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 Florida legislature decided last week to cut funding for the state’s public universities by $300 million next year–even as it agreed to spend money on one powerful member’s plan to establish a new university in his home county. Such cuts are n...   read more

The North African nation of Libya, whose successful revolution against long-time dictator Muammar Gadhafi is currently threatened by militia violence and regional separatism, will soon have a new US ambassador with extensive personal experience in...   read more

The Caribbean nation of Haiti, which is still suffering from the effects of the January 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people, will soon have a new ambassador with extensive experience in economic development. Pamela A. White, who p...   read more

People living on only a few dollars a day are supposed to dwell in developing countries, not wealthy ones like the United States. But a new report says millions of Americans struggle to get by on less than $2 per day.   The University of Michiga...   read more

Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Mitt Romney helped found, is playing a major role in China’s effort to spy on its citizens.   Uniview Technologies, a Chinese company owned by Bain, has provided surveillance cameras to the government f...   read more

It has been commonly assumed for a long time that the wealthy live longer than the poor. Now, some explanations are offered for why this might be true.   Education plays a critical role in the rich lasting longer. The better educated tend to liv...   read more

A former elementary school teacher has been nominated by President Obama to be the next Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education. Deborah S. Delisle, who has stated her “firm belief that a zip code should never prede...   read more

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is the research arm of the Department of Labor and the principal fact-finding organization for the Federal Government in the field of labor economics, has a new leader in the pipeline, an experienced labor eco...   read more

After cutting corners and relying on poor accounting, JPMorgan Chase shut down its legal operation against credit card debtors, some of whom may have been wrongly sued by the bank. It would appear to be another example of greed overcoming honesty....   read more

What was once a rare occurrence has become a common violation of the law: Parents lying about their residency in order to send their kids to better schools.   This unlawful act, punishable with time in jail, has increased in recent years, especi...   read more

Despite numerous arrests and killings of cartel leaders, Mexico’s “decapitation” strategy for stopping the drug trade is not working, says a top American general.   General Charles H. Jacoby Jr., commander of U.S. Northern Command, told a Senate...   read more

A supporter of President Barack Obama who serves as a trade adviser has been accused by the United Nations of buying millions of dollars in gold from a wanted African warlord.   Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born oil tycoon who serves as chairman and c...   read more

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has implemented a new policy for dealing with officer-related traffic accidents, which have been occurring at an average of one a day.   In January, The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD had caused...   read more

Supporters of President Barack Obama have hailed the news of new job opportunities and the decline of the unemployment rate. When the national unemployment rate reached 10% for one month—in October 2009—it caused widespread despair and worry. The ...   read more

Federal criminal courts broke a record last year for the number of defendants that filed through the system. The number of defendants increased 3% over the previous year, with the total recorded at 102,931. Drug offenses were the most commonly pro...   read more

Ten years after being established and almost $1 billion in costs, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has made its first conviction, much to the delight of human rights advocates.   But critics contend the ICC is too costly and delivers too l...   read more