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

One third of all women giving birth in the United States are undergoing Caesarean sections as part of delivery, the highest rate ever for the country. The 32% Caesarean rate has alarmed many health experts who question the need for the procedure a...   read more

Elected in response to voter dissatisfaction with his predecessor, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today finds himself with the worst popularity rating in California gubernatorial history. The latest Field Poll pegged Schwarzenegger’s ap...   read more

Tired of China’s strict censorship rules, Google decided to shut down its mainland search engine (Google.cn) and redirect Chinese users to its Hong Kong-based web portal. But the move did not result in greater Internet freedom for Chinese Web surf...   read more

With the establishment of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) in 2007, the U.S. government decided to make security a key foreign policy objective for a continent that has long been plagued by civil war and other conflicts. But AFRICOM has ...   read more

Military commanders have instructed soldiers in parts of Iraq and Afghanistan to take off their body armor when meeting with local civilians so they come across as less threatening. But the tactic has left American personnel vulnerable to attacks,...   read more

Jesus Christ and his disciples are eating better these days. A review of historical depictions of the famous Last Supper shows considerable increase in the amount of food presented to Jesus and his dinner guests, according to a research team from ...   read more

Bad economic times did not lead to a rise in bank robberies during 2009, according to the FBI. The bureau’s latest statistics reveal there were 5,943 robberies, 100 burglaries, 19 larcenies, and three extortions of banks last year, for a total of ...   read more

Police, firefighters and other rescuers who worked at Ground Zero following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, deserve a better settlement than was negotiated on their behalf, says U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. ...   read more

In an attempt to stop hemorrhaging money, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wants to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. But first Postmaster General John Potter must win the support of the USPS board of directors, the Postal Regulatory Commission and ...   read more

The U.S. Navy Veterans Association, a national non-profit that claims to be dedicated to helping naval veterans, has come under suspicion as a result of a six-month investigation by the St. Petersburg Times. Unable to get answers from the organiza...   read more

In preparation for the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Chinese government has issued a harsh set of restrictions to China’s media. According to The New York Times, t...   read more

With fewer and fewer Americans willing to identify themselves as members of the Republican Party, it’s time to change the name, argues conservative Myra Adams. Instead of the Republican Party or the GOP, the political party should reflect its phil...   read more

Ruth Y. Goldway has the distinction of being the longest-serving presidential appointee currently in Washington. She was first appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998 to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s predecessor (the Postal Rate Commissio...   read more

More than 500 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have reported illnesses that they blame on the open-pit burning of toxic waste by the military and defense contractors. The numbers were compiled by Disabled American Veterans, a nationa...   read more

Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner is scheduled to be executed on March 24 in Texas for the New Year’s Eve 1993 murders of his girlfriend and her two grown sons. But Northwestern University Journalism School’s Medill Innocence Project contends there are...   read more

Calling the current state of the housing industry a “construction depression,” the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has released another sobering set of statistics showing how bad things are for the economy. Construction, one of th...   read more