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

District Attorney Scott Southworth of Juneau County, Wisconsin, does not like the state’s new sex education law and is threatening to charge teachers with contributing to the delinquency of children if they teach students about using condoms and t...   read more

Federal prosecutors are investigating a small jail in Buffalo, New York, where six inmates have committed suicide in the past five years. That total, for the 680-bed Erie County Holding Facility, is considerably out of proportion compared with Ri...   read more

The pending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens means not only the loss of the U.S. Supreme Court’s oldest member, but also its only Protestant. This development has raised the question among legal observers whether President Barack Obama shou...   read more

After waiting more than a year for her confirmation, Dawn Johnsen withdrew her nomination on Friday as head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).In a statement released by the White House, Johnsen blamed Republican oppositi...   read more

In the wake of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia, the United States’ worst mining disaster in four decades, media scrutiny has turned to the federal agency whose mission is to prevent such accidents from happening   The Mine S...   read more

Nearly 300,000 American troops have served three, four or more times in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, while cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have risen dramatically since the wars began. The possible correlation between these two facts ha...   read more

Ken Hayworth, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has come up with an unusual potential form of immortality by preserving the human brain in a computer. Most theories of extending life, such as using experimental supplements or super-sensitive healt...   read more

Development of a nuclear energy program is gaining political support within Iraq, according to a research paper produced for the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Norman Cigar, a U.S. Marine Corps research fellow, writes that “t...   read more

What do Oppenheimer & Co., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Fremont General Corp., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, State Street Corp. and Bank United Corp. all have in common? In addition to being financial institutions, they’ve each been sued f...   read more

Less than 7% of corporate fraud cases are uncovered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), based on an academic study of 216 instances of criminal behavior by companies. The analysis (“Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?”) determin...   read more

It’s not every day that Major John Bini, a U.S. military surgeon, dons body armor before going into the operating room. But he did just that after an Afghan soldier was brought in on March 18 with an unusual head wound—a nearly three-inch unexplod...   read more

Now is the time to revisit the New Deal’s Work Progress Administration (WPA), which was created 75 years ago, writes Mike Elk at Campaign for America’s Future. The WPA provided more than three million jobs for a struggling economy in the 1930s, gi...   read more

Former New Orleans police officer Michael Hunter has pleaded guilty in the ongoing trial of numerous law enforcement personnel accused of the September 2005 unjustified shootings of several residents and a subsequent cover-up. He is the first offi...   read more

President Barack Obama will have to overcome political opposition on the left and the right if he wants to shutter Guantanámo Bay and move its terrorism suspects to the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois. Republicans in Congress, led by Senate ...   read more

Chickens living on factory farms endure suffering described as “staggering,” according to an undercover investigation carried out by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). An HSUS investigator spent two months working inside four differen...   read more

Thanks to a business air-travel trade group, politicians, CEOs and even televangelists have been able to fly around the U.S. and the world without having to make their flight information available to the American public. But after a lengthy legal ...   read more