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 U.S. Army’s top training expert is recommending changes to his service’s program for preparing soldiers for combat. Gone are the days of America fighting a large-scale enemy, like the Russians. Now the United States is more likely to be involv...   read more

If you can’t beat them, pay them off. That’s essentially the reasoning behind a plan the United States and some of its allies are considering that would pay Taliban fighters to put down their weapons and rejoin Afghan society. The cost of such a s...   read more

Perhaps it didn’t come as a surprise to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that a company whose name spelled the acronym RACE would have racially discriminated while handing out dangerous jobs involving radioactive materials. Radi...   read more

Film directors aren’t the only ones who insist on final cut. From his prison cell, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, is suing a French film company making a documentary about the terrorist who was the most famous of his kind back in...   read more

Congress often is loath to make tough fiscal decisions that may spur anger from constituents, which is why a plan was devised to create a special bipartisan commission that would craft a solution to reduce the nation’s ballooning deficit. But when...   read more

Some voices on the left are calling for President Barack Obama to borrow from FDR’s legacy and reestablish the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to lower unemployment and help the environment. The CCC was revolutionary for its time when...   read more

Special prosecutor Neil Barofsky, charged by the Department of the Treasury with investigating the federal government’s bailout of Wall Street in 2008, is now turning his attention to the rescue of AIG by the New York branch of the Federal Reserve...   read more

Frontier Foundation, established seven years ago by Congressman Steve Buyer (R-Indiana) to award scholarships, has yet to help any students, but it has financed Buyer’s golf game. Buyer’s foundation has collected more than $800,000, while not givi...   read more

Seeking a way to help alleviate his state’s chronic budget shortfall and prison overcrowding, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested on Monday sending illegal immigrant prisoners to Mexico to save money. The Republican governor appare...   read more

American society has become more rigid than Canada’s when it comes to advancing economically. While Americans have long believed in the notion that they can rise up from poor to rich, a report by the Pew Economic Mobility Project says it’s gotten ...   read more

Being compared to Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t go over well with Heartland Inns of America. The hotel chain fired clerk Brenna Lewis because she was considered too masculine looking and lacked “the Midwestern girl look.” Lewis sued her former employer,...   read more

The death of British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly in July 2003 was sufficient to raise questions, coming only days after it was revealed he had challenged one of the major claims for invading Iraq four months earlier. Now, the fact that details ...   read more

If the various pieces of the healthcare reform legislation in Congress are taken apart and considered separately, Americans are in favor of most everything. But when they are asked about the complete package, reactions seem to range from disappoin...   read more

FBI agents relied on everything from requests written on post-it notes to chummy relationships with phone company workers to illegally access phone records from 2003-2006, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general. An investi...   read more

In order to protect the earth from devastating collisions with objects from outer space, scientists must first know what’s out there—which may take longer than anticipated unless the federal government appropriates more money. This finding is one ...   read more

British television is set to make history on January 27 when it airs the first movie filmed entirely by chimpanzees. The film is the product of an 18-month research project by primatologist Betsy Herrelko, who filmed her 11 subjects through “Chimp...   read more