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

Eighteen years of waiting and wondering officially came to an end when the Department of Defense announced on Sunday that the remains of the Gulf War’s only MIA had been found. U.S. Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher, an F-18 fighter pilot, was s...   read more

If learning is more important to you than earning a university degree, then YouTube EDU might be for you. In March the popular video-sharing website launched a special wing where universities and colleges have uploaded thousands of online courses ...   read more

Having mingled with politicians and celebrities her entire life, Nicole A. Avant made herself into one of the most powerful fundraisers in Los Angeles. And after helping President Barack Obama rake in millions of dollars from Southern California’s...   read more

An assistant surgeon general, Rear Admiral Eric B. Broderick has served as the acting administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration since August 2008, overseeing a staff of more than 500 and a budget of $3.3 billi...   read more

It definitely won’t be an affair to remember for Lieutenant Commander Syneeda Lynn Penland. After the U.S. Navy found out about Penland’s romance with fellow officer Mark Wiggan, who’s married, she was fined, thrown in the brig, and court-martiale...   read more

After angering the liberal wing of her party over compromises made to conservative Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has decided to allow a floor vote later this year on a plan creating a single-payer government-financed health care pro...   read more

War has been very good for DynCorp, a security and logistics contractor that has earned billions from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than half of the company’s $3 billion in annual revenues comes from jobs in the two war-torn countrie...   read more

Little by little the government has been allowing the military to participate in domestic law enforcement activities that are supposed to be banned under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. In 2002 President George W. Bush reportedly considered sendi...   read more

Banks trying to gouge good customers to make up for new restrictions passed by Congress has infuriated not only those on the left but even conservatives like Carl Horowitz, director of the National Legal and Policy Center’s Organized Labor Account...   read more

Some of President Barack Obama’s choices for U.S. ambassador have touched off foreign concerns over nominees being better known as FOOs (friends of Obama) or big-time fundraisers, but that’s not a problem for David Jacobson. Yes, he was one of Oba...   read more

Kenneth H. Merten, a career diplomat of more than 20 years, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Haiti August 17, 2009. Merten has twice before worked in the small island nation.   Merten attended college at Miami University in Ohio, where he grad...   read more

Having corrupted the meaning of the word “bonus” in the American lexicon, the nation’s largest banks rewarded employees to the tune of $32 billion last year while losing more than twice that amount and having to accept even larger sums from the fe...   read more

A plan to open the Federal Reserve to the same scrutiny that almost all other federal government operations endure is overwhelmingly supported by the American people, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports. The survey found that 75% of Ameri...   read more

If solar power is to go mainstream, it wouldn’t hurt to win over Nascar fans. The first step may be taking place in Pennsylvania, where owners of the Pocono Raceway are committed to spending $15-$17 million to install the largest solar farm in the...   read more

The Taliban may be known for their harsh rule of law, but at least they enforce it. This sentiment captured the feelings of many in Afghanistan’s Helmand province who were not displeased to see Taliban fighters forced out by advancing U.S. Marines...   read more

A combination of drought, foreign dams, and failed policies is threatening to turn much of Iraq’s fertile land into a dust bowl reminiscent of what happened in the United States during the Great Depression. Faced with what some are calling an envi...   read more