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

A lawsuit against chemical company Rohm and Haas has resumed in a Philadelphia courtroom, after the judge abruptly dismissed the jury last October because a plaintiff’s expert witness had changed his epidemiological report after the trial starte...   read more

Immigrants looking to speed up the process of becoming American citizens can now turn to the military. Although military service has long been a path to citizenship, because of a need for specialists and those with language skills, the U.S. Army...   read more

Recy Taylor may soon receive her apology. The 91-year-old African-American woman was raped in Alabama by a gang of Caucasian men in 1944, but never saw justice served as two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the suspects.   Th...   read more

On April 6, President Barack Obama nominated D. Brent Hardt to be the U.S. ambassador to the South American nation of Guyana.   Hardt earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Fletche...   read more

A longtime diplomat and cabinet official, Alfredo Vicente Chiaradia became ambassador of Argentina to the United States in December 2010.   Born on February 15, 1945, in Bahía Blanca, Chiaradia received his master’s degree in political economy...   read more

In Florida, where Republican lawmakers want to prevent public employee unions from collecting dues through government payroll systems, labor leaders have decided to pull their organizations’ accounts from banks connected to the Florida Chamber o...   read more

Match.com, the popular online dating website, has announced it will begin screening applicants against the national sex offender registry after it was sued by a woman claiming she was raped by someone she met through the service.   The new pol...   read more

Late for his show in the nation’s capital on April 19, Charlie Sheen received a police escort from the airport to the event venue, traveling up to 80 miles per hour along the way.   On the way, Sheen tweeted: “in car with Police escort in fron...   read more

1. In 2009, more than 1.7 million babies or 41.0% of all births were to unmarried women. For African-American, Native American and Hispanic women, a majority of births were out-of-wedlock. 2. The birth rate for mothers between the ages of 40 an...   read more

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has taken exception to the assertion by The Wall Street Journal that it’s pointless to increase taxes on the wealthy.   Journal editors claimed that even a 1...   read more

It was one year ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up, killing 11 workers and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Since the accident, Congress has held 60 hearings and introduced 150 bills to improve th...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama has taken the position that law enforcement should be allowed to monitor Americans without a warrant.   The administration has appealed a federal appellate court ruling that nullified...   read more

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has given up his political hostages –namely, all of President Barack Obama’s unconfirmed nominees—in exchange for $50,000 to study a key port back home.   After learning that his pet project ...   read more

Dr. Larry James, the former chief psychologist at Guantanamo, is facing potential investigation by the Ohio State Psychology Board for allegedly overseeing the torture of detainees.   Four Ohio residents have petitioned a local court to compel...   read more

San Diego Coastkeeper, an environmental group, has accused the U.S. Marine Corps of violating the Clean Water Act by polluting the Pacific Ocean with raw sewage and sludge. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court, the pollution originated fr...   read more

American Big Business increasingly gave up on hiring U.S. workers last decade, opting instead to expand hiring in foreign countries where labor is cheaper and regulations fewer in number.   A review by The Wall Street Journal of data from the ...   read more