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

In keeping with the holiday spirit, Representative Darrell Issa (R-California), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, asked corporations last month to send him their wish list of government regulations they’d l...   read more

The State Department under President George W. Bush aggressively promoted genetically modified (GM) foods overseas, and discussed threats of economic retaliation against European countries that banned the importation of such crops.   Cables re...   read more

Waste Control Specialists has won the right to import low-level nuclear waste from around the country into Texas, marking a victory for billionaire Harold Simmons.   Simmons has been the second biggest individual donor to Texas Governor Rick P...   read more

Perhaps no other group in the United States has suffered more from the Great Recession than Native Americans. Over a three-year period, the American Indian unemployment rate nearly doubled, from 7.7% to 15.2%. In the same period, the unemploymen...   read more

In need of cyber warriors equipped with the latest IT knowledge, the Department of Defense has started a pilot program that will send some of its employees to work in the private sector for brief periods.   The plan allows Pentagon IT speciali...   read more

John Boehner (pronounced “BAY-ner”), a staunchly pro-business conservative, has spent 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, rising to the top of the Republican Party leadership by making himself useful to those above him in the hierarch...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refused to reveal how it decides which government documents to turn over to the public—in essence concealing how it goes about concealing.   The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibili...   read more

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has agreed to allow a white television news anchor fired for using the word “nigger” in a June 2007 newsroom meeting to proceed with his lawsuit against his former employer, WTXF Fox 29.   Tom Burlington claims ...   read more

Supreme Foodservice, provider of meals to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan since 2005, has won another contract with the Department of Defense, after the company hired the Pentagon’s top logistics leader who oversaw its work.   Having hired retire...   read more

Ronald Herrick, 79, who became the first successful organ donor in medical history when he gave a kidney to his twin brother, Richard, died on December 27, 2010, while recovering from heart surgery.   The December 23, 1954, transplant surgery ...   read more

Serving as an American diplomat, Commerce official, even the president of the United States, sometimes requires being a salesman for Boeing.   Another revelation brought about by the WikiLeaks publication of classified State Department cables ...   read more

School board officials in Tucson are standing by their Mexican American Studies program in the face of a new law that seeks to ban all ethnic studies in public schools.   The new law, which took effect January 1, prohibits classes that “promote ...   read more

The Department of Defense’s health plan, Tricare, has so far refused to cover a special treatment for veterans who have suffered brain damage as a result of combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.   Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is viewed by many ne...   read more

The legal hurdles just keep cropping up for developers of solar energy farms in the Southern California desert.   California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to st...   read more

Waiting for “Superman”, a documentary currently angling for an Academy Award nomination, puts much of the blame for the poor state of education in the United States on bad teachers and on teacher unions. But it’s possible that teachers could be ...   read more

The new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives intends to give broad new powers to the chairman of the budget committee, authorizing him to craft large budget cuts or tax breaks without requiring a full vote by all House member...   read more