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 biotech industry breathed a sigh of relief last week when a federal court again upheld companies’ ability to patent human genes.   Civil libertarians have challenged the industry, starting with Myriad Genetics, arguing that to own a patent...   read more

Although it might seem obvious, when searching for records related to Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Central Intelligence Agency must actually search for the name “Pablo Escobar,” and must search everywhere they might reasonably be fo...   read more

A new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) paints a picture of the more than three million violent crimes that go unreported in the United States every year. Based on survey responses for the years 2006 to 2010, the BJS report esti...   read more

In the wake of recent mass killings in Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas and Louisiana, 67 survivors and family members of victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting last week sent a letter to President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidat...   read more

It has been a bad month for the police department of Coopertown, Tennessee (pop.: 4,278), about 30 miles northwest of Nashville. At the beginning of August, police dash cam video (at 6:00) from May 16 of white volunteer officer Robert McCormick ...   read more

Income potential being an important factor in evaluating career options, readers should note that despite its glamorous media image, bank robbery is not a particularly remunerative profession, especially in the long-term. The conclusion that cri...   read more

After years of working to reduce its dependence on Persian Gulf oil supplies, the U.S. has increased its petroleum imports from Saudi Arabia.   Over the past 12 months, American imports from the Saudi kingdom have increased by more than 20%. E...   read more

The wind energy industry is having a banner year. So why are executives of wind-generated energy fretting so much? Because, they say, the industry’s success may get cut short by politicians in Washington.   This year, energy produced from wind...   read more

The movie Erin Brockovich  made the chemical carcinogen chromium-6 infamous in 2000. A state law was passed in California the following year requiring formulation of a standard limiting its presence in drinking water by 2004.   Eight years lat...   read more

Despite the winding down of the Afghanistan war and stronger mental health initiatives, the U.S. Army experienced its worst month in July with suicides.   A total of 38 soldiers killed themselves last month, making it the highest monthly total...   read more

The largest corporations in the U.S., consisting of oil, retail, banking and technology giants, paid an average of only 9% of their earnings in income taxes to the Internal Revenue Service last year.   According to the tax code, companies are ...   read more

Army General William “Kip” Ward may lose a star and a million dollars in retirement pay for overspending on travel and accommodations while serving in Africa.   Ward, a four-star general (the Army’s highest rank) and the first head of the new ...   read more

The biggest pesticide and biotechnology companies in the world, led by Monsanto, have already spent $25 million to defeat California’s groundbreaking Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling initiative on November’s ballot. Most of the money...   read more

The Department of Defense has a reputation for wasting a lot of money, but in at least one case the Pentagon has found a way to save money.   Because of this year’s drought, the meat industry has been forced to drop its prices. The military al...   read more

If lawmakers on Capitol Hill wanted to encapsulate the current session of Congress in a t-shirt slogan, they could go with: Support your party and don’t compromise.   The highly partisan environment in Washington has resulted in the most “do-n...   read more

Retiring from years of service in the federal government can really put the gold back into the golden years.   Washington is currently paying more than 21,000 retired federal workers pensions of $100,000 or more per year, according to USA Toda...   read more