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

Older workers are at greater risk of being laid off because of their age in the current economic recession, the federal government and advocates warned this week at a congressional hearing. According to statistics from the Equal Employment Opportu...   read more

With a $26 billion deficit to fill, California needs to take advantage of something it does more than any other state—grow marijuana plants—according to Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. The San Francisco lawmaker has introduced AB 390, which wo...   read more

Heroin smugglers in Central Asia are saying “Thanks, America!” for the $37 million bridge built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2007. Intended to help expand trade between poverty-stricken Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the bridge across the P...   read more

Not satisfied with just one uranium mine in his corporate empire, billionaire and arms merchant James Neal Blue has now purchased an adjoining mine in Australia used to supply radioactive material for civilian nuclear reactors in the United States...   read more

A killer is on the loose in Sydney, Australia, prompting officials to hire two sharpshooters to protect a tiny colony of fairy penguins, the world’s smallest penguins. Nine of the birds were found mauled to death within a 10-day period, which repr...   read more

When mandatory helmet laws for motorcyclists were first adopted, advocates argued the requirement was a win-win for everyone—from riders to the health care system. Well, perhaps not. Researchers at Michigan State University have concluded that hel...   read more

The City of Angels is not where you want to be if you’re homeless, according to a new report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. The advocacy groups say cities across America are increa...   read more

Whether “Car Czar” Steven Rattner has stepped down because of a growing public corruption probe by New York’s attorney general or because his specialty is no longer needed, the job of finishing the Obama administration’s repair of the auto industr...   read more

Vowing to protect the “dignity and sacredness of human life,” Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas is sponsoring legislation that would ban the creation of genetically-spliced humans and animals. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which pe...   read more

Until President Barack Obama announced John V. Roos to be the next ambassador to Japan, the assumption among many in the U.S. and Japan was that this posting would go to Harvard professor Joseph Nye, a specialist in international affairs. Instead,...   read more

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has had a brief, if not unwelcome, existence in the White House. Created by Congress in 2004 at the behest of the 9/11 Commission, the board was supposed to oversee the federal government’s actions o...   read more

There’s no denying Americans favor small businesses over big corporations, radio host Michael Medved writes, even though he insists this love of the underdog makes little sense. Poll after poll clearly shows how people see virtue and trust in the ...   read more

President Obama nominated a longtime protégée of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Capricia Penavic Marshall, to be Chief of Protocol, a State Department position holding ambassadorial rank. Although the chief of protocol customarily travels wit...   read more

Uncle Sam’s checkbook is seriously out of whack. With still three months to go in the current fiscal year, the federal government has already hit the trillion-dollar deficit mark for the first time ever in a yearly budget. According to figures rel...   read more

When buying a home, it might not be a bad idea to ask, in addition to how the plumbing and foundation are, whether anyone ever cooked methamphetamine inside it. Living inside a former meth house can cause serious and debilitating health problems, ...   read more

Electric cars by the thousands could be traveling America’s roads within the next 20 years, assuming industry and car buyers embrace an important new facet of the vehicles: switchable batteries. Economist Thomas Becker at the University of Califor...   read more