Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

Governments of all stripes, including authoritarian regimes, have plenty of opportunities to shop for the last technology to spy on their citizens. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the surveillance industry has exploded in size, so...   read more

Conservative lawmakers in Hungary have outlawed homelessness. The crackdown comes as the number of people living on the streets of the country’s capital, Budapest, has grown to about 10,000. Charitable organizations have blasted the new law, calli...   read more

On June 24, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Adrienne S. O’Neal to be the United States ambassador to Cape Verde, a Portuguese-speaking island nation 300 miles off the west coast of Africa. There is a significant Cape Verdean-American popula...   read more

The latest ambassador from the African nation of Gabon is a longtime public servant who spent his twenties in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; and Phoenix, Arizona; both as a college student and an early career professional. Michael Moussa-A...   read more

Congress has been doing less with more.   Since the end of the 1970s, the U.S. House and Senate have drastically cut back on the number of hearings they have held, according to the Brookings Institution. The House these days is holding about two...   read more

JPMorgan Chase ordered a 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter out of their northwest Atlanta home after trouble arose over mortgage payments. But Fulton County sheriff’s deputies and the moving company hired to evict the women refused t...   read more

It will tell you where to get breast implants and where to score drugs, but the Siri virtual assistant software on Apple’s new iPhone 4S won’t tell you where to get an abortion.   Pro-choice advocates are urging Apple to correct Siri, which curr...   read more

The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself.   The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail was named, was arrested on charges of tr...   read more

To hear some in the media speak about it, you’d think that China was a nation of rich and middle-class people with enough money to load up on new consumer goods. In fact, most of China isn’t like that at all.   On Tuesday, the Chinese government...   read more

Democrats and Republicans joined together in the U.S. Senate this week to keep legislation intact that would expand the military’s power to go after terrorism suspects, including American citizens in the U.S., and confine them indefinitely without...   read more

The summer of 2008 was a jittery time on Wall Street. A crippled Bear Stearns had already sold itself off at a bargain rate to JPMorgan Chase, the housing market was turning to quicksand, and whispers were circulating about the health of Fannie Ma...   read more

Dakota Meyer, the first U.S. Marine since the Vietnam War to receive the Medal of Honor while still alive, has gone from war hero to whistleblower in just a couple of months.   Having left the service and been celebrated in the press for his her...   read more

Bradley Manning, the Army private awaiting trial for allegedly giving thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks, is being denied evidence for his defense by the Obama administration.   David Coombs, Manning’s defense attorney, wa...   read more

November’s most popular AllGov stories reflect a growing sense of injustice in the United States. A hospital denies a liver transplant to a patient because he took marijuana prescribed by one of its own doctors; a policeman pepper sprays non-viole...   read more

It may not be long before the United States’ supremacy in drone warfare is mitigated by other countries—and terrorist organizations—possessing the same technology.   It is estimated that as many as 50 countries are developing or purchasing unman...   read more

Since DNA testing became available two decades ago, about 280 convicted felons in the United States have been exonerated of their crimes. In the process, serious flaws in the legal system have become exposed, including misconduct by law enforcemen...   read more