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

Ex-Sheriff Booked into Jail Named after Him The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself. The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to withdraw rules limiting the use of human antibiotics in animal feed, much to the dismay of environmental and consumer groups.   The FDA used the holiday season to quietly make the policy chan...   read more

The royal family of Saudi Arabia will receive more than 80 jet fighters from the United States as part of a $29.4 billion arms deal approved by the Obama administration.   Eighty-four new F-15SA Strike Eagle fighters will be delivered to the Sau...   read more

The civil case against the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program by the National Security Agency (NSA) has been resurrected by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle because the federal government may have conducte...   read more

SEC Censors Document on How It Censors Documents The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in September 2010 seeking the new guidelines handed out t...   read more

U.S. Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte is returning home from El Salvador after Senate Republicans refused to confirm her appointment.   President Barack Obama nominated Puerto Rican-born Aponte on December 9, 2009, and she was approved by the Senat...   read more

Chinese TV Passes Off Footage from “Top Gun” as Chinese Military Drill China Central Television, a government-sponsored broadcaster, recently aired footage purportedly of a Chinese J-10 fighter demonstrating its air-to-air combat prowess. In the ...   read more

14 Notable Nicknames of Mobsters Arrested in FBI Sweep Although we are well into the 21st century, it is reassuring to know that many gangsters have not lost their taste for traditional mob nicknames. 1. Anthony “Tony Bagels” Cavezza 2. Jack “J...   read more

The federal government is being sued by multiple Vietnam veterans’ organizations for allegedly classifying ex-soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with “personality disorder” instead. PTSD is covered by health care benefit...   read more

Major felony crimes went up slightly this year in New York City. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg begs to differ.   At a news conference this week, Bloomberg claimed violent felonies have gone down 21 years in a row, including 2011. The mayor believe...   read more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is the largest uniformed, federal law enforcement agency in the country, has a new leader. David V. Aguilar, who has worked on border enforcement for more than thirty-three years, has been named CBP ...   read more

1. Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Improves to 82nd The United States placed 82nd in the ranking, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh. According to the Institute, “If the U.S. moderately reduced its violence...   read more

Security forces in Egypt this week raided the offices of at least six non-governmental organizations and confined their staffs at gunpoint while police searched through files and computers.   Three of the NGOs were American-based: Freedom House;...   read more

Following the stock market troubles of 2008, corporations handed out generous stock options to their executives that are now proving a great tax advantage for the businesses.   Federal tax law allows the companies to claim a tax deduction in fut...   read more

As telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick sees it, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is catering to the demands of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.   “There has been a series of recent events in telecom, broadband, Internet–cable, wir...   read more

Charles E. Samuels, Jr., appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) by Attorney General Eric Holder on December 21, 2011, started at the bottom as a correctional officer (prison guard) more than 23 years ago.   Born circa 1965 in ...   read more