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

Eric D. Benjaminson, the U.S. ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Principe, is a career diplomat specializing in economic and African Affairs. He presented his credentials in Gabon on December 3, 2010.   On his father’s side, Benjaminson come...   read more

Specially programmed computers are being used by stock market experts to analyze news media sites, blogs and even social media networks like Twitter to determine the right time to buy or sell.   For instance, Dow Jones has a program that scans...   read more

The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, branded a terrorist organization during the Bush administration, is set to receive $40,800 in damages from the federal government for illegally spying on the foundation’s communications. The government also ha...   read more

Want to know what life is like for those working in law enforcement, or for someone enduring poverty and homelessness? You could read about these ways of life, or you could learn about them by checking out a person at the public library in Toron...   read more

A federal appeals court has allowed a Tennessee highway patrolman to sue the state for being demoted on partisan grounds. Robert Eckerman claims he was busted down to sergeant from lieutenant because he is a Republican working in a Democratic ad...   read more

U.S. ambassador to Benin since September 30, 2009, James Knight is a Vietnam veteran and experienced diplomat who has spent almost his entire career serving in African countries.   Knight served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He late...   read more

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, was not released from prison in Scotland and returned home to Libya because he was near death, contend four U.S. senators. Rather, al-Megrahi was freed in large part because of a l...   read more

If at first you don’t succeed, spend, spend more money. That’s the Department of Defense’s solution for training Afghanistan’s still-not-ready-for-primetime police force, which has suffered from corruption, incompetence and illiteracy. But it’s ...   read more

Seeking to slow the sale of assault rifles to Mexico’s drug cartels, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants an emergency regulation adopted by January that would require certain gun dealers along the southwestern bor...   read more

Who needs simulated hell when the real one is available? That’s the attitude of many in the U.S. Army who are skipping the service’s elite Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia—where soldiers endure 60 days of simulated combat under grueling co...   read more

So much for culture trumping consumerism. At a shopping mall outside Sacramento, California, thousands of singers descended on the Westfield Galleria in Roseville to perform a rendition of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” But before a single note c...   read more

Bank regulators in Washington may cringe as much as those running the financial institution targeted for the next WikiLeaks bombshell.   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has promised to release “tens of thousands” of internal documents from a ...   read more

An unmanned aircraft from Mexico crashed last week into the backyard of an El Paso, Texas, home, presumably while looking for drug smugglers along the U.S. border.   American officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were ...   read more

With too many lawyers taking advantage of struggling homeowners, the California legislature approved a new law preventing attorneys from getting paid until they have finished helping their clients with loan modifications. The problem with this s...   read more

It took three years and 57 pints of his own blood for Saddam Hussein to have a special copy of the Qur’an printed, and today, no one in Iraq knows exactly what to do with it.   Saddam commissioned the work on his 60th birthday in April 1997 an...   read more

Army Master Sergeant Mark Morgan knows how to mix it up on the battlefield and in the kitchen.   The 16-year veteran and Army Ranger served two tours in Iraq and four in Afghanistan, and received the Bronze Star along the way for his service. ...   read more