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. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.   After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s l...   read more

Since the death of Senator Robert W. Byrd (D-West Virginia) on June 28, 2010, a bona fide war hero, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), has served as President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate. The President pro tempore (aka President pro tem, Latin...   read more

An early political supporter of President Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, David I. Adelman became U.S. ambassador to Singapore on April 29, 2010.   Born in New York City, Adelman grew up in Atlanta. The son of a hardware salesman and a ...   read more

Contrary to its own policy of staying out of capital punishment matters, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has helped two states import from the United Kingdom a scarce type of anesthetic used in lethal injections.   The FDA is charged wi...   read more

For first time in its history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded a clean water permit for a coal mining operation, a move that is likely to provoke backlash from the industry.   The decision in effect kills the Spruc...   read more

The Department of Defense is on the hook for paying more than $1 billion just to feed the U.S. Marine Corps, now that a contract with a France-based company has swelled with added costs.   What was supposed to cost $881 million is now looking ...   read more

With the war in Afghanistan spilling over into Pakistan, where the CIA has launched numerous drone attacks on insurgents, the Obama administration selected Cameron Munter, a veteran diplomat with experience in Iraq, to run the U.S. embassy in Is...   read more

Asif Chaudhry has been the U.S. ambassador to Moldova, a small country in southeast Europe sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, since July 11, 2008. Moldova, which declared its independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, has seen a suc...   read more

For the past seven years, federal law has severely limited the tracing of gun sales by merchants, keeping researchers and the public in the dark over unscrupulous stores that sell to criminals. President Barack Obama vowed during the 2008 campai...   read more

Perhaps Americans can learn something from their northern neighbor regarding home finance and staving off mortgage disasters.   While the U.S. has struggled with its crippled housing market since 2008, Canada is doing just fine. Not a single C...   read more

Celebrity Courtney Love has gone too far this time, says fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir (a.k.a. Dawn Younger-Smith). The singer/provocateur is being sued for insulting remarks she posted via Twitter about Simorangkir, who is owed $4,000 for c...   read more

What’s good for today could wreak bankruptcy tomorrow for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), says Republican Newt Gingrich about the plan regarding “Forever Stamps.”   U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue wants to go exclusively with forever sta...   read more

It has been nearly 47 years since Frank Morris, an African-American business owner in Ferriday, Louisiana, was killed when members of the Ku Klux Klan set fire to his shoe store in 1964. The identity of the culprits has remained unknown, but a l...   read more

It turns out that the great tax compromise hammered out between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans will not prevent taxes from going up for many Americans, mainly low-income earners.   An analysis of the tax bill by the Urban...   read more

It’s not so much a matter of what Lockheed Martin does for the U.S. government, but what it doesn’t do. The super-sized defense contractor does, to say the least, a lot of business with Uncle Sam, who has been very generous towards the company…a...   read more

Figuring out how many foreign military bases the United States is about as certain as guessing the correct number of marbles in a glass bowl.   Writer Nick Turse, who’s written on the subject of U.S. overseas bases, can’t even come up with a s...   read more