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

Are there really only two options to choose from with health care systems—government run vs. free market? No, says Aaron Carroll, associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. An examination of health care systems...   read more

A self-described unlikely civil rights activist, Mikey Weinstein is suing a Texas-based evangelical church with ties to the Department of Defense for praying for his demise. Weinstein, a Jewish Republican and former military lawyer who served unde...   read more

Many experts expected the disparity between rich and poor to have shrunk last year, as income levels for all Americans declined because of the Great Recession. But that didn’t happen, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Although ear...   read more

Photographic evidence has led some Western experts to wonder if Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been using his vitriolic hatred for Israel to cover up his own Jewish roots. A photograph of Ahmadinejad holding up his ID card during the p...   read more

The organic food movement is becoming a victim of its own success. On the one hand, demand for organic products continues to grow, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A new study produced by the USDA’s Economic Resear...   read more

Eating hamburger meat is not unlike playing Russian roulette. Despite a federal regulation adopted in 1994 banning slaughterhouses from selling meat containing a particularly virulent strain of E. coli (O157:H7), hamburger sold by Cargill in 2007 ...   read more

In some areas of the United States, driving down a country road comes with the increased risk of colliding with a deer. According to data collected by auto insurance provider State Farm, the number of auto-deer collisions from 2007-2009 increased ...   read more

Having already denied funds to close down the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, House lawmakers on Thursday adopted an amendment that bans the transfer of detainees to maximum-security prisons in the United States. Republicans managed to pull ...   read more

The Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded to those whose achievements make people laugh first, and think second, were given out recently for what is typically an odd assortment of accomplishments.   Katherine K. Whitcome, Daniel E. Lieberman and Liza J. Shap...   read more

Journalists became incensed this week after the White House changed course on legislation designed to protect reporters from going to jail for protecting confidential sources. Previously, President Barack Obama expressed support for a “media shiel...   read more

For the third year in a row, officials in the Treasury Department have extended an exemption that allows savings and loan employees convicted of financial crimes to hold onto their jobs. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) filed a rule that wen...   read more

One third of all U.S. Attorneys currently in office were appointed by President George W. Bush, demonstrating that President Barack Obama is moving far slower than his predecessor in making over the composition of federal prosecutors. An analysis ...   read more

When the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, called for more troops, the response should have been: Okay, from where?   To put it simply, the U.S. Army is maxed out. An assessment performed by the RAND Arroyo Center, a...   read more

The Obama administration’s efforts to conceal all of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s testimony in the Valerie Plame investigation failed on Thursday, as a federal judge ordered the release of some records. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan fo...   read more

Elizabeth Colton got a late start on her diplomatic career, joining the Foreign Service when she was 54. Now, the former journalist is facing an arbitrary restriction that’s threatening to end her brief Foreign Service career.   Next August, Col...   read more

It took the jury only one day in a precedent-setting case to find two construction companies liable for starting a forest fire in 2002 that burned 18,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The verdict, which calls for CB&...   read more