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

L-3 Communications, one of the top defense contractors in the United States, is being sued by a group of Serbs who accuse the company of helping Croatians commit genocide against their people during the Balkans war in 1995.   A lawsuit filed i...   read more

Once considered the dream of science fiction writers, the use of suspended animation has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials.   Spearheading the futuristic technique is Dr. Peter Rhee, who gained na...   read more

The justification behind contracting out government work to private employees is that it’s supposed to be cheaper to let the private sector do it. Well, that may not be true.   According to a study by the watchdog group the Project on Governme...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probed a possible connection between a Saudi family living in Florida and the hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks, but never informed Congress or the 9/11 Commission about the investigatio...   read more

At a time when the U.S. government needs more revenue to help close a trillion-dollar a year deficit, large American corporations want to be exempted from paying taxes on overseas corporate profits, which could further worsen the red-ink problem...   read more

More than one in four African-Americans and Hispanics lived in poverty during 2010 in the United States, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Department of Health and Human Services defines poverty as $22,350 annual inc...   read more

The United States has lost sight of enough nuclear material, which was provided to friendly countries for civilian energy use, to manufacture hundreds of nuclear warheads.   An investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that t...   read more

Upset over the lack of prosecutions of high-ranking Catholic leaders, sex-abuse victims are attempting to take their case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which was established for the prosecution of war crimes.   The Ce...   read more

Glen Milner of Lake Forest Park, Washington, has been trying for eight years to find out if the U.S. Navy’s largest munitions depot on the West Coast is a threat to nearby communities.   But the Navy has refused to turn over the information Mi...   read more

For those physically affected by wireless signals, the place to go is in a remote part of West Virginia made possible by the U.S. government.   In the small town of Green Bank (population: 143), residents can live free of wireless signals. Exp...   read more

College graduates are struggling the most since the 1990s to keep up with their student loan payments, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.   Among student borrowers, 8.8% defaulted last year on their loans, up from 7% ...   read more

As expected, the U.S. Navy set a record in 2011 by firing more commanders in a single year than ever before.   Naval leaders on September 7 relieved Commander Mark Olson of his command of the USS The Sullivans, making him the 18th skipper boot...   read more

Advocates for shrinking, if not entirely eliminating, the tax on capital gains insist such a move is good for the economy, summing up their position with the slogan “Capital Gains=Better Jobs.”   But for many on the left, the message could be:...   read more

Leaders of Saudi Arabia are being sued by Lloyd’s insurance for playing a key role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.   Lloyd’s has paid more than $215 million in claims filed by families of those killed in the attacks, and wants Saudi leaders to ...   read more

Slashing trillions of dollars out of the federal budget, which many lawmakers are seeking, will help reduce the deficit. But it could also have a negative impact on small communities across the United States.   Cutting the budget means shrinki...   read more

While earning billions of dollars in revenues, America’s video game industry has enjoyed a variety of tax breaks from the U.S. government. Electronic Arts, for example, earned $1.2 billion in global profits over the past five years, but only paid ...   read more