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

Later this year when it releases the 2008 American Community Survey, the Department of Commerce will do something it never has done before: Provide data on the number of same-sex marriages in the United States. This decision represents a reversal ...   read more

Heath, Ohio, has a population of about 9,000 residents, but managed to wrack up more than 10,000 traffic violations in a single month. This disparity helps to explain the widespread anger felt across the small town after city officials approved th...   read more

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Fox News to learn which banks were loaned money by the Federal Reserve during last year’s financial crisis was rejected last week by a federal judge in New York. But the effort to force the Fed to tur...   read more

A moderate Democrat and first-term governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland has served as the states’ co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission since January.   Born on August 4, 1941, in Lucasville, Ohio, Strickland was one of nine children. His ...   read more

A recent Gallup poll revealed that less than 30% of Americans believe members of Congress can relate to the current problems with health care, and it’s no wonder. When taking into account the wealth of options lawmakers have when it comes to medic...   read more

A growing trend in the sale of military goods versus civilian manufacturing has left some observers wondering if the United States is headed towards a military-based economy. Since the beginning of this decade, military durable goods have steadily...   read more

It’s getting to the point where being a Good Samaritan can be an occupational hazard. First, Troy Schafer of Round Rock, Texas, was fired for pursuing a purse snatcher fleeing his grocery store, and now, just days later, Jim Nicholson of Seattle, ...   read more

Former President Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea to negotiate the release of American reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were imprisoned by the North Korean dictatorship, which accused them of illegally crossing the border. While polit...   read more

Among the European countries receiving a new U.S. ambassador who raised substantial amounts of money for President Barack Obama, France got an entertainment industry executive, while Belgium and Denmark each got well-known Washington, DC, attorney...   read more

A judge in India last Friday ordered the arrest of Warren Anderson, former head of Union Carbide Corp., whose chemical plant in Bhopal released deadly gas killing at least 10,000 people in 1984. Another 50,000 were permanently disabled. Anderson w...   read more

S. Elizabeth (Liz) Birnbaum was sworn in as the Director of the Mineral's Management Service (MMS) on July 15, 2009. The Minerals Management Service is located within the US Department of the Interior, and manages the natural gas, oil and other mi...   read more

Suicide has become the biggest killer in the U.S. military, surpassing combat-related deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far in 2009 there have been 129 reported suicides by active duty soldiers and reservists, which is more than the number killed...   read more

As the Obama administration begins formulating the first cyber-command operation in the federal government, officials will have to weigh the value of conducting attacks on foreign computer systems against collateral damage on unintended targets. R...   read more

Having built the world’s largest model airplane and won an award for creating a plastic garden, James May of the United Kingdom has now turned his sights on constructing a full-size house out of Lego bricks. The co-star of the popular British auto...   read more

Yet another in a growing list of ambassadorial appointees who raised large sums of cash for President Barack Obama, Howard W. Gutman has a resume that is not without controversy. A high-octane lawyer and player in Democratic Party politics, Gutman...   read more

James B. Smith reportedly donated $3,300 to President Barack Obama’s election, but that’s not what got him the ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia. What put the former Air Force general in Obama’s good graces was his decision in 2008 to endorse Obama a...   read more