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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to let Pfizer sell a higher dosage of a best-selling Alzheimer’s drug as a means of extending its patent, even though the new prescription dose caused potentially harmful side effects.   Developed by...   read more

Advertising is a billion-dollar investment for the U.S. government, which ranks in the top 10 of biggest spenders on marketing campaigns.   In 2010, federal agencies spent $945 million on ad contracts. More than half of this total was allocated ...   read more

For hundreds of American communities, prohibition never ended. Nearly 80 years after the law banning alcohol was repealed in 1933, many counties and towns in the South continue their “dry” ways. Citizens residing in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkans...   read more

The Pacific island nation of Micronesia will soon have its eighth U.S. ambassador, a career Foreign Service Officer who will be serving her first ambassadorship. Dorothea-Maria (Doria) Rosen was nominated by President Obama on March 9, 2012, subje...   read more

The new U.S. ambassador to Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, has specialized in relations with Africa and the Caribbean. Makila Z. James was nominated by President Obama on February 17, 2012, subject to Senate confirmation, to replace Am...   read more

Republicans in the U.S. House are pushing legislation that would freeze new regulations and hamper the changing of existing ones, all in the name of helping small businesses grow.   But critics contend that the Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act rep...   read more

The nation’s largest banks, with combined holdings equal to half of the U.S. economy, represent a “clear and present danger” and must be broken up.   This alarmist conclusion is not the work of a consumer advocate or a liberal critic of Wall Str...   read more

Experts with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, that their water—contaminated with chemicals from hydraulic fracturing—is safe to drink.   Locals and some scientists aren’t buying it.   “Any sugge...   read more

Tennessee, the state that produced the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, is coming close to adopting a new law that allows teachers to question the “scientific strengths” of evolution.   The sponsor of the bill, Sen. Bo Watson (R-Hixson), says that t...   read more

On an afternoon in May 1925, two entrepreneurs sat scheming in a drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee. George Rappelyea and F. E. Robinson pored over a notice in the Chattanooga Times, placed by a little-known New York organization called the American C...   read more

As more and more states legalize medical marijuana, law enforcement needs a new DUI standard, not to mention a Breathalyzer for pot.   Currently, there is no legally established limit for how high a driver can be before they’re a danger on the r...   read more

Having helped cripple the housing market, Wall Street firms are now seeking to profit from the millions of foreclosed homes by buying up properties and renting them out.   Fannie Mae is helping arrange the deal, by packaging large numbers of ban...   read more

If one Washington lobby has its way, sewage sludge will be rebranded as compost, making it easier for crops to be exposed to toxic materials.   Pushing the rebranding effort is the U.S. Composting Council, an organization founded by the makers o...   read more

Advocates of community radio won an important victory this week when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it would dismiss a backlog of more than 6,000 pending applications for what are known as translators and open the applicatio...   read more

With its ice sheet slowly receding because of global warming, Greenland has become popular with mining companies seeking new stores of valuable minerals.   Beneath the thinning glaciers are lodes of uranium, zinc, iron ore, copper and gold, as w...   read more

Following the time-honored tradition of lawmakers (“do unto others as you would not do unto yourself”), the Florida legislature adopted the first-in-the-nation law that allows state workers to be tested for drug use.   Legislators are exempt.  ...   read more