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

Four years ago the IRS created a special kind of agent to handle complicated collections cases. But these senior revenue officers are often not given any work assignments, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The IG’...   read more

Paying Uncle Sam on April 15 will not be a concern this year for nearly half of all Americans. The Tax Policy Center estimates 47% will not have to pay federal income taxes for 2009, due to low incomes or various tax breaks enacted in recent years...   read more

Labeled the first “high-value” detainee by the Bush administration, Abu Zubaydah was described as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations and top recruiter” and “a senior terrorist leader and a trusted associate of Osama bin Laden” who supposedly was goin...   read more

Congress has provided relief to millions of Medicare recipients struggling to pay for their prescription drugs, but the help won’t fully kick in for almost a decade.   The so-called “doughnut hole” refers to drug costs that are more than $2,830 ...   read more

The toxic cloud that enveloped the World Trade Center site following the September 11, 2001, attacks caused thousands of firefighters and medical workers to suffer long-term lung damage, according to a new study published in the New England Journa...   read more

Three employees of defense contractor Northrop Grumman are suing Chiquita Brands International for supporting a terrorist group in Colombia that held them hostage for five years. Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes were conducting a ci...   read more

Thanks to obsessive record-keeping by generations of British flower lovers, biologists have determined that plants in the United Kingdom are blooming earlier than at any time in the last 250 years. These researchers also have noticed a change in t...   read more

Nearly a quarter of all Americans unemployed have been without a job for a year or longer, according to a new study by the Pew Economic Policy Group, which noted the rate was the highest since World War II. In its report (A Year or More: The High ...   read more

Anwar al-Aulaqi, a U.S.-born and educated citizen now residing in Yemen, has become the first American to be placed on a CIA assassination list targeting suspected terrorists. Al-Aulaqi surfaced as a controversial figure after it was learned that ...   read more

People with disabilities seeking help from the Social Security Administration can wait twice as long than others depending on where they live in the United States. A review of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) hearings by the company A...   read more

The Federal Communications Commission now must look to Congress if it wants to regulate the Internet and how companies limit customers’ access to the Web. In a 3-0 decision handed down by a Washington appellate court, Comcast won its case against ...   read more

Only five days before the worst mining accident in more than 25 years, the federal government’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) was faulted for not doing a better job of training inspectors. An investigation by the U.S. Department of ...   read more

The ongoing trade deficit between the United States and China have cost American labor 2.4 million jobs since 2001, according to a new study released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The report also revealed that the high-tech industry has ...   read more

Having been banned by the federal government from partnering with payday lenders, some large national banks are now directly making these kinds of high-interest loans to consumers—and avoiding restrictions that limit how much they can charge.   ...   read more

A U.S. military video released by a watchdog group raises questions about the official accounts of why an American helicopter opened fire on a group of Iraqis on July 19, 2007, killing 12, including two journalists working for Reuters.   WikiLea...   read more

News of the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to end Saturday mail delivery could mean trouble for Netflix. The mail-based DVD rental company has been doing better than ever, posting a $115 million profit in 2009 and boasting a subscriber base of 12....   read more