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

Americans spends too much time and money prosecuting minor legal infractions, draining the U.S. court system of precious dollars and leaving defendants without adequate legal defense, according to a new study by the National Association of Crimina...   read more

In recent years a strange series of maneuverings have quietly encircled the little-known U.S. Parole Commission, which has managed to remain operative despite the fact that the government did away with parole for federal prisoners 25 years ago. Th...   read more

Two of three Tiananmen protesters jailed for vandalizing Mao Zedong’s portrait 20 years ago have been granted political asylum in the United States. On May 23, 1989, Yu Dongyue, Yu Zhijian, and fellow activist Lu Decheng threw eggshells filled wit...   read more

Bruce Robertson usually spends his time as a private detective hunting down cheating spouses and insurance criminals. But these days he’s tracking down a shooter—of two endangered California condors. The birds were found in March by biologists who...   read more

The Oenga family of Inupiat Eskimos has filed its second lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) over mismanaging a decades old lease agreement between the family and British Petroleum (BP). The Oenga family is seeking up to $200 millio...   read more

President Obama’s stimulus package includes more than $6 billion in stimulus money to clean up 18 nuclear sites from New York to California. This is double the previous annual funding for the program. However, the contractors who have been critici...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to increase enforcement of anti-trust legislation should start with our agribusiness industry, argues Paula Crossfield, the managing editor of Civil Eats. She maintains that a handful of companies control every step...   read more

He once made it explicitly clear: “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” Those were Barack Obama’s words, back when he was an Illinois state senator six years ago. Then, he said it was a matter of the Democrats winning...   read more

If the matter of Nancy Pelosi vs. the CIA was a court case, and the Central Intelligence Agency has to testify on its own behalf, it would have a serious credibility issue, stemming from its history of lying to Congress. The current House Speaker ...   read more

More Americans died in World War I than in Korea or Vietnam, but unlike those conflicts, whose participants have been honored in the nation’s capital, the veterans of the “war to end all wars” have yet to get their memorial. On the National Mall i...   read more

Readjusting to civilian life often proves difficult for many veterans returning home from war, as they battle psychological problems, alcoholism or drug addiction. For those whose demons get them into trouble with the law, there is now an alternat...   read more

Highway-happy California has benefited mightily from the federal stimulus funds dedicated for road and infrastructure projects, according to congressional data that ProPublica sifted through. Five of the top 10 projects in the country that have re...   read more

With the advancement of wireless technology all across America has come an expanded authority by federal regulators to enter homes without a warrant, so says the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Based on the original law that created it (t...   read more

If President Barack Obama is really intent on closing down Guantanamo Bay and overcoming fierce congressional opposition to housing these detainees on U.S. soil, he should repeat three simple words at every opportunity: They’re already here. Someh...   read more

A legal battle against the tobacco industry that began a decade ago is almost over now that a federal appellate court has upheld the landmark ruling from 2006 that ruled cigarette makers had violated federal racketeering laws in an effort to decei...   read more

The United States is fast reaching a crisis point as federal, state and local law enforcement falls further and further behind in processing a backlog of now 350,000 DNA samples for cases involving murder or rape, according to an investigation by ...   read more