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

Two dating websites in Dallas and Vancouver face a lawsuit for exploiting the image of a dead American soldier killed in Iraq.   Pof.com and True.com have been using a photo of Army Lieutenant Peter Burks, who died on November 14, 2007, followin...   read more

One good turn deserves another when the country’s most powerful man has a scheduling conflict with the country’s most popular sport.   This week, the National Football League announced it will open its 2012 season on Wednesday night, September 5...   read more

Lawmakers in Virginia have put aside their partisan differences about health care, contraception and other issues to officially oppose a controversial law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama that allows the federal government t...   read more

Indicative that something is amiss with the corporate income tax system, General Electric over the last 10 years paid only 2.3% tax on more than $81 billion in profits, according to the advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice.   It was revealed ...   read more

Following on his criticism last year of the Republican-led plan, President Barack Obama this week attempted to get around the mandate that terrorism suspects be tried by military tribunals.   To accomplish this end-around, Obama issued waivers t...   read more

Qorvis, one of Washington, DC’s top lobbying and public relations firms, has continued to help one of its most controversial clients improve its image with American leaders.   Since signing a $40,000-a-month contract with the government of Bahra...   read more

From cars to diapers, the Dr. Seuss character known as The Lorax, created back in 1971 to “speak for the trees,” can be seen promoting one consumer good after another, as part of the new Universal Pictures’ film debuting this week.   The use of ...   read more

Top officials in the National Security Agency (NSA) are pushing for greater access to private-sector computer networks, all in the name of preventing cyberattacks. But the White House has insisted the NSA slow down its efforts, mainly because of p...   read more

Twitter partner DataSift is now offering companies access to two years of tweets, making available a vast amount of market-research information. Through its new program Historics, the United Kingdom-based Datasift is providing businesses with the ...   read more

Despite its oil well causing the worst spill in U.S. history, oil giant BP has enjoyed increased business with the Department of Defense.   Sales of BP fuel to the Pentagon rose 33%, from $1.02 billion in 2010—when the Gulf of Mexico became foul...   read more

At the behest of nuclear power companies, government officials in Japan softened language relating to the threat of earthquake-produced tsunamis only eight days before last year’s disaster.   In early March 2011, representatives of Tokyo Electri...   read more

Taking a cue from North Dakota, a large number of state governments are considering the establishment of a state bank.   In the wake of the financial and mortgage crises, proponents are pushing for states to rely less on large national private b...   read more

American corporations continue to enjoy healthy profit margins, while the average worker is watching inflation outpace wages.   Earnings for businesses began to rebound in early 2010 and have continued to do well ever since. By the third quarter...   read more

Hungry to take advantage of an unfulfilled market, the pharmaceutical industry is hoping the latest diet pill to gain federal approval will open the way for other drugs in development that are designed to cut pounds off of millions of obese Americ...   read more

Act of Valor, which opened nationwide this past weekend as the top-selling movie in the U.S., is perhaps the closest yet that Hollywood has come to producing a pure propaganda film for the “Military-Entertainment Complex.”   For the past 25 year...   read more

According to the oil industry’s top lobbying group, President Barack Obama’s corporate tax reform plan is discriminating against petroleum producers.   Apparently with a straight face, Jack Gerard, the president and CEO of the American Petroleum...   read more