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

The federal government is not getting the disclosure it had hoped for clinical trials when it mandated four years ago that researchers register studies of prescription drugs and report results on ClinicalTrials.gov.   Of the studies submitted ...   read more

Since August 2011, the Acting Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been David R. Shipman, who has more than thirty-five years’ experience in agricultural administration.   Born circ...   read more

Reverend Abednego Mandla Ntshangase has served as the ambassador to the United States from the Kingdom of Swaziland since May 1, 2010. Impoverished and landlocked, Swaziland is the only African country still ruled by a royal family. It is border...   read more

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) made it perfectly clear in its 972-page report on the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine that owner Massey Energy was to blame for the “preventable” disaster.   Twenty-nine miners died in the explosion...   read more

The partial remains of more than 270 American soldiers were twice-burned before they were discarded into a landfill, according to the latest development in the U.S. Air Force controversy.   Air Force leaders admitted this week that the number ...   read more

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has raised the issue of changing “stupid” child labor laws in the U.S. because, he says, those from poor families don’t understand the value of work. While Gingrich, his supporters and detractors d...   read more

It took a feat of spectacular incompetence on the part of both prosecutors and defense attorneys, but a court in Houston, Texas, managed to convict a man for armed robbery even though he was in jail at the time of the crime.   During his trial...   read more

On October 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint as ambassador to the small West African nation of Togo a veteran diplomat who has spent years focusing on Africa–US relations.   Born circa 1954 in Indiana, Robert E. Wh...   read more

The Obama administration created an uproar in women’s health circles on Wednesday when Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to allow the Plan B emergency contracept...   read more

Japan’s government is being criticized for spending some of its earthquake disaster relief funds on its whaling fleet, which has struggled to meet its quotas due to harassment from conservationists.   The Fisheries Agency plans to spend an ext...   read more

Halliburton has been accused of destroying evidence that might have indicated it was partly responsible for the fatal oil well blowout that occurred on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico.   The accusation was leveled by BP, which together w...   read more

Firefighters in South Fulton, Tennessee, have done it again—allowing a home to burn to the ground because the owners didn’t pay for the local fire protection fee.   Resident Vicky Bell called 911 on Monday after her mobile home caught fire. Fi...   read more

Scientists for decades have been freezing thousands of endangered species samples in the hopes of preventing extinction for many plants and animals.   The San Diego Zoo has used cryogenics since 1972 to preserve skin cells from rare and endang...   read more

Going after criminal cases targeting fraud has come down to what’s easier to prosecute for the Obama administration.   While Americans of all stripes have clamored for justice in the wake of the financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice h...   read more

The islands of Maldives in the Indian Ocean are famous for their white sands, turquoise waters and tourism, which accounts for 28% of the nation’s gross domestic product. A full 90% of government tax revenue comes from import duties and tourism-re...   read more

Alpha Natural Resources has been ordered to pay the largest penalty ever for a mining disaster. The company will pay $209 million in restitution and civil and criminal penalties for owning Massey Energy, the notorious mining business that operated...   read more