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

Organized labor isn’t the only target of newly-elected Republican governors this year. Environmental laws also are within the GOP sights.   Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has crafted a 63-point plan to cut environmental regulations, which incl...   read more

A special unit created in 2009 by the IRS to audit wealthy Americans with foreign assets has investigated only 13 tax returns to date.   The Global High Wealth Industry Group of the IRS audited two returns in fiscal year 2010 and 11 during the...   read more

For Jorge Ramón Hernández Alcerro, serving as Honduras’ ambassador to the United States seems like old times, having already served in this capacity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His current stint began on May 5, 2010. The year before, he h...   read more

America’s wealthy plan to increase their spending on luxury goods this year, forking out $26.6 billion more than in 2010, according to an American Express Publishing and Harrison Group survey of 1,458 families with more than $100,000 that can be...   read more

Michael Ferreira, who is now 57 years old, will be arraigned in juvenile court in Massachusetts for a murder he is charged with committing more than 40 years ago, when he was 16. He was arrested in New Hampshire and is awaiting extradition.   ...   read more

Migrant workers from Vietnam have sued in U.S. federal court over being mistreated in America by Vietnamese companies.   The lawsuit targets International Investment Trade and Service group (Interserco) and General Automotive Industry Corp. of...   read more

Gabriel Silva Luján began his second stint as Colombia’s ambassador to the United States in August 2010. He previously held this post in the mid-1990s.   Silva was born on October 5, 1957, in Barranquilla. One of nine children, he completed hi...   read more

An economist by trade with extensive experience in international finance and banking, György Szapáry took over as Hungary’s ambassador to the United States in January 2011. This marks the first diplomatic post of his career.   The grandson of ...   read more

Less than half of all Americans were part of the workforce last year, raising concerns about the nation’s long-term ability to support itself.   Only 45.4% of the U.S. population had jobs in 2010, marking the lowest rate since 1983. Also, only...   read more

Fans of Elvis Presley living in Europe need not travel to Tennessee to get a glimpse of Graceland.   A replica of the King’s home has been built in Randers, Denmark, although this Graceland is actually twice the size of the original so it can ...   read more

China’s government has had it with movies in which protagonists go back in time and fall in love. Such films have become popular lately with Chinese television watchers, leading cultural authorities to scrutinize the trendy entertainment. Li Jin...   read more

Gabriele Weber, a freelance journalist from Germany who has investigated Nazi war criminals and human rights violations in South America, has been permanently denied entry into the United States.   The U.S. government has refused to give a spe...   read more

An academic turned diplomat, Alia Hatoug-Bouran became Jordan’s first female ambassador prior to assuming her post in the United States on September 14, 2010.   Born in Amman, Bouran earned her Bachelor of Science degree (1979) and Master of S...   read more

Following the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s, more than a thousand bank officials faced prosecution, with 800 of them winding up in jail for their financial misdeeds that ruined institutions and robbed Americans of their retirement. ...   read more

The great budget reduction negotiated by Republican leaders and President Barack Obama may not be so large after all. In fact, it might just be pretty darn small.   An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has concluded the real savings ...   read more

American Airlines and United Airlines along with two airport security firms will have to pay a $1.2 billion settlement for damage caused to property during the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.   Approved by the Second Cir...   read more