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

When military officials buried the unidentified remains of a Vietnam War soldier in 1984, they figured it was likely to be the last “unknown soldier” memorial for Arlington National Cemetery, given modern advances in DNA technology. In fact, that...   read more

IRS officials were not prepared for the onslaught of phone calls they received from taxpayers during the 2009 filing season. Even though the agency fielded about 12,000 customer service operators at 24 call centers across the United States and Pue...   read more

To call attention to the threat that global warming poses for his island country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives has ordered his cabinet ministers to prepare to meet underwater and sign an international treaty cutting greenhouse gas e...   read more

Ask any nutritionist and they’ll recommend leafy greens as part of a healthy diet. So then why are these vegetables No. 1 on a list of the riskiest foods approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? In a word: pathogens. As rich in vitamins...   read more

Whether it constitutes a brave political charge, or merely a legislative decoy, the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act was introduced last week in the Senate to take away legal protections granted to telecommunications companies that participated in ...   read more

Health care workers in New York are protesting a mandate from the state government to get vaccinated for the H1NI flu virus. In August, state health officials announced that all medical workers who “could potentially expose patients” must receive ...   read more

What’s a bloke to do when he’s forced to limit his alcoholic consumption to a mere 24 cans of beer—per day—during “The Great Race” of Australia? That’s the situation facing fans of the Bathurst 1000, a three-day automobile race that attracts thous...   read more

Latinos make up more than 13% of the workforce in the United States, but only 8% of all federal civil servants, and only 3.6% of senior leadership. This makes the fastest-growing minority group in the country also the most underrepresented in th...   read more

Pre-paid debit cards are proving to be an expensive way for Americans who don’t have checking accounts to conduct their banking, making them an especially lucrative new business for banks. It is estimated that 80 million consumers, more than 25% o...   read more

Lobbyists in Washington, DC, are ticked off following the quiet announcement by the White House that members of the Third House can no longer serve on government advisory committees. President Barack Obama decided to ban lobbyists from the numerou...   read more

While the Supreme Court may soon decide a case affecting local gun control measures, a large coalition of city mayors is calling on Congress and the federal government to take action to curb illegal weapons sales. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bi...   read more

Although modest in size, the move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to switch 3,200 jobs back into the hands of government employees marks a change in direction from the outsourcing to private contractors in recent years. At DHS more wo...   read more

Prison sentences of less than one year are a waste of government resources and should be abolished, says the Prison Governors’ Association in the United Kingdom. The problem with such short jail terms is that they don’t reform criminals, but they ...   read more

Secrecy watchdogs may soon have reason to celebrate if the Obama administration follows through on a national security plan to limit how long government records can be kept hidden from the public. According to a draft of a new executive order, Pre...   read more

America’s most powerful woman believes even the most powerful financial institutions should be allowed to collapse. Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, reiterated her earlier assertions at an international conference la...   read more

There’s more to good living than just money, according to the United Nations Development Programme. The authors of Human Development Reports seek each year to show which countries are better, or worse, at providing a state of well-being for their ...   read more