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

It took six years and 10 months, but the United States finally made it through a month in Iraq without an American soldier dying in combat. December 2009 was the first time since the invasion in March 2003 that no U.S. troop succumbed to injuries ...   read more

The year 2009 was an improvement as far as global wars were concerned, according to the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research. The institute’s annual conflict analysis found there were a total of 365 political trouble spots in 2...   read more

The decade closed out with mixed results for police officers killed in the line of duty. The good news for 2009 was a 7% drop from the previous year in law enforcement deaths, with a total of 124 reported. That figured represented the lowest numbe...   read more

Since 2006-2007, when several high-profile accidents captured national attention, mining-related deaths have dropped in each of the last two years, down to the lowest levels ever recorded. Thirty-four miners died on the job last year, and 52 in 20...   read more

Stretching nearly a half mile into the sky, the world’s tallest building will be officially unveiled Monday (January 4) in Dubai, where the sheikdom is trying to pay off mammoth debts incurred in part from just such ambitious real estate ventures....   read more

Legislation intended to reform Wall Street and protect consumers is currently waddling along in the House of Representatives, moving as best a 1,200-page document can. Bloomberg columnist David Reilly decided to read all of HR 4173 (the “Wall Stre...   read more

Demonstrating the financial industry isn’t entirely back on its feet again, GMAC, the finance branch of General Motors, came under the control of the federal government just before New Year’s, as Washington pumped another $3.8 billion into the stu...   read more

Washington’s generosity towards Israel has amounted to $3 billion a year in military aid since 1985, and extends even further back to the mid-20th century. According to a Congressional Research Service report, no other country has received more fo...   read more

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress began to make preparations for meeting remotely in the event of another threat to the nation’s capital. But even without a crisis, would having an e-Congress be so bad, asks Conor Friedersdorf at AOL’s...   read more

Solving the problem of global warming requires discarding the cap-and-trade policy currently popular with public officials and going instead with something called fee-and-dividend, says scientist James Hansen, the director of the NASA Goddard Inst...   read more

According to his own campaign manager, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) lost the 2008 presidential contest because he was on the wrong side of the Wall Street debacle, siding with the pro-business philosophies that helped create the mess. Now, the ...   read more

Sounding like a character from the film Armageddon, Russia’s leading space official, Anatoly Perminov, warned this week that action must be taken to keep an asteroid from striking the earth in 2036. Perminov said “lives are at stake” unless Russi...   read more

Immigrants fleeing torture or persecution no longer will spend indefinite incarceration in American immigration centers, thanks to a change in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration re...   read more

Fear over the spread of germs has brought modern technology to the centuries-old practice of dispensing communion wafers during Catholic services—and resulted in litigation as well. Nu-Life Products, a Minnesota-based company, created a hand-held ...   read more

How many walls does it take to eliminate the light bulb? Just one, as long as it’s glowing.   Lomox, a company based in Wales in the United Kingdom, is developing the first glowing wall that will discard the need for lighting fixtures through th...   read more

Federal law permits businesses to pay employees who are mentally retarded pennies an hour, a reality that has sparked a new debate at care homes in Iowa. An investigation by the Des Moines Register discovered that more than 300 mentally disabled p...   read more