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

The new director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, has called for an end to the term “war on drugs.” Noting a shift in policy from previous administrations, Kerlikowske aims to focus more on treatment and ...   read more

The length of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is taking its toll on the U.S. military’s ability to provide sufficient numbers of combat soldiers for the continuing conflicts. USA Today reports that fewer soldiers are available to go to war than a...   read more

Whether it’s because of the potential ramifications for U.S. soldiers overseas or for his important upcoming speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, President Barack Obama is now refusing to release photos of detainees captured in disturbin...   read more

Steven Hutchison of Scottsdale, AZ, had worked for a health care corporation and as a part-time college instructor before hijackers attacked New York City and Washington, DC, in 2001. Following the September 11 attacks, Hutchison wanted to reenlis...   read more

The good news from the latest study on single moms in America is that teenagers don’t account for nearly as many of the unwed births as they used to, according to research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overall,...   read more

Law enforcement officials in Mississippi seized the largest quantity of black market cigarettes in U.S. history last month. Totaling 200 million cigarettes, and valued at $20 million, the bust represented three times the value of all cigarettes se...   read more

While President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead, once again, for military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, U.S. federal courts continue to find serious problems with the legal cases that the government has built against Guantánamo detain...   read more

A congressional investigation has determined that approximately 25% of Americans living overseas, mostly soldiers, who tried to vote in 2008 did not have their votes recorded by state officials. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee and th...   read more

A recent release of emails among members of the American Psychological Association (APA) has revealed the group’s discussion of the ethics behind the role that psychologists played in designing torture tactics used at interrogation facilities, suc...   read more

Medicare is “a monster,” says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, but not one that can’t be fixed. Keeping Medicare from going bust before the end of the next decade will require slowing the rate of growth of medical costs, and that problem requi...   read more

For months, Americans sat by and watched as the banking and finance industry, in the wake of their self-induced meltdown, got just about everything they wanted from both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. Now it’s the turn of th...   read more

A $2.2 billion initiative to help the homeless breezed through the Senate with widespread bipartisan support. Co-sponsored by Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-Missouri) and  Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), the bill shifts the focus  to provid...   read more

With tuition fees rising throughout the country, it’s worth taking a look at a report done by Mental Floss’ Scott Allen on eight colleges that offer tuition-free educations.   1.      College of the Ozarks Students attending College of the Ozar...   read more

Last month, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that it will loan Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest private carrier airline, $238 million to purchase thirty new Boeing 737-900ER planes, and an additional $841 million, up...   read more

A long time Latino civil rights attorney, John Trasviña was confirmed as the assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on May 1, 2009. He comes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development after serving as president of the M...   read more

Arguing that credit card companies are acting more like loan sharks than businesses, Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) wants to cap interest rates on consumer credit cards at 15%. But the majority of his Senate colleagues, including many Democrats, b...   read more