Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission announced that judges for its Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back contest selected a first place winner for the $25,000 cash prize for building a mobile app that blocks and forwards robocalls to a crowd-sourced honeypot.

Washington, DC - Joshua D. Wright, who has served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission since January 2013, will resign his position with his last day as a commissioner on Monday, August 24, 2015.

Chicago, Illinois - University of California, Davis, sociology faculty and students will present about 20 papers at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Chicago August 22 – 25, with much scholarship focusing on issues of the poor and under-represented.

Washington, DC - The Justice Department today released its first annual report following former Attorney General Eric Holder’s pledge in February 2014 to make public information related to law enforcement requests for information from, or records of, members of the news media.

Berkeley, California - In the 1960s, the Republican Party launched the Southern strategy – the use of coded racialized appeals to gain white votes.

Washington, DC - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 50 fugitives sought for their roles in known or suspected human rights violations during a nationwide operation this week.