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

For two years in a row, the United States has been subjected to an abnormal amount of extreme weather events, raising the question of global warming’s impact on the earth. But government scientists have struggled to gain approval from Congress for...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a legal opinion reversing its longstanding opposition to many forms of Internet gambling. The change could mean new revenue opportunities for cash-strapped state governments.   Officials in New York and ...   read more

In awarding a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton, the Department of Veterans Affairs rejected alternative bids that were millions of dollars lower, according to the VA’s inspector general.   Booz Allen’s submission for a 2010 information security c...   read more

The use of unmanned aircraft, made popular by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has now become a non-violent weapon employed by environmentalists.   In the Southern Pacific Ocean, the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd has utilized a ...   read more

When some Americans complain that foreign aid is wasting taxpayer money abroad that could be put to better use at home, they may not realize that today’s version of foreign aid isn’t what it used to be. Call it the Pentagon-zation of U.S. foreign ...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to eliminate a 1998 restriction on the sale of guns to foreigners, claiming federal law does not allow the government to have different gun-control rules for noncitizens.   In a letter to firearms dealers, th...   read more

Filing and completing bankruptcy proceedings is supposed to free consumers from paying any outstanding debt to credit card companies. But that hasn’t stopped Capital One, one of the leading credit card lenders, from going after bankrupt Americans....   read more

Many of those making the most money among U.S. government civil servants have an MD after their names, according to WikiOrgCharts.   Using data obtained from federal agencies, the company compiled a list of the top 1,000 earners in Washington, D...   read more

The Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent agency established by Congress in the wake of campaign finance abuses by the re-election campaign of President Richard Nixon, elected a new Chair to a one-year term on December 15, 2011. The FE...   read more

Iraqis tortured by American defense contractors at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison are still seeking justice in U.S. courts, which will hear their claims in early 2012.   Human rights attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights are assist...   read more

Having already cleared one checkpoint and flown across the country with her sweet treat, Rebecca Hains of Peabody, Massachusetts, lost her cupcake to a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official in Las Vegas who insisted the frosting co...   read more

On December 12, the State Department announced that the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs would be renamed the Office of Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs. The new offi...   read more

On November 28, 2011, Mary E. Bohman took over as Administrator of the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), an agency that carries out economic research that helps public and private decision-makers stay informed of economic and policy issues inv...   read more

For some in Washington, going home for the holidays will mean not returning to the nation’s capital in January.   Alan Bersin is one such person. The head of Customs and Border Protection will leave his post at the end of this month because Sena...   read more

Once commonly performed by hospitals, autopsies are rarely conducted these days, depriving doctors and the medical profession of vital information. Fifty years ago, about half of patients who died in hospitals received autopsies. Now that number h...   read more

The Wal-Mart in Dunwoody, Georgia, is being sued by the mother of a shoplifter who was killed by employees two years ago. On December 19, 2009, 38-year-old Marty Jerome Bridges put about $300 worth of sporting goods inside his clothing and was hea...   read more