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

Prince Khaled bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has pledged to add $900,000 to a bounty offered by a Saudi cleric to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier.   Khaled, brother of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, made his declaration, ...   read more

Regulators in Colorado are allowing a mining company’s leaky disposal ponds to house radioactive waste, even after decades of complaints from state and federal environmental officials.   Cotter Corp.’s tailing ponds near Cañon City (population 1...   read more

Three of October’s top ten AllGov stories dealt with defense contracting abuses, and three more with controversial laws passed in Southern states.   1. Homeland Security Testing “Pre-Crime” Detection Technology 2. Wartime Contracting Panel Se...   read more

The Obama administration wants to make it tougher for Americans to obtain government records by offering agencies more opportunities to deny Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.   The Department of Justice has proposed 15 rule changes to ...   read more

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and other Republican politicians have decided bike paths are a waste of money and want any new projects for them defunded by the federal government.   While discussing the need to repair a bridge in the northern par...   read more

Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice tried unsuccessfully to convince a federal judge to allow former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to submit her CIA-prepared talking points in place of giving actual live testimony at the trial of ex-C...   read more

Apparently, the government of the state of Wisconsin believes that the lens is mightier than the bullet. Having approved a new law allowing residents to carry concealed weapons beginning November 1, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now working o...   read more

Tunisia’s Ambassador to the United States, Mohamed Salah Tekaya, presented his credentials to the State Department on October 1, 2010, and then to President Obama on December 7, 2010…only ten days before his countrymen exploded in a revolution tha...   read more

A U.S. federal court has ruled Rio Tinto, an international mining corporation, must face charges of genocide and war crimes for allegedly contributing to Papua New Guinea’s crackdown on indigenous workers.   A group of current and former residen...   read more

Seeking to head off any further attacks of hair and beard trimming, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into a heated quarrel among the Amish in Ohio that turned violent.   Sam Mullet, leader of a 120-member breakaway Amish grou...   read more

Clifford Stanley’s career at the Department of Defense has come to an end, with the ex-Marine general resigning before the completion of an investigation into charges that he was incompetent and tyrannical as well as overspent taxpayer dollars and...   read more

Steve Matenje became ambassador of Malawi to the United States in September 2010. He also serves as his nation’s top diplomat to Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia.   Born on February 17, 1956, in Zomba, Malawi, Matenje received a certificat...   read more

The tiny European republic of San Marino (population: 32,000), completely surrounded by Italy, is known for having the world’s oldest functioning constitution (enacted in 1600). Long associated with the United States, in 1861 the San Marinese admi...   read more

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit against the Department of Justice in order to learn more about a controversial interpretation of a section of the Patriot Act.   Both civil liberties group...   read more

The nuclear power plant in Japan crippled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, released nearly twice as much radiation as the government claimed.   Researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research examined dozens of radiation...   read more

Catholic officials have an embarrassment on their hands in Germany, where the country’s largest media company, Weltbild, produces pornography despite its 100% ownership by the church.   Within Weltbild’s mammoth book catalog are about 2,500 erot...   read more