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

Thousands of sailors soon will be forced ashore permanently, once the U.S. Navy decides who to discharge into the ailing civilian economy.   Because of the weak job market, fewer sailors have been leaving the service. Only 28% are leaving afte...   read more

Fed up with the presence of illegal immigrants in their state, lawmakers in Georgia recently adopted legislation intended to drive such individuals “back home.”   In the process of doing so, politicians have crippled Georgia’s largest economic...   read more

Convicted criminals who previously entered into plea agreements can be allowed to reduce their sentences in situations where a sentencing guideline was later changed, said the U.S. Supreme Court this week.   The ruling stemmed from the case of W...   read more

Tired of expensive and poor service, cities across the United States have taken to investing in their own high-speed Internet services and dumping those offered by private telecommunications companies.   More than 50 cities own fiber networks ...   read more

Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest suppliers of chicken, pork and beef products, recently paid a multi-million dollar fine to the U.S. government for bribing foreign nationals. But no company officials were singled out for blame or prosecut...   read more

Paul W. Jones, a career member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia on September 8, 2010.   Born in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1960, Jones graduated fro...   read more

Critics of President Barack Obama have had an easy time recently throwing his own words back at him on tough issues like raising the national debt and being involved in Libya.   As president, Obama wants Congress to lift the national debt limi...   read more

Getting out of Guantánamo and going free is no longer a possibility for many detainees even after they have won legal battles in lower federal courts.   Those victories have repeatedly been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for ...   read more

A new species of mushroom discovered in Borneo has been named SpongeBob SquarePants by researchers. The fungus, Spongiforma squarepantsii, was found by biologists from San Francisco State University during an expedition to Borneo’s forests. They...   read more

Pamela L. Spratlen was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic on April 15, 2011.   She was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Washington State and California. Her father, Thaddeus Spratlen, was a professor in the Department of Mark...   read more

Oleksandr Motsyk was took over as Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States on June 11, 2010.   Motsyk was born on May 3, 1955, in the village of Horodets Volodymeretskoho, in the Rivne region of the Ukraine. In 1981 he graduated from Kyiv Sta...   read more

Half of the senior citizens of the United Kingdom have been taking prescription drugs that can impair brain function or cause death, according to a new medical study of 13,000 people aged 65 or older. Researchers from the University of East Angl...   read more

China’s government may be Communist, but that doesn’t mean the country as a whole is. Not by a long shot.   The latest figures on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership show that 80 million Chinese are members. That’s a lot of people—almost ...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck is on the hook to pay $473 million to the IRS for taxes owed by its newest acquisition, Schering-Plough.   Following an audit in 2004, IRS officials determined that Schering-Plough, manufacturer of such drugs ...   read more

Namik Tan has served as Turkey’s ambassador to the United States since February 2010.   Born in 1956 in Mardin, Tan graduated from the University of Ankara with a law degree.   He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and worked in ...   read more

Attorney Narcís Casal de Fonsdeviela has served as ambassador of the tiny European nation of Andorra to the United States since November 2, 2009. He had already been serving as Andorra’s representative to the United Nations since September of th...   read more