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

After not paying its utility bill in full for five years, the struggling city of Highland Park, Michigan (population: 11,776), is so bad off that it is tearing out the majority of its street lights—and in the process exposing its residents to a he...   read more

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of Chechnya, enjoyed quite a birthday celebration last week that included singers, renowned musicians and Hollywood film stars Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme.   Human rights organizations publicly chastized ...   read more

Exploring WikiLeaks’ more than 250,000 confidential State Department cables has been made easier by a group of European computer experts. Cablesearch is a new search engine created by the European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting. The “Google...   read more

Stephen Patrick has spent the past three years collecting a paycheck from the federal government while not doing the job for which he was hired, because his supervisors can’t decide what to do with him following his professional transgressions. ...   read more

Decades of adopting tougher sentencing laws in the U.S., including mandatory minimum sentences, have had the effect of magnifying the power of local prosecutors, who have intimidated defendants into accepting deals and avoiding trials altogether...   read more

The nonprofit Center for Food Safety has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change its regulations and require all food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to bear labels informing consumers of this fact.   Current...   read more

AllGov has received numerous requests for practical information about how to obtain military records. The good news is that obtaining a copy of someone’s U.S. military record is now a request away from the National Archives, for veterans or thei...   read more

Fort Detrick in Maryland, where the U.S. biological weapons program was based from the 1940s through the 1960s, is suspected of causing numerous cases of cancer and other serious health problems for those living near it.   Randy White, founder...   read more

A tough job these days is the one that officials in Japan are doing to convince overseas buyers that their nuclear reactors are a smart investment.   Despite the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March that forced more than 10...   read more

In one swift, controversial attack, the U.S. government assassinated two Americans last month, raising legal concerns about what the killings mean for the constitutional guarantee of due process for citizens.   The September 30 drone strike in...   read more

According to economists, the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009 and since then the United States has been in a period of economic recovery. However, the recession didn’t really end for most Americans, as poll after poll has revealed lar...   read more

The U.S. pullout from Afghanistan within the next few years will by no means include all American soldiers, or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).   By 2014, the Obama administration plans to withdraw most of the military’s large-scale comb...   read more

The Obama administration’s top prosecutors in California are implementing a joint campaign to go after the state’s biggest medical marijuana operations, claiming businesses are flouting the law and making an illegal profit.   For the first two a...   read more

Federal investigators should consider reopening the 2001 anthrax case, according to a new assessment of the attack by three scientists. Anthrax spores, which were sent through the mail to media and political offices, killed five people and sicke...   read more

The environmental assessment that has helped green-light a controversial oil pipeline project from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico was performed by a company that had financial ties to the pipeline operator.   Cardno ENTRIX, an environmental cont...   read more

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has not enjoyed the legal success it anticipated after the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago affirmed the right to own handguns while striking down the District of Columbia’s tough gun-control law.   The N...   read more