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 Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving warrantless tracking of suspects by law enforcement using GPS devices.   Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice reached out to the Supreme Cour...   read more

Strapped for cash, but determined to keep illegal immigrants out, the government of the state of Arizona plans to build more fence-line along the border with Mexico using private donations and prison labor.   The legislature has already author...   read more

Republicans in Florida are preparing to adopt a new law forbidding doctors from asking patients if they own guns.   Representing the first of its kind, the legislation is directed primarily at pediatricians, who routinely ask new parents if th...   read more

Claiming the Obama administration overstepped its bounds, the state of Utah is suing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar over the Department of the Interior’s designation of six million acres of state territory as “wild lands.”   Utah offici...   read more

Thomas Silverstein has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement, and because of that he’s suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons.   America’s “most isolated man” has been held in an extreme form of solitary confinement under a “no human...   read more

Angry over the revelation that Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight in Pakistan, Congress is now debating whether to make changes to the foreign aid given to the United States’ “inconstant” ally, known in some circles as a “frenemy.”   Pa...   read more

The landmark Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which threw out campaign contribution limits for corporations and unions, substantially altered the field of campaign spending.   After examining election reports, the Center for R...   read more

Frustrated over repeated strikes by its workers in Seattle, Boeing has sought to build a new airliner production line to South Carolina, an anti-union state. But the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled the manufacturer must have the ...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a Harvard-connected consulting firm for helping the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi without complying with federal law.   Monitor Group, an international consulting firm headquartered...   read more

Liechtenstein is one of the smallest independent countries in the world. With a population of barely 36,000, the choice of possible diplomats is a bit thin, so it is not surprising that the nation’s ambassador to the United States, Claudia Frits...   read more

SafeHouse, The Wall Street Journal’s answer to WikiLeaks, did not get off to a good start with the whistleblowing community.   SafeHouse is supposed to be a place where people can anonymously expose corporate “fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing...   read more

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran has lost a couple of his top aides to charges of sorcery by the country’s leading religious figures.   One, Abbas Ghaffari, was arrested for being involved with spirits and exorcism. One Iranian news websit...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off her squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had allegedly tried to rape her.   The girl, known as H.S. because ...   read more

After more than 30 years as a diplomat, Patrick S. Moon is finally getting his first crack as an ambassador. After holding a variety of posts covering issues from Africa to Europe to South Asia, he was sworn as U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herz...   read more

A 20-year career diplomat and African affairs specialist, J. Thomas Dougherty received his first chance to serve as an ambassador in taking over the top post at the U.S. embassy in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. He was nominated by Pre...   read more

Osama bin Laden’s death has not left al-Qaeda leaderless, or without presence around the globe.   Stepping in to replace bin Laden as the top al-Qaeda man is Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militan...   read more