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

From its manufacture to its mission, the X-37B space plane is shrouded in mystery. Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works group for the U.S. Air Force, the unmanned, robotic spacecraft is currently orbiting the earth on a classified mission as it conduct...   read more

Wealth inequality between white and black Americans has continued to widen since the 1980s. The Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University examined economic data gathered from a group of 2,000 families from 1984-2007 and conclude...   read more

An airport security program designed to detect terrorists allowed more than a dozen suspects to board U.S. flights. An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the Transportation Security Administration’s Screening Passenge...   read more

BP’s ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico could be spewing nearly 20 times more petroleum into the ocean than the company—with the Obama administration’s complicity—has claimed. Since the April 20 accident that caused the Deepwate...   read more

Seeking to limit the federal government’s application of the Endangered Species Act, the National Association of Home Builders has filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior. The developers group contends that the Interior Department ...   read more

Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) wanted so badly to expand the border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, he attached his proposal to an effort opening up a secretive procedure in the Senate—and in the process killed it.   “Secret ...   read more

Called the “ultimate smoke-filled back room,” the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is not the innocuous political body it appears to be. A professional organization that counts thousands of state legislators as its members, ALEC has be...   read more

To find out how much damage the Deepwater Horizon accident has caused the environment, experts are collecting water samples from the Gulf of Mexico for testing. But the federal government is requiring these samples be tested at one laboratory (TD...   read more

No stranger to controversy, Dennis Blair wracked up plenty of trouble that ultimately cost him his post as director of national intelligence after only 16 months on the job.   Blair arrived as someone known to raise eyebrows. The former U.S. Nav...   read more

Constituents of U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) shouldn’t expect him to understand their frustration over ATM-related fees. Nelson has never used an automated teller machine. Ever.   “I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees ar...   read more

A federally unregulated industrial chemical considered by consumer advocates to be dangerous to human health has been found in 90% of canned foods sold in the United States. A study by the National Work Group for Safe Markets randomly examined 50 ...   read more

As heroics go, what First Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing did for the Union army during the Civil War was nothing short of pivotal. In charge of a battery in the 4th U.S. Artillery, Cushing found himself commanding about 110 men who had to guard Cemeter...   read more

Scientists fear the Obama administration either doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know how much damage the Deepwater Horizon accident has caused the Gulf of Mexico. Experts are growing increasingly frustrated with how little scientific information h...   read more

Large manufacturing companies that issue loans, like General Electric, are seeking exemptions from a new federal law regulating the financial industry, even though these businesses issue billions in loans and other financing.   With the help of ...   read more

Despite fighting in the same wars, troops from the United Kingdom have suffered far fewer cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than their counterparts in the United States. A British study has determined that about 4% of soldiers returni...   read more

When Norway leases its offshore territory to oil companies, the government receives more than 75% of the revenues. The United States, however, takes in less than 20%, making coastal petroleum opportunities a fantastic bargain for the industry. ...   read more