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

If the United States wants to extricate itself from Afghanistan, it needs to figure out a way for Afghans to pay for their own government.   Right now Kabul is not even remotely close to covering the cost of running the country.   The U.S. a...   read more

The awarding of the Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer has raised the issue of why the former U.S. Marine was given the nation’s highest honor while others who participated in the same gallantry did not.   On September 8, 2009, Afghan soldiers and...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice paid what might be considered unlawful prices for food at agency conferences over a two-year period, according to the department’s inspector general.   After reviewing food arrangements from 2007 to 2009, the IG co...   read more

  “Since the first day of his Administration, President Barack Obama has made Open Government a high priority.” Thus begins the latest product of the Obama administration’s effort at transparency—an opening sentence of a report that was unveile...   read more

The Obama administration, which supports the end of global warming, has embraced a petroleum project that would help produce oil so bad for the planet that the oil-friendly administration of George W. Bush outlawed its use in the United States. ...   read more

The lone 9/11 family that has held out for 10 years in order to have its day in court has decided after all to settle before going to trial.   The survivors of Mark Bavis say they had no choice.   Mike Bavis, twin brother of the pro hockey s...   read more

Jennie Linn McCormack of Idaho is suing a local prosecutor for trying to convict her for using the morning-after pill to terminate her pregnancy.   McCormack, a single mother of three children, ended her pregnancy after she purchased FDA-appro...   read more

More than half of all drug-related arrests in the U.S. last year involved marijuana, prompting advocates for the legalization of the controlled substance to complain that the war on drugs is largely driven by “minor” offenses.   Law enforcemen...   read more

Seismologists around the world are closely watching an unprecedented legal case in Italy that is threatening to indict their entire profession.   On trial are seven scientists and other experts accused of manslaughter for allegedly failing to ...   read more

Officials in the Department of Defense are frustrated over the continued use of National Guard troops to police the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a new government report.   There are currently 1,140 Guardsmen patrolling the border. Abo...   read more

Most Americans probably don’t know what europium oxide is. But they surely know one of the consumer products it’s widely used in: compact fluorescent light bulbs.   They also may have noticed just how expensive these light bulbs have become, a...   read more

The difference between foreign policy and U.S. law has been on full display for about 4,000 immigrants trapped in limbo by an American government that can’t agree with itself.   For those who fought against Saddam Hussein while he ruled Iraq, ...   read more

What consumers call “buying in bulk” the U.S. government calls “strategic sourcing.”   Beginning this week, some of Washington’s largest agencies and departments will join together to buy office printers, copiers and scanners with the intentio...   read more

Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd loves his Vegemite, but enjoying it in the United States has become a challenge.   On Sunday, Rudd had to convince American customs inspectors at a New York City airport not to confiscate his Vegemite, a...   read more

Mary Schapiro, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has hired a lawyer to guide her through an investigation into her agency’s signing a half-billion-dollar office lease it could not afford.   The $557 million lease “grossly ...   read more

This year’s annual International Day of Peace won’t be marred by an American missile launch after all.   Last month, when the U.S. Air Force announced plans to conduct another Minuteman 3 missile test off the coast of California on September 2...   read more