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

At the U.S. Navy’s Virginia testing grounds for its most sophisticated air and ballistic missile defense radar systems, a unique six-story building sits largely vacant, after more than a billion dollars was invested in the program behind its pur...   read more

Rafat Azzam is suing three companies, including a division of Citibank, for allegedly tearing down the house he purchased last year in northeast Washington, DC.   Azzam, an Egyptian citizen who came to Washington to pursue a degree in mechanic...   read more

A career diplomat, Cyrille S. Oguin has served as ambassador to the United States from the West African nation of Benin since March 2001.   Oguin is a graduate of the Algiers National School of Administration (Foreign Service) and the Geneva G...   read more

Jefferson County, Alabama, is placing nearly 1,000 public workers on administrative leave without pay as officials struggle to pay off a staggering debt of $3.2 billion. The financial crater county leaders dug dates back to the 1990s when they a...   read more

The Department of Health and Human Services has classified formaldehyde as a known carcinogen, but it remains to be seen if another part of the federal government will do its part to limit the chemical’s exposure to the public.   Health expert...   read more

The IRS has reported that the number of taxpayers earning more than $200,000 annually who owed no income taxes nearly doubled from 2007 to 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available.   There were 4,375,660 individual income ...   read more

From natural settings to man-made structures, nearly a dozen historic locations in the U.S. are threatened with being lost forever, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.   Included on the list is Bear Butte in South Dakota...   read more

China has invited Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, to visit the country on June 27 despite the fact that he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and genocide. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for al-Ba...   read more

The latest economic news makes it all too clear who the winners are in the U.S. economy. Small businesses are struggling to expand, while the biggest companies are growing even bigger. And a smaller percentage of the nation’s overall income is g...   read more

The more things change, the more they stay the same in Washington, DC, where the current president promised to do things differently from his predecessor, but in fact has done exactly the same thing George W. Bush did in rewarding big-time fundr...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to allow Indian tribes to build casinos far from their reservations, a practice that was restricted under a rule adopted by President George W. Bush’s Department of the Interior.   Permitting the developmen...   read more

Companies in Washington State can fire employees for using medical marijuana in a legal manner, according to a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court.   An unnamed woman training for a position with TeleTech Customer Care Management, a customer-s...   read more

Diplomats from Washington and Moscow have been sparring over the ongoing turmoil in Syria, reminding some of the Cold War days when the two superpowers engaged in surrogate wars and jockeyed for influence in the Middle East.   American declara...   read more

Labeled the biggest heist in American history, about $6.6 billion delivered to Iraq by the United States after the 2003 invasion has disappeared.   The money was part of $12 billion in cash that was flown to Iraq on U.S. military planes, presu...   read more

It’s impossible to know if the federal government is effectively spending billions of dollars on contractors to help fight the nation’s war on drugs, says a U.S. senator.   Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri, chair of the Subcommittee on Co...   read more

Hecla Mining Company has agreed to pay one of the largest settlements ever involving toxic clean-up under the Superfund program. The good news is that the money will be used to help fund the clean-up. The bad news is that the amount won’t come c...   read more