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

Described as a change long overdue by gay rights activists, hospitals will soon have to allow visitation rights to homosexual partners, under orders from President Barack Obama. The new rule will be enforced through the federal government’s Medica...   read more

The boom times for military contractors may be coming to an end if the Obama administration follows through on plans to cut back on outsourcing defense jobs to the private sector. During the previous decade, the Department of Defense, under Presid...   read more

Wanting to prove its weapons are safe to use, even on subjects who have ingested methamphetamine, Taser International sponsored a research study that drugged more than two dozen sheep and subjected them to the electric-shock weapon. The company fe...   read more

Conservative attorney and author Ken Connor is not willing to go along with reforms to the legal system that big business and many on the right have been advocating. Using the recent mining disaster in West Virginia as an example, Connor points ou...   read more

A lot of Americans on both the left and the right have been wondering if the bankers and Wall Street investors who caused the economic collapse that began in 2008 would ever have to pay the price for what they did to the country. Goldman Sachs emp...   read more

Taking a husband’s name comes at a price for married women. Dutch researchers have determined wives who change their name can wind up making less money—$1,162 a month—because of cultural perceptions in comparison to women who keep their pre-marria...   read more

What once required hundreds of sailors may soon need only dozens as the U.S. Navy moves to a new fleet of high-tech, innovative coastal vessels known as littoral ships. Naval commanders are deciding between two different designs of littorals—one b...   read more

Despite losing two court decisions, banks have decided to continue the fight against the media publishing the names of institutions bailed out by the Federal Reserve during the worst of the financial crisis in 2008.   The Clearing House Payment ...   read more

Regardless of the rhetorical attacks Republicans have lobbed at him for being soft on terrorism, President Barack Obama is continuing much of his predecessor’s policies and strategies for the war on terror, argues Eli Lake at Reason.com.   Sure,...   read more

Not known for its public displays of new weaponry, Israel’s military sent a message to Iran recently by unveiling its latest “breakthrough” in unmanned aircraft, the Heron TP, nicknamed Eitan, which is Hebrew for “strong.”   The Eitan is the wor...   read more

A huge scandal involving allegations of game rigging and bribery has erupted in South Korea, where online video entertainment attracts serious, big-money players. South Korea has professional leagues associated with 21 different video games, but t...   read more

First, it was radio music. Now, it is school bells that have been outlawed in Somalia, under orders from al-Shabab, the country’s most powerful Islamist insurgent group. Al-Shabab ordered teachers in the town of Jowhar, north of the capital city o...   read more

The United States has more than two million phantoms voters, thanks to the way the U.S. Census Bureau counts prisoners. During the 2010 census, federal officials will record inmates as residents of the towns where their prisons are located, and th...   read more

Accounting errors by the IRS over a five-year period cost the federal government $63 million in unemployment insurance funds, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The foul-up began after an audit ...   read more

Consuming beef in the United States comes with the risk of ingesting toxins because of cracks in the federal government’s meat inspection system. In a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the inspector general said there is a “growi...   read more

Within three years, children born in the United Kingdom could have three biological parents, assuming the government goes along with an idea pushed by scientists to perform gene splicing to prevent serious health risks.   The concept has been de...   read more