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

The reason why Anthem Blue Cross of California wanted to hike its insurance rates by 39% was because the insurer says it suffered a loss of business last year, and was further hampered by the bad economy. Not so. According to a congressional revie...   read more

Handguns, rifles, shotguns, even semi-automatic weapons will be allowed in national parks as of February 22, as long as visitors are compliant with state law and other rules. The change has sparked concerns among current and former employees of th...   read more

Customers of Bank of America are claiming the bank charges $8.99 a month for identity-theft protection and credit monitoring without authorization. Lead plaintiff Steven Chavez says in his class action lawsuit that BofA hit him with monthly costs ...   read more

Corporations wondering how to take advantage of their newfound power following the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court can turn to K&L Gates, one of Washington, DC’s biggest lobbying firms. In the wake of the high court’s decision to ...   read more

Researchers in France may have discovered a potential new source of energy from plants. By inserting a specially designed biofuel cell into a cactus, experts at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal were able to power the cell from the glucose and o...   read more

Americans on Medicaid are caught between the federal government, which wants to add 15 million more people to the medical insurance program, and state governments that can’t afford coverage for existing patients. With budget deficits ballooning, s...   read more

Utah State Senator Mark Madsen (R) doesn’t see anything wrong with his idea to honor John Browning, a pioneer in firearms manufacturing, on the same day celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., who was gunned down by an assassin. Madsen and his support...   read more

Taking the secure out of security, federal officers working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lost 289 firearms over a three-year period. An investigation by DHS’ inspector general found that 243 of those firearms were lost by two agen...   read more

Germans really like their peace and quiet. In a country with an official quiet time at night and all day on Sundays, noisy children have been the source of hundreds of complaints each year from people living near kindergartens and children’s playg...   read more

Leaving education in the hands of the government has resulted in rising costs and flat-lining tests scores, notes Fox News television correspondent John Stossel, who wants to give parents the choice of sending their kids to private schools.   He...   read more

School officials in Pennsylvania are being sued by parents for spying on their children through the use of laptops equipped with webcams. The Lower Merion School District issued the computers to 1,800 high school students so they would have “24/7 ...   read more

In an ominous sign for the upcoming census, the federal government last year wasted millions of dollars training temporary employees who never did any work for the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency in charge of carrying out the nation’s decennial hea...   read more

In an effort to reduce unnecessary exposure to radiation, the Food and Drug Administration is developing new guidelines for the medical industry to follow for certain kinds of tests. The rules will govern the use of three types of medical imaging ...   read more

The creators of PleaseRobMe.com really aren’t out to steal from people, they insist. Rather, they want to educate people about the dangers of posting too much information on social networking sites before they become victims of unscrupulous types....   read more

Americans are becoming more comfortable with the idea of non-heterosexuals serving openly in the military—you just have to watch your language. A new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News found that 58% of respondents favor a plan to p...   read more

Another census, another debate about illegal immigrants. Every 10 years the federal government counts how many people are living in the United States, including those who entered the country illegally. But advocates for a government crackdown on...   read more