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

Should one of America’s favorite foods be treated the same as cigarettes? Officials with the Cancer Project think so, which is why the organization is suing to force manufacturers of hot dogs to add warning labels to packages. According to the pla...   read more

An attempt by the Bush administration to thwart the protection of national forest lands from development was overturned on Wednesday by a federal appeals court in California. The legal battle pitted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001, ado...   read more

With California’s prison system at nearly 200% capacity, a panel of federal judges has ordered the state to release tens of thousands of inmates to alleviate overcrowding that was deemed cruel and unusual punishment. Nearly 43,000 prisoners may be...   read more

Levying a tax on oil speculation would produce two important benefits for the country, argues Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and supporters of his plan. By treating oil speculation like gambling, and implementing a 0.02% sin tax on the trading o...   read more

Democracy is having a difficult time taking root in Iraq. When elections are held, such as those in February, turnout has been poor, and citizens in some provinces have not been allowed to vote. But those problems pale in comparison to the governm...   read more

With previous government investigations revealing the awarding of small business contracts to large corporations, the American Small Business League (ASBL) figured it would be a good idea to check up on who is receiving contracts from federal agen...   read more

A different kind of work-related stress claim has been filed in the United Kingdom, where a government press secretary says his medical problem stems from having to lie about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. John Salisbury-Baker, a press officer ...   read more

The effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are starting to wear off, at least as far as tourists and business travelers coming to the United States. Following the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, the number of visitors nationwide dropped...   read more

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, offers a different perspective on the U.S. military as part of his argument for combating the constant haranguing by Republicans over how bad government is. To denigrate the government is also to denigrate the ...   read more

Despite creating a program specifically designed to protect them from heat exposure, farm workers are continuing to die in agricultural fields in California, prompting the ACLU and others to file a lawsuit against the state. In 2005, state officia...   read more

So much for Billy the bad guy. Last year during the presidential campaign Barack Obama singled out former Democratic congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana for helping the pharmaceutical industry keep its drug pricing regime with Medicare as part o...   read more

Many of the nation’s largest government contractors have received the biggest portion of stimulus funds to date, according to an analysis by Government Executive. The publication found 17 corporations were awarded $1.62 billion in contracts under ...   read more

Federal judges in Washington, DC, have ruled over the last year that 28 detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being unlawfully held, and ordered their release. But, according to an investigation by ProPublica, 19 of these men are still at the detention...   read more

Frosted Mini-Wheats are not quite so nutritious after all, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which recently ruled that Kellogg Company, the world’s largest producer of cereal, had lied in its advertisements claiming the breakfast fo...   read more

Self-thinking military robots, not unlike the killing machines featured in the Terminator movies, are by no means the stuff of science fiction, warns Professor Noel Sharkey, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics at the University ...   read more

Thanks to the lean economic times, the U.S. government is hungry for cash, as tax receipts across the board have dropped the most in one year since the Great Depression. Overall, tax revenues are expected to be down 18% from 2008’s total, a declin...   read more