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

On May 25, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Matthew J. Bryza to serve as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan. Bryza is a veteran Foreign Service officer well-versed in the politics of the Caspian region, whose previous assignment put him in charge...   read more

The mother of invention is currently stuck in traffic, waiting for the long line ahead to clear up. That about sums up the patent system today in the U.S., where an inventor can wait up to three years to hear back from the U.S. Patent and Tradem...   read more

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has decided to issue permits to humanitarian groups seeking to establish water stations on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona so that illegal immigrants crossing the border don’t ...   read more

A business executive from the publishing and timber industries, Theodore “Tod” Sedgwick has no experience as a foreign diplomat. But the chosen ambassador to Slovakia has donated substantially to Democratic candidates, especially to President Bara...   read more

Tiger Woods has nothing on Gaius Appuleius Diocles. While the famed golfer closes in on earning a billion dollars playing his sport, Woods would still have a long way to go before his winnings come close to Diocles, ancient Rome’s most famous char...   read more

If a U.S. government computer comes under attack, the incentive is most likely money, not terrorism. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) at the Department of Homeland Security found that 90% of incidents of computer attacks in the...   read more

Terence P. McCulley, selected by President Barack Obama on June 28, 2010, to serve as ambassador to Nigeria, is a member of the Senior Foreign Service whose diplomatic career has been spent mostly in Africa or working on African issues. He was con...   read more

Wealthy Americans who think the financial crisis is over might want to consider what happened in Atlanta on Wednesday. Housing officials there got more than they expected when the application period for public housing assistance opened, drawing a ...   read more

Watching cable news is not for the young. A new Nielsen survey shows Fox News has the oldest audience, averaging 65 years of age. CNN was right behind Fox, with a median audience age of 63, followed by MSNBC (59) and CNBC (52). The same survey sho...   read more

In need of a new trade to make money for their monastery, the Benedictine monks of Saint Joseph Abbey in Covington, Louisiana, took up casketing-making a few years ago to help support themselves. But then the state board that regulates the funeral...   read more

J. (John) Dudley Butler, a longtime attorney from Mississippi, took over as administrator of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) on May 11, 2009, following his appointment by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. D...   read more

Anthony Marion (Tony) Babauta was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs on September 10, 2009.  He oversees federal administration of the United States possessions of Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas I...   read more

One-fifth of the human genome is currently controlled by companies that have received patents issued by the U.S. government. More than 40,000 gene patents have been awarded to biotechnology businesses, with even more on the way, what with three mi...   read more

Advocates for changing American immigration law received new information to fuel their argument that children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. should not receive automatic citizenship. A study released by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that ...   read more

Credit cards are no longer the biggest personal debt problem for Americans. As of June, outstanding student loans totaled $829.8 billion, while credit card debt was $826.5 billion. Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, told The...   read more

Nearly 2,000 civil rights complaints were filed against employees of the Department of Justice in the first half of 2010, but the agency’s inspector general only bothered to investigate one of the cases. The IG reported that almost all of the 1,99...   read more