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

Cholera has ravaged five percent of Haiti’s population, killing thousands. And the impoverished island country has the United Nations to blame.   Since the January 12, 2010, earthquake, more than 7,000 Haitians have died from the world’s worst r...   read more

A declining prison population should mean good news for taxpayers. But it can still result in heartache for local communities in need of jobs that had borrowed to build jails in anticipation of a law and order boom.   In Texas, many counties ope...   read more

For nearly a decade during the George W. Bush administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was routinely criticized for not carrying out its mandate to protect consumers. Since the election of President Barack Obama, the commissio...   read more

Oil drilling off Alaska’s north coast could begin in a matter of months now that the Obama administration has approved a clean-up plan in the event of a spill.   The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement app...   read more

Millions of medical implants have been sold in the U.S. without ever being tested, according to Consumer Reports.   The magazine says among the untested are artificial joints, heart defibrillators and surgical mesh that’s been surgically implant...   read more

Despite cuts to next year’s military budget, weapons merchant Lockheed Martin did very well for itself in the Obama administration’s proposed spending plans. Although Lockheed took a big hit to its main franchise, the $400 billion F-35 Joint Strik...   read more

When Philadelphia officials learned last year that the city’s water supply and the region’s waterways showed elevated levels of radioactive iodine-131, their initial instinct was to blame the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, as I-131 is found ...   read more

A new law passed by the Arizona Legislature and awaiting the signature of Republican Governor Jan Brewer could criminalize much of what gets posted on the Internet, thus raising serious First Amendment concerns. Arizona House Bill 2549 would make ...   read more

A holdover from the George W. Bush administration, Nancy Nord has been a constant thorn in the sides of Democrats on the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and consumer advocates. She has been criticized for repeatedly fighting against inc...   read more

Just weeks after a landmark study found that even low dose exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals like bisphenol-A (BPA) produce significant, adverse health effects on people, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week rejected a petiti...   read more

Can a federal agency refuse to do its job for so long that the statute of limitations would prevent legal action to force the agency to act? That was the question federal judge Richard W. Roberts answered with a resounding “No” last week in the ca...   read more

The Baltic nation of Latvia, which has been independent for two decades after being part of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1990, has a new U.S. ambassador in residence who has previously served in neighboring Estonia. President Barack Obama announc...   read more

The Balkan nation of Kosovo, which owes its existence to U.S.-led intervention in 1999 against the nation of Serbia, of which it was a part, is welcoming a new ambassador from Washington. On January 23, 2012, President Obama announced his intent t...   read more

The United States has quietly stepped up its secret war in Yemen, launching dozens of airstrikes, including drones, according to a report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. U.S. drone attacks in Yemen are now as common as those in Pakistan...   read more

As of April 1, the mangalitsa will be a wanted pig in Michigan. And that has some farmers very upset.   A new regulation developed by the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will prohibit the fur-covered pigs. State officials claim the...   read more

After years of significant budget cuts and rising demand for classes, one community college in California plans to become the first of its kind to offer a two-tier pricing system for popular courses.   Santa Monica College intends this summer to...   read more