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

While the media focuses on the number “30,000” (as in the number of new troops being sent to Afghanistan), an even larger number has widely been ignored: 100,000. This figure represents approximately the number of contractors working in the countr...   read more

In an attempt to limit the political fallout from the Salahi controversy, the White House refused to send President Barack Obama’s social secretary to Capitol Hill to testify before a congressional committee. Administration officials announced on ...   read more

In a rare turnabout on law-and-order issues it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are being labeled as soft on crime—and in fact accused of being supportive of rapists—as a result of an amendment authored by U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN). The leg...   read more

Destruction of the CIA tapes revealing the torture of detainees came immediately after news accounts reported the existence of secret prisons overseas, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says CIA cables...   read more

The United States system for detaining illegal immigrants is a mess, filled with examples of unlawful arrests of citizens and legal residents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to multiple investigations from governme...   read more

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will offer e-readers in 2010 to its primary school students as it plans to further digitalize education and promote reading. The e-readers are essential components of Taiwan’s five-year $1.55 billion dollar program d...   read more

Since the end of the Cold War, a small group of American arms control inspectors has been stationed in Votkinsk, Russia, to verify how many new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are produced by the United States’ former adversary. But as...   read more

Insurance company Aetna thinks it’s better off by scaring away customers. Company officials plan to hike premiums next year to reverse the downward trend of Aetna’s profit margin, which fell from 11.1% in 2007 to 6.9% in the third quarter of 2009....   read more

DuPont has known since 1984 that its chemical plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was polluting local water supplies in nearby Washington County, Ohio, but did not tell local residents or do anything to correct the problem, according to environme...   read more

Surfing the Internet can sometimes feel like playing Russian roulette when visiting websites for the first time, because of the growing risk of encountering viruses or other malware with a simple click of a mouse. One way to minimize this risk is ...   read more

Participating in secret military operations has meant falling into a bureaucratic void for some American service members unable to draw on veterans benefits. For about 50 members of the 707th Airlift Squadron, which flew some of the first missions...   read more

If the United States is going to send another 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, which means billions of dollars more in costs, then the government should have the ability to pay for it, instead of just borrowing more money or robbing other programs ...   read more

“Derivatives” is just another word for gambling, as far as U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is concerned, so she wants anti-gambling laws applied to Wall Street in an effort to end the era of “casino capitalism.” In the wake of last year’s finan...   read more

Two of the nation’s most respected newspapers have expressed through their editorial pages a diametrical position from that of the general public on the Afghanistan war, according to an analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). A majo...   read more

Mike McTimoney has the distinction of becoming the first Tweeter-in-residence in the United Kingdom, following his hiring by the town of Darlington in County Durham in the northeast of England. McTimoney, an IT lecturer at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Fo...   read more

School officials in Addyston, Ohio, are suing a foreign-owned plastics company over cancer-causing air pollution from a local factory that forced the closure of an elementary school four years ago. Meredith Hitchens Elementary was shuttered in 200...   read more