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 study from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has concluded that sufferers of Gulf War Syndrome have noticeable abnormalities in their brains’ blood flow. The researchers also discovered that for many veterans, the circulatory...   read more

Congress has begun considering the issue of whether the U.S. military has too many high-ranking officers for a shrinking enlisted corps.   There are 964 flag and general officers in the armed services today, compared to 1,017 when the Cold War...   read more

Attorney and lobbyist Mark Brzezinski was nominated on September 6, 2011, by President Barack Obama to be the next U.S. ambassador to Sweden, replacing Matthew Barzun, who was one of Obama’s biggest campaign bundlers during the 2008 presidential c...   read more

United States law demands that the government limit the amount of executive salaries earned by companies with federal contracts. But the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy has not set the limit for fiscal year...   read more

For the second time in 11 years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered television networks to provide audio descriptions of actions on screen to assist blind and visually impaired viewers.   The FCC issued similar rules in 20...   read more

The end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has impacted not only the soldiers of today, but those who served nearly 70 years ago.   In 1944, Melvin Dwork was kicked out of the U.S. Navy for being gay (apparently turned in by his boyfriend at the time ...   read more

Career diplomat Lisa J. Kubiske received her first chance to become an ambassador on July 26, 2011, when she was sworn in as ambassador to Honduras.   Born Lisa Shapiro, Kubiske attended college at Brandeis University, where during her junior ...   read more

Daniel Ohene Agyekum, a political insider who is no stranger to controversy, has been the ambassador to the United States from Ghana since October 19, 2009.    Born March 10, 1942, at Juaso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, which was then a Brit...   read more

Republican lawmakers in Arizona, including Gov. Jan Brewer, went beyond their authority when they diverted more than $50 million meant for public transit projects to other purposes.   In response to a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Center for La...   read more

The Department of the Interior has agreed to a potentially landmark settlement with environmentalists that will impact more than 700 species considered threatened or endangered.   By 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service promises to decide ...   read more

Like many Americans, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a problem with storage—as in too much of it.   An audit of IRS spending found the agency has been allocating $862,000 a year to store old furniture and other equipment in warehouses. ...   read more

Colonel Glenn R. Huber Jr. has served as commandant of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) at Fort Benning, Georgia, since July 29, 2010. He last served with WHINSEC in 2001, when he was a department director and ...   read more

David Mohlomi Rantekoa has served as ambassador of Lesotho to the United States since May 21, 2008. Lesotho, a nation of 2 million people, is completely surrounded by South Africa.   Born May 2, 1953, Rantekoa graduated from the National Unive...   read more

While more than one party played a role in the disaster, oil giant BP deserved the largest share of blame for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, says a new federal report.   In assessing the April 20 blowout and explosion that produced the wor...   read more

Two weeks before the Obama administration granted its first green-energy loan guarantee in 2009 to Solyndra Inc., an analyst in the U.S. Department of Energy warned that the solar-panel manufacturer would run out of money by September 2011.   ...   read more

When it comes to essential materials needed for so much of modern living, China wields considerable leverage over the consumerist appetite of the Western world.   Many of the critical elements required for manufacturing that are now deemed at-...   read more