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

Washington State’s open-primary law has withstood a key legal challenge in federal court, giving hope to reformers opposed to the two-party system that has dominated elections.   Approved by voters in 2004, it immediately came under legal attack...   read more

In an era when budget cuts have crippled police protection in some cities, the tiny village of Woodmere, Ohio, which employs nine officers to serve and protect only 884 residents (one of the highest ratios in the country) is on the verge of elimin...   read more

The state of Vermont's effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority.   In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Statio...   read more

Economic recovery is still a long way away for the vast majority of U.S. cities, according to a new report produced for city mayors and urban proponents.   Of the 363 metropolitan areas that lost jobs during the Great Recession, only 26 so far h...   read more

Like other presidents before him, President Barack Obama has made sure to reward those individuals who help collect money for his presidential campaign.   An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity found that hundreds of "bundlers" (peo...   read more

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on December 8, 2011, named veteran diplomat Reuben Barrie Walkley, who has served in seven African countries and been the principal U.S. representative to three of them, as Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region...   read more

Appointed acting administrator on May 15, 2011, Suzanne Heinen has served more than 25 years with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the lead agency in international activities to develop foreign markets for U.S. agriculture. FAS is primarily...   read more

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took a break from his campaign to come out in opposition to the bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve that allows the indefinite detention of any terrorism suspect, including Am...   read more

Determined to turn over nearly 30 prisons to private operators, the Florida legislature is considering two bills to allow the government to privatize not only penitentiaries but other public operations as well…and not inform the public until after...   read more

Long before he became one of modern Africa's most notorious dictators, Charles Taylor of Liberia was on the payroll of the U.S. government providing intelligence on American enemies.   Taylor's relationship with the Defense Intelligence Agency  ...   read more

Touted since the 1990s as the next generation of advanced naval vessel, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was designed to function as a minesweeper, among other duties. But after extensive testing it was found the LCS would have a difficult time loca...   read more

Over the objections of musicians, teachers and others, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that some creative works that have entered the public domain can return to copyright status.   In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that Congress can authorize ...   read more

What good is a Democratic majority if it does a worse job of confirming your nominees than your Republican predecessor?   This question has probably crossed the mind of President Barack Obama as he has watched nominee after nominee of his not ge...   read more

The U.S. border patrol is planning to get tough with illegal immigrants caught entering the country, even though the number of those apprehended in recent years has dropped significantly.   Using a system already in effect in Arizona, the Custom...   read more

When police pressure innocent people into confessing to crimes they did not commit, it means those who are guilty avoid punishment, sometimes for years or even decades.   The nonprofit Innocence Project found that of 80 convicted murderers who w...   read more

Lawyers representing Guantánamo detainees are continuing to object to the base commander's new policy requiring all mail to prisoners, including confidential legal correspondence, be read by military contractors.   Rear Admiral David B. Woods, w...   read more