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

They’re back, and they're as smelly as ever. The portable trailers used in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to house thousands of people who lost their homes—and that were discovered to contain unhealthy levels of formaldehyde—have returned to the Gu...   read more

About 40% of all unemployed workers had been jobless for six months or longer by the end of 2009—the highest rate ever recorded by the federal government going back to 1948. This percentage of long-term unemployed represented 6.1 million Americans...   read more

America’s major daily newspapers were happy to call waterboarding torture last decade if the interrogation technique was used by a country other than the United States. But the newspapers “almost never” referred to the method of simulated drowning...   read more

It has been nearly four decades since a soldier performed actions that the Department of Defense deemed worthy of being awarded the Medal of Honor, while still alive. But that could change soon if the White House goes along with the Pentagon’s rec...   read more

More than 1,800 veterans were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center thanks to poorly sanitized dental equipment. The exposure, which VA officials insisted was “low risk,” took place over a year b...   read more

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP), does not think much of the way the Department of the Treasury has stayed on top of financial institutions that were bailed out by the government during the f...   read more

The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are not following the government’s own forest plan for the Uinta National Forest in north-central Utah, according to three conservation groups that have filed an injunction to stop the re-leasi...   read more

Lawyers for Pfizer were unsuccessful this week in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant over its testing of a drug that killed 11 children in Nigeria and left many others disabled.   The high cour...   read more

Fraudulent birth certificates have become such a problem in Puerto Rico that government officials have taken the drastic step of invalidating all such documents issued before July 1 of this year. The 4 million residents of the island, plus the 1.2...   read more

Four individuals are suing the Florida Department of State over the choice of language in a ballot summary for the November election. At issue is the description of Amendment 9, which was put on the ballot by state lawmakers unhappy with the feder...   read more

In what could become the first step towards allowing genetically-engineered animals into the American diet, the Food and Drug Administration is debating whether to approve a new breed of salmon that can grow twice as fast as natural salmon.   Aq...   read more

Military officials have ambitious plans for conducting psychological operations (PSYOP) against America’s enemies, at a cost of about $1 billion. But the Department of Defense is not sufficiently staffed to implement all of its PSYOP goals, so it’...   read more

Afghanistan’s military and police still have a long way to go before they can operate without the assistance of the United States, which has overestimated the capabilities of the country’s security forces, according to an independent investigation...   read more

Vatican officials were displeased by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lawsuit to proceed in district court that seeks to prove the Catholic Church’s senior hierarchy was partly responsible for allowing American priests to molest young ...   read more

Local governments missed out on spending nearly $120 million in Federal Transit Administration earmarks that were available until September 2009, when the country was still steeped in recession. The $119.2 million, approved by Congress under SAFET...   read more

Top officials in the Afghanistan government are helping funnel billions of dollars out of the country, say U.S. investigators. Members of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration sent to Afghanistan estimate ...   read more