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

Prostitutes won a resounding victory in Ontario, Canada, where judges threw out several anti-prostitution laws.   Arguing that the state was placing unconstitutional restrictions on prostitutes’ ability to protect themselves, the five-member Cou...   read more

If George Zimmerman avoids prosecution for the February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, he will have the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to thank.   At the urging of the NR...   read more

An internal assessment by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has concluded that reductions of mortgage principal would serve to benefit both homeowners and the federal government. But the head of the FHFA has resisted this move.   Lowerin...   read more

Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, leader of the coup that overthrew Mali’s government last week, received military training in the United States. The Central African nation was due to hold presidential elections on April 29.   U.S. officials acknowled...   read more

Harvey, Illinois, is being sued by a sexual assault victim who contends police officials failed to process or preserve more than 200 rape kits. The plaintiff, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, also claims police “have a history of discrim...   read more

Canada’s government may be having second thoughts about allowing former al-Qaeda child soldier Omar Khadr back into the country.   Khadr agreed to a plea with U.S. military officials that required him to provide information on other terrorism su...   read more

Of the 17 Afghans murdered by Bales on March 11, 11 of them were relatives of farmer Muhammad Wazir, who lives in the village of Balandi in the Zangabad area of Panjwae district.   Wazir was away at the time of the attack, visiting his brother, ...   read more

Nearly 40 members of the House of Representatives earmarked $150 million to organizations affiliated with themselves and their family members from 2008 to 2010, according to a government watchdog organization.   Citizens for Responsibility and E...   read more

Even as the Obama administration goes full speed ahead on its version of the Bush administration’s supposedly defunct “total information awareness” program by building a massive complex in the Utah desert that will intercept, analyze and store com...   read more

Scientists at a leading defense contractor and government research laboratory have been working on developing a new generation of drone aircraft that utilizes nuclear power.   Based on a vaguely worded report out of Sandia National Laboratories,...   read more

When the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released revised regulations last year to allow the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho to kill sea lions thought to be eating too many salmon, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and...   read more

Election year pressure from the U.S. weapons industry succeeded last week in persuading Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to release $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt by using her authority under a new law to waive a requirement that she cert...   read more

Despite a recent study showing that mountaintop removal coal mining—in which coal companies literally remove the tops of mountains, dump the tons of debris into nearby streams and then strip mine the underlying coal—causes children born nearby to ...   read more

Just three years after Kingston, Tennessee, (pop.: 5,934) suffered through a massive spill of up to 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal waste from earthen dams and holding ponds at a local TVA facility, some residents are complaining about a dif...   read more

A career Senior Foreign Service Officer whose career has included two postings to Africa will be the next ambassador to the African nation of Uganda. President Barack Obama nominated Scott H. DeLisi to the post on January 23, 2012, subject to Sena...   read more

The former Soviet republic of Georgia is to be sent a new ambassador who previously served there as a peacekeeping monitor during the Georgian Civil War of the 1990s. Richard B. Norland, who was nominated by President Obama on February 17, 2012, w...   read more