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

With the transition from checks to debit cards for disbursing college student aid, financial institutions have found a new way to make money that at the same time has increased debt risks for young people.   Today some universities arrange for s...   read more

Arab-American entrepreneurs should enjoy the same assistance from the federal government as American Indians and Hasidic Jews, according to a civil rights group.   The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee recently asked the Department of ...   read more

Virginia-based Osiris Therapeutics Inc. has become the first U.S. company authorized to sell a stem cell-based treatment. The approval, though, did not come from the U.S. government. Rather, Canada’s government-run health system okayed the use of ...   read more

There is money to be made on the high seas, lots of it. With the rise of piracy off the eastern coast of Africa, private security companies (PSCs) have found no shortage of commercial and private ship owners willing to pay top dollar for protectio...   read more

When Grammy and Emmy award winning songwriter Christopher Cerf composed songs for Sesame Street, little did he know that the very same music would be used decades later for dark purposes by the U.S. government.   As part of its torture program d...   read more

The Obama administration was supposed to begin declassifying key rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) two years ago. But to date nothing has been made available.   The court is responsible for hearing requests by federal...   read more

Less than four years after it was rescued with nearly $50 billion in taxpayer money, Bank of America has decided to add offshore call-center jobs in the Philippines.   BofA follows other major banks—JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo—that...   read more

The head of the National Weather Service (NWS) has stepped down following revelations that his agency spent years redirecting funds without approval from Congress.   Jack Hayes ran the NWS for six years before his abrupt retirement last week. Hi...   read more

Executives at Ikea are probably looking forward to the start of June, given how bad the month of May was for the Swedish furniture giant.   The latest piece of bad news for Ikea involved accusations that the company has been cutting down old-gro...   read more

A storm of controversy has surrounded the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for accusing people in Greece of not paying their taxes, while she’s avoided taxation on her own lucrative salary.   IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in an i...   read more

When it comes to authorizing the killing of terrorists, including American citizens by U.S. forces, the buck really does stop with President Barack Obama.   John Brennan, Obama’s counter-terrorism chief, has been portrayed recently as the one-ma...   read more

Congress giveth and Congress taketh away when it comes to extending unemployment benefits for those hit hardest by the Great Recession.   Lawmakers in February approved another extension for states’ unemployment programs drained by the long-term...   read more

Two homeowners in Arizona are suing the state for trying to divert money from the nationwide foreclosure settlement for uses other than helping struggling mortgage holders.   Forty-eight states and the federal government sued five national banks...   read more

With America’s prison population getting grayer by the year, the question arises: Should the U.S. continue to incarcerate inmates in their sixties, seventies and older?   Over the past two decades, the percentage of older prisoners has increased...   read more

Using the latest in acoustic and computer technology, city police departments can now be alerted to shootings in their communities within minutes, thanks to a service provided by a company located thousands of miles away.   Based in Mountain Vie...   read more

For the second consecutive election, the Obama administration has touted efforts to arrest illegal immigrants with criminal records.   Six months before voters decide whether to grant President Barack Obama a second term, the Immigration and Cus...   read more