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

Cities have a way of altering the intensity of storms as they pass overhead and move downwind, according to researchers at Purdue University.   After analyzing 10 years of data from storms around the Indianapolis area, Indiana’s state climatol...   read more

George Sarris has won his three-year battle with the U.S. Air Force, which retaliated against him after he complained about dangerously-poor maintenance work on American spy planes.   A lifelong civilian mechanic working at Offutt Air Force Ba...   read more

Worldwide emissions of carbon-dioxide increased to record levels last year, prompting scientists to warn that current energy production could make it difficult to meet the goal for slowing down the rate of global warming.   In 2010, CO2 emissi...   read more

Seeking to bring down costs, the Obama administration is implementing a program that collects data on how much hospitals bill the Medicare program for patient care—and hospitals are not happy about it. Hospital payments account for the largest s...   read more

After al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in Kenya on August 7, 1998, Osama bin Laden said the American diplomatic mission was targeted because it was serving as a major CIA station.   It turns out the former terrorist leader was right.   Among...   read more

For years secrecy trumped communications within the U.S. Department of Energy, resulting in the United States now facing a critical shortage of a rare gas needed for detecting nuclear weapons smuggling.   At one end of the Energy Department is...   read more

Lawmakers and government watchdogs have stepped up their calls for the White House to fill the State Department’s inspector general position which has been vacant since January 2008.   The Government Accountability Office and elected officials...   read more

The effects of hackers who infiltrated a computer security firm in March are still being felt, this time at Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors.   EMC Corp’s RSA security division was hacked two months ago, leaving vulnerable numerou...   read more

Under the guise of combating instability in the Middle East and countering Iranian influence, the royal family of Saudi Arabia has taken military and diplomatic steps to reduce the likelihood of more democratic revolutions gaining power in the r...   read more

In the nearly 40 years that the government has been keeping track of employment rates for African-Americans, the percentage of adult black men with jobs had never fallen below 60%. But in February 2009, the first month of the first term of the n...   read more

Nearly 10 years ago, detainee Abu Zubaydah lost his left eye while in the custody of the CIA at a secret location. To this day he says he doesn’t know why the Americans removed it.   During his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was s...   read more

If AllGov readers are any indication, the dominant concerns in May have been peace, jobs and the end of the world, although health care and dictators were not far behind.   1. Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Impr...   read more

When General Motors and Chrysler were bailed out by the Obama administration, they received not only billion-dollar deals, but also a get-out-jail-free-card for auto liability lawsuits.   Today, the newly reborn car makers don’t have to pay th...   read more

Within three years, most airline passengers in the U.S. will have to pass through full-body scanners before boarding planes, exposing them to radiation levels that the government says are safe but that some scientists have questioned. The move t...   read more

Federal law has long prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions, except in cases of rape or incest. But this exception does not apply to female members of the military who are raped and become pregnant.   Democrats, civil liberta...   read more

In order to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States in May 2009, U.S.-born scholar Michael B. Oren had to relinquish his American citizenship, because the Jewish state does not allow dual citizens to represent it overseas.   When newly...   read more