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

Millions of secret government documents are scheduled to be declassified at the end of this year—unless President Barack Obama extends the deadline like his predecessors have done. Reports out of Washington indicate the White House is hurriedly pr...   read more

There’s no denying the importance of coal to the nation’s energy supply, providing nearly half of the electricity used by Americans. But a group of medical researchers has decided to make clear the price that the human body pays for the U.S. relyi...   read more

Alexander Stern of Los Angeles can’t play Sony’s role-playing video games like EverQuest because of his disabilities, so he’s suing the company under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Due to problems with his eyesight and “multiple learning dis...   read more

While the Maldives chose to go down (underwater) to draw attention to the dangers of global warming, Nepal has selected to go up—way up. This week, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will lead his senior ministers up Mount Everest to conduct the hi...   read more

The National Park Service could soon enjoy a new revenue stream thanks to an unlikely source: bacteria. For years now scientists have been “bioprospecting” in national parks, looking for new sources of medicine or scientific capability and coming ...   read more

Confirmed on August 6, 2009, President Obama’s Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a twenty-five year veteran of the agency who was put forward for the position by Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the powerful Senate Majorit...   read more

Heir to the Oreck vacuum-cleaning fortune, Bruce Oreck was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Finland August 12, 2009. His experiences have run the gamut from tax attorney to body building to major player in Democratic Party politics. Having contribut...   read more

While President Barack Obama prepares to announce his decision regarding a troop increase for Afghanistan, Senate Democrats have released a report that argues that the Bush administration failed to capture Osama bin Laden when it had the chance in...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and other health industry companies were responsible for the biggest fraud settlements obtained last year by the Department of Justice. Companies like Cephalon Inc. and Merck & Co. paid more than $1 billion combined fo...   read more

While hoping for a future of cooperation with other nations, the U.S. Navy is simultaneously planning for potential combat situations that may arise once global warming has melted the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice within two decades. A 35-page memo fr...   read more

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars loaned by the federal government to the nation’s largest banks, the financial industry continues to be stingy with loans itself, creating a big drag on economic recovery. Lending fell by 3% ($210.4 billi...   read more

If enduring superstitions, discrimination and a high risk of skin cancer weren’t enough, albinos living in Africa have to worry about being killed for their body parts. Murders of albinos in East Africa have been on the rise since 2007, with 44 ki...   read more

Barry B. White, sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Norway on October 21, 2009, is another of President Barack Obama’s top fundraisers to receive a diplomatic post. A longtime attorney and business fixture in Boston, White has been involved in Massachu...   read more

In a move intended to assuage the Polish government, the United States will send for the first time a small detachment of soldiers next year to Poland to man an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) battery intended to guard against a Russian attack. Offic...   read more

AIG, recipient of $182 billion in taxpayer dollars, is trying to squeeze money out of poor people in rural Kentucky via a local water utility. Prior to the insurance giant’s near collapse last year, which prompted Washington to step in with a hand...   read more

When Americans throw out food, they’re wasting more than just groceries. Research funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that 40% of all food produced in the United States is discarded, and with it goes a lot of wasted resources. On...   read more