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

Muktar Djumaliev became ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States in December 2010.   Born on June 22, 1972, Djumaliev earned an undergraduate economics degree from the National University of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1994, and three years la...   read more

During the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve made short-term loans worth at least $100 billion to banks without bothering to tell shareholders or Congress. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), who co-authored the 2010 financial regulat...   read more

In addition to bungling its job looking for billion-dollar Wall Street fraudsters, such as Bernard Madoff, or allowing employees to surf for porn, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) itself broke the law by buying faulty computers.   ...   read more

Recent cases of American Muslims arrested for plotting terrorist acts were little more than government entrapment operations, says a study from New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.   Three terrorism cases in New Yo...   read more

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s largest organization providing free books to children, has lost all of its federal funding as a result of the budget deal between President Barack Obama and House Republicans. Federal funding has surviv...   read more

A scientist and long-time government official, Meret Bayramovich Orazov has served as Turkmenistan’s ambassador to the United States since February 2001. He began his government involvement during the period when Turkmenistan was part of the Sov...   read more

Vermont is on its way to establishing the nation’s first single-payer health care system—the proposed national version of which is known as “Medicare for All.” But how the state actually gets there and begins operating the program is unclear, beca...   read more

The National Archives has finally decided to declassify the Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force—aka the Pentagon Papers—after excerpts of the document were first published 40 years ago by The New York Times.   But the 7,000-page edition will ...   read more

World peace has been on a downward trend in recent years, according to an annual gauge of domestic and foreign conflict.   The 2011 edition of the Global Peace Index, produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, concludes that the levels...   read more

Meera Shankar has served as India’s ambassador to the United States since April 2009.   Born October 9, 1950, Shankar joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1973.   She gradually rose up in rank, and by 1985, was serving as a director in ...   read more

Mauro Vieira presented his credentials as Brazil’s ambassador to the United States in January 2010.   Vieira was born on February 15, 1952, in Niterói in the state of Rio de Janeiro. He earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the Universidade F...   read more

Before Congress passed the reauthorization of the Patriot Act on Thursday, two Democratic U.S. senators objected that some provisions of the law give the government broad authority to secretly spy on Americans.   But what those provisions enta...   read more

In opposing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the release of prisoners from California penitentiaries, Justice Antonin Scalia unleashed a blistering dissent this week that characterized the majority opinion as a “judicial travesty.”   ...   read more

Once the United States removed Libya in 2006 from its list of states sponsoring terrorism, American banks and investment houses jumped at the chance to handle some of the country’s lucrative oil revenue.   An internal document produced by the ...   read more

The American Action Network is not nearly the voice of the masses as it has claimed.   Although it bills itself as a “network,” tax filings by the so-called Republican grassroots organization for 2010 have revealed it accepted $2.75 million in...   read more

Spent nuclear fuel rods, which have garnered considerable attention since the nuclear plant crisis in Japan, represent an even larger threat in the United States, home of the world’s largest collection of radioactive refuse.   The Institute fo...   read more