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 toxic partisanship fouling Washington, DC, has cost another Obama administration appointee his job.   William Boarman was nominated in April 2010 to head the Government Printing Office (GPO). The Senate Rules and Administration Committee una...   read more

American youth are landing in jail far more often than most realize, according to a new study that found about one-third will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23. The research shows that between 25% and 41% of 23-year-olds have been ar...   read more

Incompetence and greed have made the simple necessity of turning on the tap an expensive, and increasingly prohibitive, part of ordinary life.   In Alabama, home of the nation’s largest public bankruptcy (Jefferson County), local residents are s...   read more

Since the BP oil spill last year devastated the Gulf region, the federal government has encouraged the purchase of local seafood to help fishermen get back on their feet. But a new study raises the question of whether this fish is safe to consume,...   read more

While the U.S. pulls out the last of its troops from Iraq, a new difficulty back home begins: Finding jobs for thousands of returning veterans.   With the Iraq occupation over and Afghanistan expected to wind down as well in the near future, the...   read more

U.S. corporations complaining that their overseas earnings are trapped there because taxes are too high to bring home have already moved huge sums back onto American soil, a Senate investigation found.   The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Inve...   read more

The death of Kim Jong-il probably marks the end of an era, the end of one family controlling the fates of 24 million people. Despite the fact that I have written about living dictators for many years, I managed to visit North Korea in 2007. It was...   read more

Having written about dictators for many years, I thought I would try to visit North Korea, the worst of the worst. Because I had written harshly about Kim Jong-il, and included a chapter about him in my book Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Di...   read more

Despite opposition from the Department of Defense and the nation’s top military commanders, the head of the National Guard will soon have a seat at the Joints Chiefs of Staff (JCS).   Legislation approved by Republicans and Democrats is now with...   read more

Ohio’s 16th congressional district is being scrutinized for its new boundaries following the state legislature’s September approval of a redistricting plan. At the behest of a top aide for U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, who hails from Ohio’s 8th...   read more

Big-money interests will not have to reveal their identity when spending on political advertisements during next year’s election, thanks to Republicans on the Federal Election Commission (FEC).   Democrats on the FEC pushed for new rules requiri...   read more

Christians in Xintan village in China’s Zhejiang province had their public Christmas celebration broken up by local police before it even began this week. After setting up a stage, banners and sound system in the village square, organizers were to...   read more

A panel of experts commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that most of the research involving chimpanzees is not necessary. According to the most recent count, there are 937 chimpanzees being used for research in the...   read more

Teenagers in the United States aren’t as big on booze as they once were. But marijuana is growing in popularity with the younger crowd.   This year marks the fourth straight year that marijuana use has gone up among teens, according to an annual...   read more

President Barack Obama on October 17, 2011, announced his intent to nominate Wendy Spencer to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees funding for Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, Learn and Se...   read more

Dr. Gregory L. Parham is the Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).  Parham, who became APHIS Administrator in April 2011, carries out the agency’s broad mission of conducting regula...   read more