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

These days a company’s positive Internet review may be nothing more than paid phoniness, as the competition for good feedback has encouraged businesses to hire individuals to write something nice about them.   From Amazon to Citysearch to Yelp...   read more

American Christianity has distorted the original teachings of Jesus, says Gregory Paul, an independent researcher in sociology and evolution, who insists that if the savior were alive today, he’d probably be a socialist.   Paul argues that man...   read more

Michael D. Lumpkin was sworn in as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) on April 25, 2011. In this job, Lumpkin assists the Assistant Secretary of Defense (SO/LIC) in developi...   read more

Career diplomat Frankie Annette Reed has been chosen to serve as ambassador to the Pacific island nations of Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru. Her Senate confirmation hearing was held on June 29, 2011, and she was confirmed on August 3. ...   read more

Exxon Mobil is at risk of losing its rights to what might turn out to be the largest oil discovery ever in the Gulf of Mexico, which is why the oil behemoth is suing the federal government.   The problem for Exxon is that it allowed its leases...   read more

An examination of nearly 200 advertisements by researchers found that the vast majority of those published in medical trade journals were not compliant with federal government rules governing the marketing of pharmaceuticals.   Of the 192 ads ...   read more

When is raising $100,000 in a week a disappointment for a grass-roots campaign? When the goal is to collect $50 million.   That’s the sad news for supporters of Arizona’s border-fence initiative. Feeling compelled to seal off their state to th...   read more

After 30 years in the Foreign Service, Arnold A. Chacon received his first appointment as ambassador, to Guatemala, in June 2011. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 2.   Originally from Denver, Chacon is a graduate of the University of C...   read more

Chan Heng Chee has served as Singapore’s ambassador to the United States since July 1996.     Born circa 1942, Chan Heng Chee earned her B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1964 and 1966, respe...   read more

The whole point of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to keep tabs on Wall Street, by making sure banks and other financial institutions and firms are abiding by the law. If suspected of not behaving lawfully, then investigations ar...   read more

In yet another effort to restrict the availability of the medical procedure, conservatives in Kansas are trying to ban insurance companies from providing elective abortion coverage.   The new law, adopted by the state legislature and supported...   read more

On top of the fact that many large banks rescued in 2008 failed to provide substantial assistance to struggling homeowners and small businesses, many of the same institutions are now gobbling up tax liens from teetering homeowners, which may exa...   read more

Having already spent heavily on security contractors to protect diplomats, the State Department has now taken over a $230 million contract from the U.S. Army for L-3 Communications to conduct intelligence gathering in Iraq.   The transfer was ...   read more

Teenagers from Gaza hoping to study in the U.S. have been forbidden to leave, on orders from Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip.   Eight students were given AMIDEAST scholarships to spend a year in America. But, according to the P...   read more

They supervised a controversial program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug traffickers, all in the name of law enforcement tracking, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials still managed to get p...   read more

The dictionary defines combat as “to oppose in battle; fight against” or “to engage in fighting.” On August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama announced that the United States’ combat mission in Iraq was finished. However, based on what the U.S. m...   read more