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

Although no formal policy has been adopted for dealing with the problem, defense officials are moving closer to acknowledging the health consequences of open-pit burning on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Some soldiers who have devel...   read more

Vilma S. Martínez, the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, has a long history of straddling the worlds of corporate boardrooms and legal defense of minorities.  One of the leading voices in Hispanic civil rights since the 1970s, Martínez has run the Mex...   read more

Fort Detrick in Maryland is responsible for numerous cases of cancer, including three in one family, according to local residents. Base officials have admitted Agent Orange was used there a long time ago, along with industrial solvents, but the cl...   read more

Bank officials in Romania have come under fire from Holocaust experts for issuing a special coin honoring Miron Cristea, a former prime minister who demonized Jews prior to the outbreak of World War II.   Cristea led Romania’s Orthodox Church be...   read more

Faulty sewage infrastructure in Allentown, Pennsylvania, caused raw sewage to spill into Little Lehigh Creek from 1999 to 2008, resulting in more than 33 million gallons of untreated waste to flow into the tributary. An investigation by the Allent...   read more

When the Federal Reserve Bank of New York helped bail out Bear Stearns two years ago, it didn’t anticipate becoming the bad guy and having to foreclose on American homeowners and business owners. But that’s the ugly situation facing the New York F...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to an old pro to take over the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Jacob “Jack” J. Lew, who ran OMB during the last three years of the Clinton administration, when the federal budget ran a billion-dollar surplu...   read more

President Barack Obama considers himself a devout Christian who uses the teachings of Jesus Christ to guide his conduct and ideals—but how does that jive with Obama’s gusto for warfare, writes John Whitehead, founder and president of The Rutherfor...   read more

With the eventual sale of the Tuttle farm in Dover, New Hampshire, the end will come for a remarkable tale of living history. The farm was first established in 1632 by John Tuttle, who arrived from England and, with a land grant from King Charles ...   read more

Like those before him, Thomas Tidwell has risen up through the ranks of the U.S. Forest Service during his 32-year career before being appointed chief of the agency on June 17, 2009, by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.   After growing up in Bo...   read more

Eight foreign aid workers, including six Americans, were murdered in Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. The six were medical workers belonging to the Christian aid group International Assistance Mission. Two Afghan interprete...   read more

Mentally ill individuals detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are not provided legal representation when facing deportation hearings. This means those incapable of representing themselves before an immigration judge face a greater r...   read more

Janice Shaw Crouse, a former speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and now political commentator for the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, is not happy with the latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, issued by the State D...   read more

Most recently the dean of the engineering school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Subra Suresh has been nominated by President Barack Obama to run the National Science Foundation, which supports fundamental research and education in s...   read more

Teddy B. Taylor, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service holding the rank of Minister Counselor, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu on September 21, 2009.  In a move sure to win hearts and mi...   read more

President Barack Obama continues to drag his feet over signing an international agreement banning the use of land mines, even though more than two-thirds of the Senate is in support of the U.S. becoming a party to the treaty.   Sixty-eight senat...   read more