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

Officials in India want no part of an old U.S. maritime ship headed for the world’s largest scrap yard because it has been deemed too contaminated. The Platinum-II was supposed to dock at the Alang shipyard where thousands of vessels from around t...   read more

Some European leaders are voicing support for a new tax on banks that get involved in the high-stakes trading of derivatives as a way for governments to cover such bets in the event of future bailouts. But the United States and Russia are reacting...   read more

When the United Nations’ General Assembly voted last Friday on an important war crimes report, the absence of U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice was noticeable. Diplomats and UN observers speculated why Rice was missing from a decision on the Goldstone Re...   read more

If the collapse of the U.S. auto industry has turned Detroit into what some say is an “urban prairie,” then why not do with this vacant land what settlers once did with the original American prairie: farm it. Some agricultural pioneers have alread...   read more

Solar power ventures are heating up in Japan and Europe where initiatives seek to harness the power of the sun from space and in the Sahara desert. Officials with Japan’s space agency believe they can collect solar power from earth’s orbit and bea...   read more

The free lunch in Cuba is coming to an end, literally and figuratively. Following the decision in September to end nearly free meals at state cafeterias, the government of Raúl Castro has decided to remove two food staples, potatoes and peas, from...   read more

Almost lost amid the public fanfare over the House of Representatives approving the health care reform bill was a huge compromise House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made on the issue of abortion. Pelosi, a staunch supporter of abortion rights, risked losi...   read more

Florida’s justice system is the toughest in the world when it comes to punishing juveniles who have committed violent crimes but stopped short of killing someone. Of the 109 juvenile prisoners worldwide serving life in prison without possibility o...   read more

A Virginia-based power company has been accused of causing birth defects and other health problems in the Dominican Republic after thousands of tons of coal ash were dumped on a local beach. AES Corporation, operator of coal-burning power plants i...   read more

On top of the $3.2 billion lost earlier this month when CIT filed for bankruptcy, the federal government’s bank rescue effort is now out of another $1.7 billion because of the collapse of United Commercial Bank. The San Francisco-based bank has th...   read more

At a time of media conglomeration, an effort is underway in the House of Representatives to expand the number of small, local radio stations on the FM dial. The Local Community Radio Act is designed to pick up where the Federal Communications Comm...   read more

Paul Anastas, a Yale chemist and so-called father of green chemistry, is being prevented from taking over the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development because of opposition from Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who has been...   read more

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has decided to partner with Coca Cola to “educate consumers” about the role products, such as soft drinks, can play in “a healthy, active” life. The AAFP, which represents more than 90,000 doctors a...   read more

Men’s desire to dominate their technology does not include simply reading the instructions first. A survey conducted by the Gadget Helpline in the United Kingdom found 64% of its male callers didn’t bother to check the manual before phoning for as...   read more

Nine years after beginning its investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor won a federal jury ruling against Tyson Foods for cheating 3,000 current and former employees out of wages owed to them. But the fine levied on the one of the nation’s larg...   read more

Indoor pollution is increasingly becoming as much a concern as the outdoor kind, thanks to a host of chemicals used in building materials, clothing and appliances. But researchers have discovered ordinary house plants can help neutralize indoor po...   read more