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

Having moved on from being fired during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, Teresa Chambers was pleasantly surprised to learn she can have her old job back as chief of the United States Park Police.   Chambers, the first woman and...   read more

Frustrated over the lack of fee collections that support its work, the Louisiana Public Defender Board has sued nearly two dozen judges in New Orleans.   The public defenders say 23 municipal judges have not been collecting a mandatory $35 fee...   read more

For the first time ever, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) plans to make public thousands of complaints it receives from Americans about harmful products. Consumer advocates have hailed the decision to create a Web-based database con...   read more

Only 3% percent of those serving in the U.S. military today consider themselves evangelical Christians. And yet the percentage of evangelical chaplains serving the religious needs of soldiers and officers is 33%, according to information from th...   read more

Not only does the federal government not bother to check if a company owes federal taxes before awarding a contract—but even the IRS fails to perform this duty when it hires businesses to perform a service for the agency. In both instances, fede...   read more

The Mdewakanton Sioux community is set to receive money it’s been owed for more than a century, for siding with the U.S. government when other Indians rose up against white settlers in the 1800s.   In a series of treaties between the Minnesota S...   read more

Both foreign and domestic mining companies have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for more time to comment on new rules requiring the disclosure of deals involving “conflict minerals.”   Largely involving the Democratic Republ...   read more

Arizona, where accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner shot 19 people, killing six in Tucson, is one of three states in the country that allows adults to carry concealed weapons without a permit. (The others are Vermont and Alaska.) The law took effec...   read more

Following Saturday’s shooting in Arizona, which wounded a congresswoman and killed a federal judge, Representative Robert Brady (D-Pennsylvania) plans to introduce legislation that would outlaw the use of threatening language or symbols against ...   read more

In an attempt to be more proactive with China over its exports of dangerous goods, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is opening its first overseas office, in Beijing.   The decision comes after numerous recalls in recent years...   read more

The U.S. military from now on will be able to only “buy American” when it comes to the purchase of solar energy panels—a move that may upset the government of China.   During the closing days of Congress last month, lawmakers inserted language...   read more

Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have given up on a criminal case against environmental activists after an undercover police officer responsible for gathering incriminating evidence exposed his identity and expressed regret for his actions.   ...   read more

The Department of Defense budget is not going down, regardless of the recent talk by Defense Secretary Robert Gates trumpeting $78 billion in military cuts (over five years). Yes, Gates plans to trim spending in some areas, and even eliminate ce...   read more

Like no other presidential administration before it, the Obama administration is cracking down on government officials who leak classified information to the media. The latest case has been brought against Jeffrey Sterling, an ex-CIA officer who...   read more

Wall Street may soon become as much a foe as it has been a friend of the pharmaceutical industry. After spending decades pumping up the profits of Big Pharma by trading its shares, wealthy investors are now toying with the idea of financing whis...   read more

Republican Representative Tom Petri of Wisconsin wanted the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) last month to extend the deadline for public comments on the proposed closing of a mail processing facility in Oshkosh. Petri sent a letter from his Washingto...   read more