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

Osama bin Laden is dead, and Ratko Mladić is under arrest, but terrorism and war crimes continue to dominate the list of the world’s most wanted fugitives.   War Criminals: Omar al-Bashir The president of Sudan, Bashir is the only current worl...   read more

Acknowledging the important place Wikipedia has established in the world of information, the National Archives has hired its first “Wikipedian in Residence.” Dominic McDevitt-Parks, 24, is a graduate student in history and archives management at...   read more

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for five years, Deborah A. P. Hersman took over the leadership of the NTSB for two years on July 28, 2009, at the relatively young age of 39. However, she was quite experienced with reg...   read more

Adrian Cosmin Vierita arrived in the United States to serve as Romania’s Ambassador to the U.S. on December 23, 2007.Vierita was born in Bucharest on July 4, 1962. He graduated the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna program of post-academic studies in...   read more

It’s not as famous as OxyContin, but the prescription drug Klonopin can be just as dangerous.   Around since 1975, Klonopin (clonazepam) was first prescribed to help epileptics control their seizures. Eventually, though, the medication was giv...   read more

A federal appeals court has sided with a group of Native American tribes who claim they have been shortchanged by the U.S. government for nearly two decades over money designated to support reservation life.   Under the 1975 Indian Self-Determ...   read more

Liliana Ayalde has served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay since August 5, 2008. Ayalde holds a bachelor’s degree from American University, and master’s degree in International Public Health from Tulane University. She is fluent in Sp...   read more

Rigoberto Gauto Vielman presented his credentials as Paraguay’s ambassador to the United States on February 24, 2010.   Gauto was born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1952. He graduated from Cristo Rey High School.   Between 1977 and 1990, he becam...   read more

Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, is suing a collection of American oil and pipeline companies claiming that they have purchased stolen natural gas products from drug cartels.   In the northeast of Mexico, drug bandits have been hijacking ...   read more

It may not be as alluring as California in some respects, but North Dakota has something that would make millions of Californians envious: jobs.   Bismarck and Fargo have the lowest unemployment rates in the nation: 2.9% and 3.7%, respectively...   read more

Even after costing American taxpayers $150 billion since their government takeover, public-private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should not be subject to greater public transparency, says their federal regulator.   Edward DeMarco,...   read more

An Iowa appeals court has voted 2-1 to reinstate a high school football coach who was fired after his team posted consecutive winless seasons.   The Jesup Community School District terminated Bruce Wall’s contract after the 2008 season. He beg...   read more

A special CD will go on sale next week in Atlanta, Georgia. Producers are not expecting it to make the Billboard Top 100.   The CD will have on it the oral arguments pertaining to a legal challenge to the federal health care reform law by the ...   read more

Having already been the victim of hackers of foreign origin, the Department of Defense has prepared a new doctrine declaring cyber-attacks an act of war that can warrant a conventional military response.   The development of the new cyber stra...   read more

Millions of people around the world could find themselves in the same predicament as the 172,000 Japanese who were forced to evacuate their homes because they lived within 30 kilometers (19 miles) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when ...   read more

Republican Governor Rick Scott signed the legislation that applies to anyone applying for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The program provides block grants to states with the goals of “promoting job preparation, work ...   read more