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

Foreign buyers are itching for the opportunity to buy American-made pilotless reconnaissance aircraft, and the Department of Defense does not plan to get in the way, despite concerns that the military technology could fall into the wrong hands.  ...   read more

To say hedge fund managers have it better off than corporate CEOs is like saying billionaires have really got it over multi-millionaires.   New data released shows times are still pretty good for many corporate executives, even though compensati...   read more

Republican Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas is blaming President Barack Obama for having to spend more taxpayer dollars on his congressional office. Tiahrt claims the 11% increase in spending is due to the fact that his office has been getting...   read more

Dieter Krombach of Germany is awaiting trial in France for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. What makes Krombach’s case unusual was how he came to be in the custody of French law enforcement.   Following the death of Kalinka Bamberski i...   read more

Hookers do have a heart of gold in Nevada, where their trade group has agreed to pay higher licensing fees to stave off budget cuts for veterans services. Lean revenues in Nye County had commissioners considering layoffs of two civil servants in t...   read more

President George W. Bush exceeded his legal authority when he instructed the National Security Agency to spy on suspected terrorists in the United States without obtaining warrants from a special federal court, according to a court ruling on Wedne...   read more

Fourteen states intend to fight the recently passed federal healthcare reform legislation in court, but in Georgia and Nevada the Democratic attorneys general are refusing to cooperate with their Republican governors’ requests to join the cause. ...   read more

With the deadline for mailing in forms having arrived, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the national response rate is down considerably from the 2000 headcount. Whereas 72% of household mailed back their census forms 10 years ago, only 54% had...   read more

The fewest number of Americans died on the nation’s roadways in 2009 since 1954, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Figures compiled by the agency show 33,963 people lost their lives last year in motor vehicle traffic...   read more

Ali Hussain Sibat, a Lebanese television host who occasionally offered predictions on his show, was scheduled to be executed in Saudi Arabia on April 2 for acts of “sorcery,” But his lawyer, May el-Khansa, has been told by a Lebanese government of...   read more

After reviewing 58 sex scandals over the past two decades involving politicians or major candidates for federal, state and local office, The Daily Beast has determined that Republicans have had more embarrassing escapades than Democrats. But what ...   read more

Supporters of the Second Amendment and the right to own guns are planning a national march on Washington, DC, scheduled for April 19. The date was chosen because it is the 235th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. However, April 1...   read more

More than two months before it became legal to accept unlimited contributions to federal independent expenditure committees, the abortion-rights advocacy group EMILY’s List reported a $175,700 donation to its 527 committee involved in the U.S. Se...   read more

Modern telecommunications and social networking websites may be contributing to the problem of global warming, claims Greenpeace.   For popular creations like Facebook or Apple’s new iPad to work, companies must rely on large data centers that h...   read more

School districts across America may now have to be more vigilant about student bullying and harassment in the wake of a landmark court case in Michigan. Hudson Area Schools has been ordered to pay a former student $800,000 for ignoring Dane Patter...   read more

After concealing highly-secretive investigations for more than 60 years, the FBI has released a small volume of documents from its little known “special file room” in Washington, DC. The room, created by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was fi...   read more