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

The U.S. Navy has decided to name the last cargo ship of its kind after labor leader César Chávez.   Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the 14th Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship will carry the name of Chávez, who led the drive to unioni...   read more

Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require companies bidding on railway contracts to reveal any role they played in the Holocaust during World War II. The new law primarily targeted Keolis, a Paris-based company whose majority ...   read more

Lawyers for Daimler AG (DCAG) will have to defend their company in U.S. court over allegations that the auto manufacturer’s subsidiary, Mercedes-Benz, helped the military junta in Argentina do away with political dissidents four decades ago.   ...   read more

The largest daily newspapers in the U.S. have placed greater emphasis on coverage of the federal budget deficit than the issue of unemployment, even though the American public is most concerned with jobs and the economy. The latest Gallup Poll s...   read more

Big Oil is getting to keep its billion-dollar federal tax breaks, for the time being.   On a mostly partisan vote, the U.S. Senate defeated an attempt to eliminate government subsidies for five top petroleum producers: BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, ...   read more

Demand for emergency medical care increased by more than a third over the past two decades, while the number of available Emergency rooms declined.   A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association states that urban an...   read more

Civil libertarians and immigrant advocates are accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of withholding court-ordered information about its controversial Secure Communities program.   Secure Communities is meant to search out violent ...   read more

Survivors of Argentina’s military dictatorship four decades ago will have to wait for any help from the U.S. government in locating lost relatives, thanks to unwillingness on the part of House Republicans.   Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-N...   read more

It isn’t often that Congress voluntarily gives up power to the President of the United States, but that appears to be the case with a terrorism-related provision added to a military authorization act.   Hidden within the National Defense Autho...   read more

Under no circumstance can residents of Indiana resist police entering their homes, even if there are no legal grounds for officers to do so, according to the state’s highest court.   In a 3-2 ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court found “a right to...   read more

Media organizations and conservatives are rejecting President Barack Obama’s decision to keep hidden the photos of Osama bin Laden’s death, having filed formal requests to see the images.   The Associated Press and National Public Radio, as we...   read more

In a rare meeting of strangers, Sebastiao Lourenco was introduced recently at the New York Organ Donor Network headquarters to the family of the man who gave him another chance at life.   Lourenco, in need of a new heart, received a transplant...   read more

Non-profits providing free legal assistance to the poor have fallen on tough times as a result of budget cuts and the weak economy.   The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a quasi-corporation created by the federal government in 1974 that pr...   read more

A Pakistani-American is expected to testify at a federal trial in Chicago that Pakistan’s intelligence agency supported the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.   David Coleman Headley will tell how he began preparing for the attack two yea...   read more

Having fled the United States, leaving behind a tainted corporate reputation and a trail of legal battles, the man who created the infamous Blackwater security firm has set up shop in the Persian Gulf region, where he’ll be helping Arab dictator...   read more

The last thing the state of Texas needed was another wildfire, having had so many recently, and on top of that, getting the snub from Washington on its request for assistance. But another fire did break out, and the culprit was none other than t...   read more