have something unusual in common—each, at the age of 84, suffered at the hands of their government for trying to practice their constitutional rights.   Rainey is the ...   read more

Ohio is not exactly earthquake country, and yet the area near Youngstown has been struck nine times in eight months by seismic activity.   Critics of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used to capture underground supplies of natural gas blame it...   read more