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

President Obama has nominated a career diplomat with extensive prior experience in the Aegean Sea region to be the next U.S. ambassador to the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. John M. Koenig has served previously in Cyprus, and while ...   read more

Six years after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy James Mee arrested actor Mel Gibson on a drunk driving charge, endured an anti-Semitic rant by the star, clashed with his superiors over removal of the rant from the arrest report, d...   read more

President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law survived the U.S. Supreme Court, but that doesn’t mean millions of Americans won’t lose their chance at medical insurance.   At the same time that the high court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (...   read more

Lawmakers in the U.S. House have decided to single out the General Services Administration (GSA), introducing legislation that would ban that agency’s employees under investigation from receiving bonuses.   The proposal follows several account...   read more

The U.S. Army has finally surrendered to overwhelming criticism of its current camouflage uniforms, which cost the service $5 billion but failed to sufficiently hide soldiers in combat.   The Army began using a pixilated design in 2004, claimi...   read more

Scott Gration, a close adviser and friend to President Barack Obama, has resigned as U.S. ambassador to Kenya, citing leadership differences with Washington.   In an email to The Washington Post, Gration wrote: “Differences with Washington reg...   read more

On May 24, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated a career diplomat who has served mainly in Africa to be the next ambassador to the West African nation of Guinea. Alexander Mark Laskaris would succeed Ambassador Patricia Moller, who has been ch...   read more

With the complicity of the U.S. Army, a defense contractor has forced its employees to attend anti-union meetings on a military base in Washington State.   About 120 civilian workers at Fort Lewis will vote today whether to join Local 286 of t...   read more

The U.S. Coast Guard has come to the rescue of oil companies planning to drill off the coast of Alaska by declaring environmentalists must stay away from company ships.   As 19 Arctic oil-drilling ships head through Puget Sound, groups like Gr...   read more

The federal government is preparing for the first time to charge makers of generic drugs a fee for federal approval, which manufacturers of name-brand medicines have already been paying.   The change was incorporated into legislation that gain...   read more

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) top official has come under considerable scrutiny for recent remarks defending the illegality of marijuana.   During her testimony before Congress, DEA Director Michele Leonhart argued that keeping m...   read more

With its water supplies dwindling, the legendary Wild West town of Tombstone, Arizona (population 1,562), is suing the federal government over refusing to allow local residents to use heavy equipment to repair a pipeline that runs through protec...   read more

The city of Stockton failed to reach a deal with its creditors Tuesday, setting the stage for the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy in history.   The Stockton City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to halt bond payments, whack its employee healt...   read more

At the same time it has championed free-market capitalism, JPMorgan Chase has enjoyed the largesse of U.S. government subsidies—to the tune of $14 billion annually, the equivalent of 77% of its net profits over the past four quarters.   Accord...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider an appeal from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has been stymied in its attempts to challenge a hospital merger in Georgia.   Phoebe Putney Health System announced in 2010 that it would me...   read more

Law enforcement agencies in post-September 11, 2001, America have stockpiled billions of dollars in military equipment, some of which seems unnecessary for local police forces.   Police departments have managed to collect vast quantities of mi...   read more