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

A career librarian and administrator, Susan H. Hildreth was nominated to be director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) by President Barack Obama in September 2010. Confirmed by the Senate on December 22, she assumed the posi...   read more

In the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, attention in the United States has turned to the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey, home of the country’s oldest reactor.   Oyster Creek features a GE Mark I Boiling Water reactor which is identica...   read more

In a move that likely will please conservatives, the Obama administration is moving ahead with its plan to expand the government’s power to hold terrorism suspects longer without issuing a Miranda warning.   Law enforcement is required to imme...   read more

As many as 20,000 endangered rockhopper penguins are at risk in a remote part of the South Atlantic where a cargo ship crashed and split into two, causing 1,600 tons of heavy fuel oil to spill into the ocean.   The penguins live on the Tristan...   read more

Chile’s ambassador to the United States since June 21, 2010, Arturo Fermandois Vöhringer is an attorney, professor and lover of music who plays in a rock band.   Born on October 14, 1962, in Santiago, Fermandois graduated in 1987 with a law de...   read more

Ilhom Nematov has served as Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the United States since February 2010.   Born on May 1, 1952, Nematov graduated from Fergana Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He holds a PhD in economics.   From 1973 to 1978, he was the h...   read more

Nuclear waste from nuclear power plants has been piling up across the United States since the Eisenhower administration—a problem that politicians have failed to permanently resolve and must again address in the wake of Japan’s radiation nightma...   read more

Barely two months into their administrations, several newly-elected politicians have seen their approval ratings plummet due to early missteps or controversial policies.   For several Republican governors embarked on tough budget-cutting bluep...   read more

The anti-dictatorship movement spreading through the Arab world has now reached Syria, a nation with which the United States has had a mixed history—denouncing the Syrian government and military as supporters of terrorism, while at the same time...   read more

Banks are crying over changes in debit card fees set to take effect this summer, claiming the new federal restriction will be too much to bear and force them to offer fewer deals to consumers.   At issue are what’s known as interchange fees—th...   read more

For the first time in the auction world, China last year topped the United States and the United Kingdom as the biggest seller of art.   Chinese public auctions in 2010 accounted for 33% of worldwide global fine art sales (everything from pain...   read more

What once was the fourth largest city in America has turned into the fastest shrinking city in U.S. history: Detroit, Michigan.   New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that Detroit lost 25% of its population last decade—the largest de...   read more

The American public may soon learn which banks were bailed out with $3.5 trillion of emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the hairiest days of the 2008 financial crisis.   After a two-year legal battle, the banking industry lost its...   read more

What was intended to help improve the infrastructure of a poor developing nation has turned into a convenient means of moving lucrative narcotics toward the United States—and all paid for with American tax dollars.   Cutting across northern El...   read more

Bahrain’s monarchy, which has been brutally cracking down on protesters seeking political reform in the tiny oil sheikdom, has turned to two American public relations firms in Washington, DC, to help improve the government’s profile.   In mid-...   read more

There are a lot of reasons why couples divorce, but the problem that motivated the president of Guatemala and his wife is unusual…the desire to create a political dynasty.   Guatemala’s first lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, wants so badly to run...   read more