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

A new academic study of 58,000 federal criminal cases has found significant disparities in sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crimes. The research led to the conclusion that African-Americans’ jail time was almost 60% longer th...   read more

The protein-rich jack mackerel is a fish in high demand, which has led to overfishing by multiple countries and risks of the species disappearing.   Over a period of 20 years, the stocks of jack mackerel have dropped from about 30 million metric...   read more

The North African nation of Tunisia, where the recent wave of Arab revolutions began in December 2010, will soon have a new Ambassador from the United States. President Barack Obama on December 14, 2011, nominated career diplomat Jacob “Jake” Wall...   read more

President Barack Obama recently welcomed the new ambassador from the United Kingdom, a forty-year veteran of the British Diplomatic Service who served in Washington, DC, during most of the Clinton era.   Peter Westmacott has a personal connectio...   read more

While many experts have predicted that President Barack Obama will ultimately out-fundraise his Republican opponent in the 2012 presidential race, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney isn’t doing badly for himself.   Romney’s super PAC, Restore Our Futu...   read more

Texas has become the latest state to require companies to disclose the types of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”).   Adopted by the state legislature last year, the new rule has been heralded by environmentalists and industry a...   read more

Council for Educational Travel, USA (Cetusa), a sponsor of international exchange students to the U.S., has been banned by the State Department after students in Pennsylvania last year protested their working conditions.   The State Department’s...   read more

Unless you’re an alligator or an enormous snake, the southernmost part of the Florida Everglades is not the place to live for the rest of the animal kingdom.   Pythons and anacondas have been growing in numbers in Everglades National Park, and b...   read more

Zackery Clement pushed things a little too far with his workers compensation claim.   After sustaining a hernia injury on the job when a refrigerator he was moving in March 2009 fell on him, he was granted two years of disability benefits and me...   read more

In defending the U.S. military’s medical system in court, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that service personnel and their families are not allowed to sue for medical malpractice regardless of the circumstance.   As a general rule, mil...   read more

At first it seemed like just another example of a politician acting badly. At about 10 p.m. on January 25, Colorado State Representative Laura Bradford (R-Collbran) was pulled over for making an illegal turn at an intersection. The officer smelled...   read more

Advances in forensics, commonly used for years now involving DNA evidence, are now expanding into the area of arson. This scientific development could give certain criminals convicted of starting fires new grounds to challenge their sentences.   ...   read more

High school student and cancer survivor J.T. Gaskins of Grand Blanc, Michigan, was suspended by school officials at the Madison Academy on January 23 for having long hair.   What makes this story news is that Gaskins, who fought leukemia until...   read more

An adult film company based in California has filed suit in New York to obtain the identities of individuals who illegally downloaded one of its pornography movies.   Digital Sin wants to track down at least 176 IP addresses of people who used B...   read more

For anyone with limited education, the federal government is the place to go for a job.   According to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal civil servants with only a high school diploma earned 21% more, on average, t...   read more

This year’s just-concluded Republican primary in Florida will go down as the most expensive, and nasty, in state history.   Determined to stop Newt Gingrich’s momentum after winning South Carolina, Mitt Romney’s super PAC, Restore Our Future, sp...   read more