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

Religious groups have increasingly spent money over the past four decades on lobbying in Washington, DC, according to The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.   In 1970, fewer than 40 secular groups lobbied Congress and the Executive Branch. Now...   read more

To hear some commentators, you would think that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, was the most dangerous man in the world. In reality, he has almost no power whatsoever. He does not control Iran’s nuclear program. He does not control Ira...   read more

Donald Berwick, the Obama administration’s top official in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, is resigning his post.   He didn’t have much choice.   Nominated by President Barack Obama in April 2010, Berwick never received Senate confirmation as...   read more

Apparently the spirit of old the Wild West still exists in the present-day southwestern United States.   The U.S. Department of Justice keeps track of arrest-related deaths (ARDs). Of the five states with the highest per-capita rate of ARDs, fou...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck continues to pay a steep price for its former money-making drug Vioxx, a painkiller that once earned the company more than $2 billion a year.   The latest settlement for Merck originated with the U.S. Department...   read more

Eugenia Jennings of Illinois has become the first person to receive a commutation of sentence from President Barack Obama. Jennings was convicted in 2001 of selling 13.9 grams of crack cocaine to a police informant and was sentenced to 22 years in...   read more

In the midst of an ongoing economic crisis many economists blame on reckless behavior by banks and other Wall Street financial players, President Barack Obama on July 2, 2011, named an experienced state-level bank regulator to serve as the new C...   read more

The southwest African nation of Angola has sent its fourth ambassador to the United States since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1993. Alberto do Carmo Bento Ribeiro, an engineer and experienced diplomat recently called the U...   read more

Protesters in Egypt are once again being subjected to tear gas made in the U.S.A.   Demonstrators rallying against the military dictatorship told the British media that spent tear-gas cartridges used by police bear the name and address of Combin...   read more

It’s not difficult for mentally ill individuals to get past federal gun-control barriers designed to stop these very same people from buying handguns.   The 13-year-old, FBI-run National Instant Criminal Background Check System is supposed to ...   read more

In addition to handling the Obama administration’s diplomatic responsibilities, the State Department is also working on debunking conspiracy theories. On its suspended website (America.gov), the agency provides a section called: “Conspiracy Theori...   read more

Spurred on by a powerful politician, lawmakers in Uttar Pradesh, India, want to divide the world’s most populous state into four smaller states.   With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh is larger than all but five countries in the world. By comp...   read more

Withdrawing from Iraq has meant new missions for U.S. combat units and military hardware.   American commanders are negotiating with Kuwait to allow about 3,500 troops to redeploy to the Gulf emirate. The country already hosts 20,000 U.S. servic...   read more

American diplomats are lobbying for changes to the international treaty banning cluster bombs so the U.S. and other major military powers can join the protocol without actually giving up the deadly weapons. Cluster munitions are designed to burst ...   read more

Members of Congress looking to eliminate waste and redundancy from the federal government received some powerful news last week from the Department of Energy’s inspector general.   IG Gregory Friedman issued a report that makes a strong case for...   read more

Pakistan’s telecommunications industry is roiling over orders from the government to ban nearly 1,700 “obscene” words from text messages, 586 in Urdu and 1,109 in English.   The state-run Pakistan Telecommunications Authority ordered mobile phon...   read more