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

David Turkheimer is suing his former employer, pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co., because he was fired—either because he crashed his car while sleepwalking or he refused to do his boss’ biding and illegally market a drug.   According to ...   read more

Afraid of potential backlash from the public, supervisors at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) manipulated the performance evaluation process for employees in order to avoid awarding raises and bonuses that might be seen as excessive in light of th...   read more

The Acting Director of the Office of Indian Education since August 2010, Jenelle Leonard has more than 30 years of experience as an educator, including work as a public school teacher and administrator, a technology implementation and training c...   read more

Saddled with almost a quarter of a million foreclosed homes, the federal government is looking for ways to turn the empty properties into rental opportunities.   The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Developme...   read more

Accused of perpetrating a “profound evil,” former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile-prison developer while he spent years incarcerating thousands of youn...   read more

Fifteen years after it was accused of illegally testing a drug on children, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer began this week to pay compensation to families in Nigeria.   During an outbreak of meningitis in 1996, Pfizer injected about 200 children ...   read more

A career diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East, Michael H. Corbin was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on May 5, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on June 30. He was swo...   read more

Drought conditions have devastated nearly all of the range and pasture land in Oklahoma and Texas, forcing ranchers to buy feed to maintain their herds or else face the prospect of “liquidating” them.   At least nine states have lost the use o...   read more

Since his days as head of the CIA, John Deutch has earned more than $1 million serving on the boards of energy companies. The problem with this, say environmentalists and scientists, is that Deutch has been chairing Energy Secretary Stephen Chu’s ...   read more

Medical journals over the past decade have had to retract a rising number of articles, in part because there are more publications, but also due to problems of fraud.   While the number of papers published since 2001 in research journals incre...   read more

The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, Fay Hartog Levin, announced on August 8 that she is resigning her post effective September and returning to Chicago.   One of many Chicagoans tapped by President Barack Obama to join his administration, ...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, William H. Moser was selected by President Barack Obama to be the United States’ next ambassador to Moldova on May 5, 2011, and he was confirmed by the Senate on August 2.   Born and raised in Nor...   read more

In an attempt to piggyback on the landmark Citizens United ruling, two foreign nationals tried unsuccessfully in federal court to force open American elections to overseas political contributions.   Benjamin Bluman a Canadian citizen, and Dr. ...   read more

Civil unrest can be brought about by a government’s change in economic policy, specifically efforts to reduce spending or impose harsh austerity measures. Researchers at the Centre for Economic Policy Research reviewed historical data from the 1...   read more

The rise of income inequality in the United States, with the rich accumulating greater and greater proportions of the nation’s wealth, has created opportunities for ex-military and police to become guardians of the upper strata.   According to...   read more

Sprint Nextel Corp. has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $600,000 to victims of the June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.   The order arose out of a lawsuit filed by families of those who died in the terrorist a...   read more