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

Limbiye Edawe Kadangha Bariki became the Togolese ambassador to the US on July 14, 2009.   Bariki graduated from the University of Benin in Togo (now known as the Univerity of Lomé) and the National School of Administration in Lomé, Togo.   ...   read more

The Obama administration’s effort to make an example of a former National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower has largely failed, now that its case in federal court has fallen apart.   Thomas Drake, an NSA computer specialist, was brought up o...   read more

More than 200 hundred years after it was produced, a book on cryptology is finally being declassified by the U.S. government.   The National Security Agency (NSA) decided that the 1809 book, Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Wr...   read more

Since October 2002, the U.S. State Department has kept track of American citizens who die in other countries from non-health-related causes. The State Department notes that their database is unavoidably incomplete, particularly because most U.S....   read more

Since October 2002, the U.S. State Department has kept track of American citizens who die in other countries from non-health-related causes. The State Department notes that their database is unavoidably incomplete, particularly because most U.S. c...   read more

A native of Pennsylvania, Patricia McMahon Hawkins has served as the United States Ambassador to the West African nation of Togo since August 22, 2008. Hawkins attended Barnard College in New York City and graduated from East Stroudsburg Univer...   read more

Four veterans have launched a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over the use of a large VA campus in West Los Angeles.   The plaintiffs, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union and supported by the Vietnam Vet...   read more

Americans are continuing to be killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and members of Congress are debating whether the U.S. should continue bombing in Libya. But in the meantime, pretty much out of the glare of the media, U.S. forces have been fighting...   read more

The veto has not been a significant political weapon used by President Barack Obama during his two and a half years in office.   Obama has issued a total of just two vetoes since taking office, an average of one veto every 435 days. This avera...   read more

Webcamgate is continuing to haunt school officials in Philadelphia.   Yet another lawsuit has been filed against the Lower Merion School District for illegally spying on students by remotely activating webcams on school-issued laptops. About 1...   read more

British hedge funds and European financial speculators are buying up large tracts of land in Africa as part of investment schemes for American universities. The “land grab,” as described by critics, threatens to force thousands of people off the...   read more

After issuing a report two years ago warning of a possible rise in rightwing extremism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has minimized its efforts to thwart such a threat.   A few months after President Barack Obama took office in 200...   read more

The distance from Wisconsin to Connecticut is not as great as their political divide.   While one state, with Republicans in control of the state capital, is piling up conservative legislative victories, the other, under Democratic control, is...   read more

Accused of bilking the federal government and the state of Texas out of $40 million, the city of Dallas has reached a settlement to resolve fraudulent claims involving the Medicare and Medicaid programs.   According to a press release from the...   read more

School officials can now request locally-grown fresh produce through a federal program designed to provide children with healthy foods.   Thanks to a policy change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, school districts can specify that they w...   read more

It turns out that more children were detained at Guantánamo than the U.S. government previously admitted.   Based on documents newly released by WikiLeaks, the Center for the Study of Human Rights in Americas at the University of California Da...   read more