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

A longtime cabinet minister and diplomat, Winston Thompson came out of retirement in April 2009 to serve as Fiji’s ambassador to the United States. His appointment was announced one week before Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo suspended his n...   read more

Recording law enforcement in the act of breaking the law can itself be an unlawful violation, as some states have taken the side of police against citizens filming instances of brutality or misconduct.   At least 12 states have made it illegal...   read more

More than 170 teachers and administrators spent 10 years helping students in the Atlanta school system cheat on a standardized test, according to an investigation launched by Governor Nathan Deal. The multiple-choice exam, known as the Criterion...   read more

The U.S. Navy set a record last year by firing 17 officers, and it is on pace to eclipse that mark in 2011.   So far this year naval leaders have discharged 15 commanders, with three of them coming in the same week this month.   Some observe...   read more

Call it the reversal of hell freezing over: the burning of frozen wasteland.   Only it’s already happened.   With global warming causing ice to melt at record rates in the Arctic, Alaska’s tundra has become exposed to the threat of wildfires. ...   read more

Officials in Sioux City, Iowa, have been told by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that they can find out how the decision was made to move a mail processing facility to another town.   As long as Sioux City forks over more than $800,000.   Onc...   read more

When the Department of Defense decides to buy a new weapons system, there’s at least a 50% chance the price tag will be higher than promised, based on a new government watchdog report.   A review of nearly 100 weapons programs by the Government ...   read more

Life in the country and small towns may be void of the congestion and crime of the big city. But rural living does not necessarily translate into better health, or for that matter better medical care.   The UnitedHealth Center for Health & Ref...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may relax conflict-of-interest rules that keep scientists with financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries from advising the regulatory body.   FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg ack...   read more

The legal saga of environmentalist Tim DeChristopher ended this week when a federal judge sentenced the Utah man to two years in prison for interfering with government auctions of energy leases.   In 2008, DeChristopher crashed a federal sale ...   read more

Realizing it made a big mistake, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to cancel an expensive radiation-detection system intended to help customs officials foil terrorist attempts to smuggle nuclear bombs or material into the Uni...   read more

It is one of the largest, and certainly most powerful, myths in American politics today: that America’s debt is in the hands of foreigners, primarily the Chinese.   By repeatedly telling the American people that the U.S. national debt is contr...   read more

Non-profits can seek financial assistance from the Department of Homeland Security for buttressing their operations against terrorist attacks. But religious-oriented groups have the best shot of receiving funding from the Urban Areas Security In...   read more

Employment opportunities used to be for people out of work. But in today’s post-recession economy not having a job is an automatic disqualifier, leaving many of the 14 million Americans who are unemployed besides themselves.   The New York Tim...   read more

The Great Recession was hard on a lot of people. But it was especially devastating on minorities who have experienced far greater losses in terms of household wealth than whites did.   Experts at the Pew Research Center found that from 2005 to...   read more

Atheists are suing to have a gigantic Christian cross removed from the former World Trade Center site where a memorial is being developed to those who died on September 11, 2001. The organization American Atheists has filed litigation with the New...   read more