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

Led by Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court has been reversing convictions for murder, drug dealing, wife beating and drunken driving on grounds that defendants have been denied their 6th Amendment rights.   The 6th Amendment guarantee...   read more

In the wake of the “Memogate” scandal, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, was forced to resign on November 22, 2011. He was accused of writing a secret memo asking the U.S. military for assistance in changing Pakistan’s po...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has suggested the cash-strapped agency consider offering email, secure document storage, and other online services as a way to bring in new revenues.   According to the IG, the Postal Service is one of...   read more

If life on Earth has gotten to be a bit too much, the neighborhood near Saturn might be the place to try next.   A group of astrobiologists has calculated which planets and satellites are the next best options for supporting life outside of eart...   read more

Things truly were black on the Friday after Thanksgiving, as consumers shoved, punched and sprayed their way in Wal-Marts across America to get the best bargains.   A Wal-Mart in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles received the most Bla...   read more

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, abruptly quit his post this week amid allegations that he asked Washington for help in reigning in his country’s powerful military.   An American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoo...   read more

Giving new meaning to the phrase “streaming video,” Captive Media has produced the first “hands-free urinal videogame,” which is now being unveiled in bars and clubs in the United Kingdom. With foot-long LCD screens mounted above specially-crafted...   read more

On October 17, 2011, President Barack Obama chose a political appointee who strongly supported his 2008 rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to serve as the ambassador to the South American nation o...   read more

In this time of global economic crisis, the impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso has sent a new ambassador to the United States who has no formal diplomatic experience, but has specialized in development economics since the mid-1980s. ...   read more

Shortly after 10 a.m. this morning at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch an Atlas V rocket on a nine-month journey to Mars. On board will be the $2.5-billion Mars Scien...   read more

Current and former members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) this week commemorated the 10th anniversary of Johnny Micheal Spann’s death in Afghanistan. Spann was the first American casualty of the United States’ war-on-terror campaign that...   read more

Being a cop may seem like dangerous work, but it’s not nearly as fatal as those who catch fish. The profession with the highest rate of fatalities last year was fishermen, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After that it was loggers; air...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to an experienced Latin America hand, Adam E. Namm, to serve as the new ambassador to Ecuador, replacing former ambassador Heather Hodges, who in April 2011 was expelled by the Ecuadorian government after the rele...   read more

The Marshall Islands , a chain of 24 atolls and coral islands in the South Pacific containing only 66 square miles of land, sent a new ambassador to the United States who was educated in the U.S. and has worked at the embassy since 2007. On Septem...   read more

The criticism over UC Davis’ police dousing non-violent protesters with pepper spray has extended to the man who invented the crowd-control device.   Kamran Loghman helped develop pepper spray into a weapons-grade material while working with the...   read more

A federal court in California has admonished the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for misleading it about the existence of records pertaining to spying on Muslims in the U.S.   The judicial criticism rose out of the case Islamic Shura Counc...   read more