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

Republican and Democratic budget leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing to give the president line-item veto power, something that’s been discussed, and tried, in the past. According to current law, if the president of the Unit...   read more

“All-white neighborhoods are effectively extinct. A half-century ago, one-fifth of America’s urban neighborhoods had exactly zero black residents. Today, African-American residents can be found in 199 out of every 200 neighborhoods nationwide. The...   read more

For tourists Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting, their trip to the U.S. never got past the airport in Los Angeles. That’s because security officials detained the couple after some tweets from Van Bryan alarmed the Department of Homeland Security. ...   read more

After nine employees went to Congress to complain about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of unsafe medical devices, the FDA spied on the whistleblowers for two years, according to a lawsuit file by six of them.   The scientists ...   read more

Borrowing a page from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks that bet against investments sold to investors, mortgage giant Freddie Mac is banking that Americans won’t be able to refinance their homes—even though making refinancing easier is on...   read more

From the White House to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), nearly 280,000 federal employees owe the government back taxes, which collectively total $3.42 billion.   Among those behind on paying the IRS are 36 aides to President Barack Obama, wh...   read more

Defense contractor Boeing stands to make even more money off its “bunker-buster” bomb, which the U.S. may be planning to use against Iran.   To date, Boeing has taken in about $330 million from the Department of Defense to develop 20 of the 30,0...   read more

Agricultural chemicals may be partly responsible for the massive die-off of honeybees in the U.S., according to researchers at Purdue University. Entomologists have found the presence of neonicotinoid insecticides, which are used on corn and soybe...   read more

Just a month after Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invested $300 million in social networking company Twitter, it announced that it would begin censoring content, alarming free speech advocates around the world. In a public blog post, ironically t...   read more

As Apple, Inc. enters its first full year without founder Steve Jobs at the helm, expect one thing not to change: Apple will not be creating large numbers of jobs in the U.S. In fact Apple, which until 2004 did a lot of manufacturing in the U.S., ...   read more

Law enforcement efforts are supposed to serve and protect the public, but what happens when the methods used actually harm innocent members of the public? As AllGov reported last November, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has great...   read more

Alejandrina Cabrera, a candidate for city council in the border town of San Luis, Arizona, has been told by a local judge she cannot run for the office in March’s primary election because she does not speak English well enough.   Yuma County Sup...   read more

The new agency meant to protect consumers from the unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices of banks, credit unions, and other financial companies finally has a leader. Faced with a signed pledge by 44 Republican Senators to filibuster any nominee ...   read more

Based on votes submitted by 88,000 people worldwide, Brazilian mining company Vale has been named the world’s worst corporation for 2011. Sponsored by Berne Declaration and Greenpeace, since 2000, the Public Eye Award has highlighted corporate abu...   read more

North Carolina’s teachers union is suing the legislature after lawmakers met late at night in special session to approve legislation that will prevent union members from voluntarily choosing to have union dues automatically deducted from their pay...   read more

The Great Recession may have a silver lining for motorists: budget woes have forced at least two municipalities known as “speed traps” to disband their police forces, and one has voted to dis-incorporate entirely. Meanwhile, the town of Heath, Ohi...   read more