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

Philip Murphy’s days as U.S. ambassador to Germany may be numbered. However, many of the media accounts have misrepresented Murphy’s position. Among the thousands of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks was one that the media characterized as...   read more

Fracking is becoming a nasty word for many Americans with underground wells. The term, which is a shortcut for “hydraulic fracturing,” applies to the method of extracting natural gas by injecting the earth with chemically-tainted water to break ...   read more

Nearly 10,000 Filipino survivors of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship or their relatives may finally see some of the money owed them after first filing a lawsuit in the mid-1980s. Marcos’ estate has avoided paying the plaintiffs nearly $2 billio...   read more

A federal judge for the past 15 years, William K. Sessions III has chaired the United States Sentencing Commission since October 2009. Created in 1984 to deal with disparities in sentencing in different states, the Commission develops sentencing...   read more

A veteran diplomat with more than 30 years of experience, William A. Stanton has served as director of the American Institute in Taiwan since August 2009. The Institute has served as the de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan since 1979, when the Unite...   read more

Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, has continually stonewalled federal attempts to learn all the details leading up to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Department of Justice has filed suit in federal court demanding...   read more

Because they fulfill the combat duties of warfare, male soldiers and their recent spike in suicides have garnered considerable media attention. But the problem of veterans taking their own lives has also become serious among women, who are endur...   read more

Federal law enforcement agencies don’t have to seek a court order to conduct real-time surveillance of credit card transactions of individuals. All that’s required is the filing of an administrative subpoena, which does not involve getting a jud...   read more

Thomas W. Padden, acting director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), is a veteran prosecutor with experience handling drug cases for the U.S. Department of Justice.   Padden received his Bachelor of Science from the ...   read more

After nearly three decades of work for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), Victor M. Fortuno was appointed interim president in January 2010. The LSC is a private, non-profit corporation established by the federal government to help low-income...   read more

For two years, politicians and the media have been expressing opinions about the $700 billion set aside for the “Wall Street Bailout” by the Treasury Department and about the bailouts of mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But that ...   read more

U.S. officials have long denied the existence of American military operations inside Pakistan and Yemen, for fear of upsetting the local Muslim populations. But the recent publication of State Department cables by WikiLeaks proves that U.S. forces...   read more

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) might want to have a talk with some of her caucus members. Bachmann founded the House of Representatives Tea Party Caucus because she said Americans were fed up with government over-spending.   But...   read more

After a human rights group in Spain tried to get six former Bush administration officials tried for justifying torture of terrorism suspects, Obama officials, along with Republican lawmakers, lobbied the Spanish government to drop the criminal cas...   read more

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five companies, including Halliburton, face indictments in Nigeria for their roles in allegedly bribing government officials to win a $6 billion liquefied natural-gas contract.   A Nigerian ...   read more

Coal is becoming an increasingly unpopular source of energy in the United States because of its danger to workers and to the environment. But the Chinese government considers these factors irrelevant. And so, China is poised to become a big inve...   read more