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

Unlike the state of Arizona, which is trying to crackdown on illegal immigration by requiring anyone stopped by police to show proof of legal status, some cities on the East and West Coast are dispensing IDs to help undocumented individuals become...   read more

The federal government approved BP’s use of chemicals to break up the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill despite concerns from scientists and public officials in Louisiana.   When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) discussed the ch...   read more

Republicans and Democrats in the House united last week, voting 292-126 to freeze government spending on scientific research, even though such expenditures can help lead to innovations and economic opportunities for tomorrow’s economy.   The bip...   read more

More than 100,000 Americans who entered into a home mortgage modification program created by the Obama administration have found themselves kicked out of the relief effort, making their lives worse than if they had never bothered to get involved i...   read more

Political expression through poetry has prompted violent reactions by authorities from Iraq to Rhode Island.   In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Zardasht Osman, a student and freelance journalist, was found shot to death shortly after publ...   read more

A couple in Japan became the first to be married by a robot, according to manufacturer Kokoro Co. “I-Fairy,” four feet tall and with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails, performed the wedding ceremony for Tomohiro Shibata, 42, and Satoko Inoue, 36,...   read more

Two shareholders of Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, are suing the company and claiming executives defrauded investors by concealing its history of failed equipment designed to prevent the...   read more

In an attempt to improve medical care at its hospitals, the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a rating system that consequently has caused some VA facilities to be banned from performing elective surgeries. The “surgery complexity initi...   read more

Defense attorneys for Omar Khadr, the so-called “child soldier” of Guantánamo, have argued at their client’s military tribunal that some of the testimony being used against him by the U.S. was coerced. The tainted testimony was obtained soon after...   read more

Big age differences between husbands and wives are great for men’s longevity, but not for women’s. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, found women are better off marrying spouses of the same age, b...   read more

Cars today are as much products of computer electronics as they are automotive engineering. Because they contain and rely upon so much high-tech circuitry, cars are increasingly becoming vulnerable to computer hackers who may be able to manipulate...   read more

Under the Bush and Obama administrations, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) has granted permits to BP and other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico despite environmental concerns raised by another federal agency that endangered specie...   read more

Forty years and $1 trillion later, the United States is at a crossroads in its war on drugs. Many critics have long complained that treating the drug problem first and foremost as a law enforcement issue has been a mistake, and the Obama administr...   read more

Iraq is no longer the most costly foreign policy priority of the United States. Thanks to the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and the continued build-up of forces in Afghanistan, the latter is now costing $6.7 billion a month, compared to $5.5 bil...   read more

Ravil Mingazov, ballet dancer and former member of Russia’s army, has spent the past eight years behind bars at Guantánamo Bay. But he may soon be freed, following a ruling by a U.S. court judge who found the government had no grounds to keep him ...   read more

Bad singing is never pleasant to the ears, and when it involves the daily call to prayer in the Muslim world, it’s all that more tough to stomach. That’s why religious authorities in Turkey are now requiring some of Istanbul’s muezzins and imams t...   read more