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

President Barack Obama has turned to a former health care executive to serve as the next Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the federal body responsible for administering the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as...   read more

Many of the world’s top banks have been labeled “climate killers” by a consortium of environmental organizations that studied the financial industry’s investments in coal.   “We chose to look into coal financing as coal-fired power plants are th...   read more

Being in law enforcement and speaking out against the nation’s drug laws can be professionally hazardous. But a growing number of police and others are doing just that, and suffering the consequences.   Those who have lost their jobs for persona...   read more

Former U.S. Navy Captain Ray E. Davis faces an extradition order from Chile for participating in the murders of two Americans shortly after a military coup toppled the regime of President Salvador Allende in 1973.    A Chilean judge wants Davis ...   read more

The poorest city in America got some mysterious holiday cheer this week. An unidentified man known only as the Secret Santa traveled around Reading, Pennsylvania, handing out $100 bills to people in need. From the bus terminal to the local Salvat...   read more

The new U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh is a career diplomat who grew up milking cows on the family farm, and whose career has taken him primarily to rural countries in South Asia and Southern Africa. Dan W. Mozena previously served at the embassy i...   read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has sued five national banks for allegedly pursuing illegal foreclosures on properties in her state.   Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and GMAC are accused of violating Massachuset...   read more

Governments of all stripes, including authoritarian regimes, have plenty of opportunities to shop for the last technology to spy on their citizens. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the surveillance industry has exploded in size, so...   read more

Conservative lawmakers in Hungary have outlawed homelessness. The crackdown comes as the number of people living on the streets of the country’s capital, Budapest, has grown to about 10,000. Charitable organizations have blasted the new law, calli...   read more

On June 24, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Adrienne S. O’Neal to be the United States ambassador to Cape Verde, a Portuguese-speaking island nation 300 miles off the west coast of Africa. There is a significant Cape Verdean-American popula...   read more

The latest ambassador from the African nation of Gabon is a longtime public servant who spent his twenties in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; and Phoenix, Arizona; both as a college student and an early career professional. Michael Moussa-A...   read more

Congress has been doing less with more.   Since the end of the 1970s, the U.S. House and Senate have drastically cut back on the number of hearings they have held, according to the Brookings Institution. The House these days is holding about two...   read more

JPMorgan Chase ordered a 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter out of their northwest Atlanta home after trouble arose over mortgage payments. But Fulton County sheriff’s deputies and the moving company hired to evict the women refused t...   read more

It will tell you where to get breast implants and where to score drugs, but the Siri virtual assistant software on Apple’s new iPhone 4S won’t tell you where to get an abortion.   Pro-choice advocates are urging Apple to correct Siri, which curr...   read more

The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself.   The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail was named, was arrested on charges of tr...   read more

To hear some in the media speak about it, you’d think that China was a nation of rich and middle-class people with enough money to load up on new consumer goods. In fact, most of China isn’t like that at all.   On Tuesday, the Chinese government...   read more