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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA), which provides services to farm operations such as loans, commodity price supports, conservation payments, and disaster assistance, is led by a third generation Montana farmer. Bruce Ne...   read more

While she was on a ten-day vacation in China, the staff of a St. Louis-based judge handled hundreds of cases for her, including denying bail and issuing arrest warrants.   Associate Circuit Judge Barbara T. Peebles is now in trouble with her jud...   read more

Tired of being beaten up in the press and the focus of public protests, some of America’s richest individuals are banding together to shape the national discourse on the top 1%, or, as comedian John Hodgman refers to them, “moneyed Americans.”   ...   read more

Bank of America, owner of Countrywide Financial Corporation, has agreed to pay $335 million to settle discrimination complaints filed against its subsidiary.   Crafted by the U.S. Department of Justice, the settlement resolves allegations that C...   read more

Due to the bad economic times that have plagued the country for the past several years, the U.S. is experiencing its slowest rate of population growth since World War II.   The population went up by about 2.8 million to 311.6 million from April ...   read more

U.S. auto maker executives and their political allies have clamored for industry workers to accept wage cuts so American cars can become more competitive with foreign models.   But numbers out of Germany demonstrate that higher wages for auto wo...   read more

Naoto Matsumura has gained national media attention in Japan for being the only person still living within the contaminated area near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, which covers 12 miles in any direction. Residing about seven and a ha...   read more

U.S. and Chinese airlines are determined to fight off Europe’s attempts to force their joining in the fight against global warming.   On January 1, the European Union plans to begin charging airline companies for their greenhouse gas emissions. ...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration has approved clinical trials for a new HIV vaccine manufactured in Canada.   With the financial backing of the South Korean pharmaceutical venture company Sumagen, scientists at the University of Western Ontario,...   read more

With the end of the world slated for December 21, 2012, Mayans in southeastern Mexico are hoping to draw scores of tourists next year. More than 50 million people are expected in 2012 to visit the regions of Chiapas, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco...   read more

Boston College may have to violate its promise of confidentiality given to members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who participated in an oral history project.   The school’s Belfast Project recorded about 25 interviews with IRA paramilitarie...   read more

Bart S. Fisher, a veteran international trade lawyer, is not a popular guy these days in Washington after agreeing to work for Sudan’s government and lobby the Obama administration.   Human rights groups and Republican lawmaker Frank Wolf of Vir...   read more

America’s streets are now home to more than 1.5 million youths, with more than 40% of them under the age of seven.   Out of the 1.6 million children in the U.S. who were homeless at some time last year, 672,000 were babies, toddlers and other ki...   read more

The off-shoring of call-center jobs has become not only a frustrating reality for Americans, but also a potential risk for individuals’ personal information.   One study produced for PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 83% of outsourcing companies...   read more

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, already the costliest weapons program in U.S. history, is going to eat up even more taxpayer dollars now that more than a dozen flaws have been found in the aircraft.   A secretive review panel convened by the Depa...   read more

President Barack Obama has finally brought the Civil Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board, an independent advisory group created at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, back to life with the nomination of three new members.   Dormant sin...   read more