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

Europe is beginning to embrace the concept of a “fat tax” in an effort to reduce obesity and its associated health care costs. Hungary, with a 19% obesity rate, has had a special tax on candy for more than 85 years.  On September 1 of this year,...   read more

Wanted: someone to take over for a legendary mafia boss and the world’s most infamous terrorist.   The famed Ten Most Wanted list managed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has two vacancies these days, now that Osama bin Laden is de...   read more

The nation’s most populous state has decided to reject the Obama administration’s proposed settlement with large banks over their handling of mortgage foreclosures.   California’s state attorney general, Kamala Harris, said this week that a prop...   read more

Officials in the Customs and Border Protection service believe the United States has another border problem, this time with Canada. According to a U.S. government report, U.S. officers control only 31 miles of the almost 4000-mile border.   Th...   read more

New York City developer Tom A. Bernstein raised at least $100,000 for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and was rewarded with an appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which serves as the Board of Directors for the U.S. Ho...   read more

A longtime Labour politician and former head of state, Mike Moore has served as New Zealand’s ambassador to the United States since January 2010.   Born January 28, 1949, in Whakatane, New Zealand, Moore was raised in Kawakawa and educated at ...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is going well for the West. Or things are steadily deteriorating. It all depends on who’s talking.   The U.S.-led coalition produced numbers this week that indicated violence is down in Afghanistan, especially in the sou...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is considering expanding its definition of rape, which hasn’t changed in more than 80 years.   FBI officials met recently with members of the Police Executive Research Forum, which includes police repr...   read more

Who needs “vajayjay” when vagina is a-okay?   Gone, it seems, are the days of sexual euphemisms when referring to one’s “lady parts.” This network television season, vagina has made (or will soon make) vocal appearances on ABC, CBS and NBC.  ...   read more

The ambassador to the United States from the West African country of Burkina Faso is a former Prime Minister of the country who holds a doctorate in economics.    Paramanga Ernest Yonli was born on December 31, 1956, in Tansarga, Tapoa Provinc...   read more

The ambassador to the United States from the Polynesian island nation of Tonga is career diplomat Sonatane Tu’akinamolahi Taumoepeau-Tupou, whom King Siaosi Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho Tupou V (aka King George Tupou V) appointed to the post...   read more

At Ford Motor Co. there hasn’t been a bad quarter in more than two years. The auto manufacturer’s top executive earned more than $25 million in 2010. And yet management feels its auto workers—who gave up raises and benefits when the company teet...   read more

President Barack Obama has earned higher marks than his predecessor, George W. Bush, from journalists for making his administration more open and transparent. But this fact belies the feeling among many who cover science, health and the environm...   read more

Federal penitentiaries are experiencing a disturbing problem with criminal behavior that has nothing to do with inmates.   Last decade, crimes among federal prison guards increased dramatically, with the number of correctional officers arreste...   read more

Observations of beer-bottle humping beetles topped the list of recipients at this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, the event that gives scientists and others a chance to laugh at themselves and each other.   Instead of honoring great breakthroughs in sci...   read more

In September, the month of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, AllGov readers showed an exceptional interest in the American people’s relationship with the rest of the world. Three of the to...   read more