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

In a ruling that has enormous implications for the biotechnology industry, a district court judge in New York threw out the patents on human genes relating to breast and ovarian cancers. Judge Robert Sweet invalidated the patents held by Myriad Ge...   read more

Lost amid the last-minute lobbying and sheer size of the healthcare reform legislation was a provision approved by Congress granting $250 million over five years for states to fund abstinence programs. Supporters of such programs have had trouble ...   read more

Contrary to its public policies that promise to focus on dangerous criminals, top officials in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service are requiring ICE agents to meet a quota of 400,000 arrests this year, indicating the agency inte...   read more

Both the State Department and its defense contractor have been faulted for problems related to the security of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Guards hired to protect the embassy were found living in crowded, unsafe conditions at Camp Olympia, ...   read more

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have been accused of ignoring warnings about the overuse of CT scans to check for colon cancer. Government experts have waited for a year for the FDA to respond to concerns presented to the agency, bu...   read more

Lawmakers in Congress are beginning to grow concerned over the amount of cash being distributed by American military commanders in war zones. Provided so the military can make friends with local citizens and help struggling economies, the amount o...   read more

Islam Siddiqui’s recess appointment as chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has sparked considerable opposition from environmentalists and organic farmers. Siddiqui served as vice president for science and r...   read more

Ships entering the waters of Canada and the United States soon will have to use cleaner-burning fuel for their engines in order to cut down on the air pollution they produce in North America. Pushed by the American and Canadian governments, the In...   read more

By returning to the strategy employed by a conservative icon, President Barack Obama could impose a liberal tax policy, writes Gerald Scorse, a member of the advocacy group, Responsible Wealth.   Scorse argues that Obama could pay for most of th...   read more

Following on the heels of the Citizens United decision that expanded political contributions by corporations and unions, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has decided that the government cannot limit donations to independent political gr...   read more

The Department of the Interior has decided to turn over to Indian tribes and Native Hawaiians the human remains and artifacts currently in possession of museums and natural history collections. Taking effect May 14, the decision includes remains t...   read more

Germany’s government is planning to tax banks in order to discourage risky investment behavior and to create a reserve to fund future bailouts. The proposal comes after the country spent €500 billion ($679 billion) to rescue its financial industry...   read more

A 30-year failure to develop a permanent site for storing nuclear waste has cost the federal government billions of dollars in fines paid to power companies. After putting all of its hopes in the Yucca Mountain repository, Washington now is starti...   read more

After enduring the murders of his children by his wife in February 2007, Bouchaib Moqadem of Belgium is now being asked to pay for the prosecution of his wife, Genevieve Lhermitte. The government spent 72,743 euros ($97,000) to convict Lhermitte o...   read more

The tax news has been all good lately for some of the nation’s leading banks. First, JPMorgan Chase found out it will receive a fat refund from the federal government, and now Bank of America and Wells Fargo won’t have to pay federal income taxes ...   read more

For $5 million the Department of Defense got 43 minutes of work—a month—out of each mechanic hired by defense contractor KBR Inc. to repair vehicles at Joint Base Balad near Baghdad, Iraq. This enormous waste of taxpayer dollars was uncovered by t...   read more