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

Corruption is a way of life in Afghanistan, and Afghans are not happy about it. A survey conducted by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime found that more than half of the population had to pay bribes to a public official last year, and ne...   read more

Beginning a year ago, CrossRoads United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, began feeding the homeless on Saturdays as part of a new outreach program. Local officials complained about CrossRoads’ efforts, saying the Prodigal’s Home program viola...   read more

Critics of American foreign policy towards Haiti have had a hard time swallowing the selection of former President George W. Bush as co-chair of the United States’ relief efforts. They point out that it was during the Bush administration, in Feb...   read more

The FBI continues to keep secret hundreds of thousands of pages of documents stemming from the Civil Rights Era, including information related to the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Records not released include details about a Ku ...   read more

Iran, selected to host the 2nd Annual Islamic Solidarity Games, insisted that maps promoting the sporting event show the Persian Gulf with that very name. But Arab participants insisted on “Arabian Gulf” for the name of the strategic waterway tha...   read more

President Obama has turned to a veteran civil rights attorney, Jacqueline A. Berrien, to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent agency responsible for eliminating all forms of discrimination in the workplace. Although she...   read more

Mr. Merdle and Mr. Potter would be right at home today confronting the roiling contempt many Americans hold for bankers and financial schemers. More than 150 years ago, Charles Dickens created the character of Mr. Merdle in the serial novel Little...   read more

In an attempt to make operations more efficient, the IRS has turned responsibility for detecting fraudulent tax refund claims over to an office filled with inexperienced employees. A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General of Tax Adm...   read more

Tobacco companies have been secretly meeting with the Department of Justice to convince government lawyers to settle the landmark lawsuit first brought against the industry in the 1990s. According to the Associated Press, lawyers for Philip Morris...   read more

World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian organization, does not hide its employment policy. To work for the billion-dollar charity, except on a temporary basis, one must be a Christian. This religious-based hiring preference has drawn...   read more

If Haitians displaced by the earthquake are willing to try life on a different continent, there is a new home awaiting them in Senegal. President Abdoulaye Wade has offered to give Haitians land in his African nation, after first promising to dona...   read more

For the first time in legislative history, a group of lawmakers in the U.S. have approved a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by adults. By a 4-3 vote, the California Legislature’s Assembly Public Safety Committee approved AB 390, ...   read more

Americans are waiting longer than ever to try matrimony for the first time. Statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau show the medina age of men who have their first wedding is now 28.1 years old, and for women it’s 25.9. In both cases, the ag...   read more

Francis S. Collins brings one of the more eclectic, and highly regarded, profiles to the Obama administration as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A leading figure in the completion of the Human Genome Project, which is consider...   read more

Having had his first pick (Homer Wilkes) back out as Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, President Barack Obama turned to Harris Sherman, Colorado’s longtime natural resources chief. Sherman...   read more

Telling the financial industry it’s time to meet its responsibilities and help cover the cost of the federal bailout, President Barack Obama this week unveiled his tax on big banks to recoup almost $100 billion in costs. The tax would last 10 year...   read more