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

The heart attack rate in New Orleans was three times higher in 2009 than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck four years earlier, according to a new medical study.   Prior to August 2005, when the storm hit, heart attacks represented 0.7% of...   read more

American victims of a foreign terrorist attack cannot take possession of ancient artifacts belonging to Iran, ruled a U.S. federal appeals court this week in a long-running legal battle.   The case stems from a September 4, 1997, triple suicid...   read more

In less than three years, Pointer Media Network has become a behemoth in the world of consumer tracking. The company claims to monitor 76% of American households to learn what people buy, so it can sell this information to retailers hawking thei...   read more

Hailed as a scientific breakthrough, scientists at MIT say they have developed the first artificial “leaf” that could revolutionize solar energy production and positively impact lives in the developing world.   The advanced solar cell, no bigg...   read more

Here is one more example that the gap between the super-wealthy in the United States and the rest of Americans is growing wider and wider.   A group of 25 hedge fund executives in 2010 managed to earn a combined $22.1 billion—an amount equivalen...   read more

Three employees of Transocean, owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, have refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.   The U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, ...   read more

For the first time in more than a quarter century, the Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to change the definitions of small businesses with respect to government contracting. The new rules could result in 9,450 additional companies, most...   read more

There is a saying that “There are no atheists in foxholes,” meaning that in times of war, every soldier believes in God. Wrong. A group of atheists, agnostics, humanists and others based at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg have formed an organization ...   read more

Since April 2010, Craig N. McLean has served as Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which is an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   McLean grew up on the Pass...   read more

It turns out that going into banking during the last decade really paid off (literally), regardless of the effects that the financial crisis and the succeeding Great Recession had on the rest of the economy.   Average compensation for bank emp...   read more

Whether it’s $30 billion, $60 billion or $100 billion, slashing the federal budget means cutting back on a lot of programs. But farm subsidies are not facing the axe, and having nearly two dozen lawmakers receiving such financial support may hav...   read more

With the military situation in Iraq no longer requiring the same demand for explosives experts, the U.S. Army is back to finding out the best bomb disposal soldiers it has.   This week, the Army conducted its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team o...   read more

Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al-Mughairy became ambassador of Oman to the United States on December 2, 2005.   Al-Mughairy obtained a B.A in Business Communications from the High Politechnical Institute, Cairo and a Master’s degree in Economics from t...   read more

Perezi K. Kamunanwire has served as Uganda’s ambassador to the United States since May 15, 2006. He previously served as ambassador to Austria, Germany, and the Holy See (1986-1988), and as Uganda’s permanent representative to the United Nations...   read more

No wonder the Federal Reserve fought so hard to keep secret the names of banks that were bailed out during the height of the financial crisis of 2008. The biggest recipients were foreign—not American—institutions that benefited from hundreds of ...   read more

In a move described as “crazy stupid” by one supporter, President Barack Obama decided to accept an award for government transparency—behind closed doors.   Obama was supposed to receive the honor from good-government advocates a couple weeks ...   read more