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

Syria is on the hook to pay more than $400 million to the families of two American contractors killed by a terrorist organization aided by the government led by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.   The DC Court of Appeals upheld a lower court de...   read more

According to a Pakistani-American who helped pull off the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Pakistan’s intelligence agency worked with the culprits who killed more than 166 people in India, including six Americans.   Coming on the heels of the di...   read more

Speaking at fundraiser in San Francisco on April 21, President Barack Obama declared that the U.S. Army private accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks is guilty of breaking the law, before he has even gone to trial.   In respons...   read more

Whether there’s a correlation or it’s just a coincidence, the number of protestors arrested each year since President Barack Obama took office has gone up.   In 2009, Obama’s first year in the White House, 665 people were arrested. The followi...   read more

Officials in Oregon may want to post a marital warning for candidates seeking to run for the state’s 5th congressional district seat. It seems being the officeholder pretty much guarantees a failed marriage.   In the 28-year history of 5th dis...   read more

Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations that benefited from the federal stimulus plan owe the IRS more than $750 million in back taxes.   A Government Accountability Office report states that at least 3,700 recipients of $24 billi...   read more

It’s hard to believe that in the second decade of the 21st century there still exists a government so repressive that it does not allow women to drive. But such is the case in one of the United States’ closest allies: Saudi Arabia.   Manal al-...   read more

The Department of Justice is refusing to reimburse $750,000 to the owner of a rare Ferrari that was damaged by an FBI agent.   Stolen in 2003 from a dealership in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, the 1995 Ferrari F50 was recovered by the FBI five years...   read more

A longtime Kentucky politician whose career began in the mid-1970s, Steven Lynn Beshear serves as co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for 2011, along with his duties as governor of his state. Created in 1965, the ARC is an econ...   read more

Martin Andjaba became ambassador of Namibia to the United States in September 2010.   Born on December 17, 1957, in Ontokolo, Northern Namibia, Andjaba obtained in 1981 a Diploma in Public Administration and Management at the United Nations In...   read more

When it comes to investigating corporations of bribery and other crimes, the federal government prefers to save money—and allow suspects to conduct their own probes—than perform their own snooping from start to finish.   Whether the concern is...   read more

A government watchdog group has sued the Department of Justice to force the release of a secret memo used by the FBI to access any American telephone records without court approval.   The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed its civil ca...   read more

Conservatives at the national level can debate about the merits of climate change, but local government officials are not waiting around for the possible impact on their communities.   Having been told by scientists that their city’s weather m...   read more

Summer may mean warmer weather ahead, but not necessarily sunny days for the economy.   Recent figures produced by the Department of Labor have shown an uptick in new jobs, which has heartened some economists and no doubt the White House. In M...   read more

Frustrated over the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and the devaluing of the U.S. dollar, lawmakers in Utah have legalized the use of gold and silver as currency, making the state the first in the country to move in this direction.   ...   read more

The average American pays about 12% of his or her income to federal income tax. Thanks to statistics compiled by US Uncut Chicago, a group that advocates boycotting U.S. corporations that avoid paying taxes in the United States, we now know the ...   read more