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

Prior to spending the past 15 years running the University of Oklahoma, Democrat David Boren served in the U.S. Senate, where he had the distinction of being the longest-serving chairman of the Senate’s committee on intelligence matters. This fact...   read more

Appointed co-chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, Charles Timothy “Chuck” Hagel is best known as a maverick Republican senator from Nebraska who did not shy away from publicly criticizing President George W. Bush’s handling of the...   read more

As the Assistant Secretary of Vocational and Adult Education in the U.S. Department of Education, Brenda Dann-Messier brings an extensive background in the field of adult education to her new job of overseeing community colleges, adult education a...   read more

Charles A. Ray has put in almost five decades of service during his career as both a soldier and diplomat, giving the new U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe an intriguing political and military skill-set to handle American relations with one of Africa’s ...   read more

President Obama has turned to a strong supporter with lengthy experience in pipeline law and regulation to serve as the new Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), which is responsible for protecting th...   read more

With his first year coming to a close, President Barack Obama finds himself with an impressive score of 75-9…when it comes to promises kept vs. promises broken. The scorecard has been compiled by PolitiFact, a project of the St. Petersburg Times t...   read more

As the first decade of the 21st century winds to a close, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker has remarked that there are at least 10 major lingering questions from the “war on terror” that so far have gone unanswered.   Here are short summaries of May...   read more

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s imprint on the health care reform plan extends well beyond the work of the senator himself. The Democrat from Nevada is among the leaders of those lawmakers with the most former staffers who have gone on to lobb...   read more

India and Venezuela are not happy about their famous locales where it’s all about the water. In India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, locals are concerned about the dwindling rainfall in Cherrapunjee, one of the world’s rainiest places. Instead...   read more

If state governments are interested in revising their prison systems, not just to save money but also to return convicts to society and keep them there, then Michigan should be a model to follow, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (AC...   read more

Imagine the Taliban arrived in Connecticut, ready to attack the surrounding Northeast, and the government sent only a few hundred troops to patrol the state’s borders to keep the enemy at bay. That is comparable to what a small detachment of U.S. ...   read more

Getting arrested in the United States on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant can result in “disappearing” into a clandestine maze of detention centers run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service. An investigation by Amnesty In...   read more

An examination of online browsing habits by teens and children has revealed some disturbing results. Among children 7-years-old and younger, the top three most popular websites were YouTube, Google and Facebook. So far, so good. But then, at No. 4...   read more

The census taken every 10 years by the U.S. government is much more than just an exercise in counting heads. It is responsible for either spending or distributing billions of dollars throughout the country and into the economy, something a recessi...   read more

Television coverage of federal court proceedings is a rare occurrence, but next month the sprawling Ninth Circuit will begin experimenting with cameras in courtrooms. The nation’s largest appellate court—which covers Alaska, Arizona, California, H...   read more

Banks are making profits off those collecting unemployment benefits. Here’s how: instead of printing unemployment checks, states are increasingly contracting with big banks (Citibank, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America) to issue jobl...   read more