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

From the perspective of the board room, the fact that 25 corporations last year paid more money to their CEOs than they did in income taxes to the U.S. government is an achievement deserving applause.   But few people outside Wall Street are c...   read more

No shortage of potential controversy and trouble surrounds Exxon Mobil’s latest international oil venture involving a Russian state-run company.   On the surface, this is a story of a U.S.-based company making a deal to extract fossil fuels ab...   read more

Later this month the U.S. military will officially begin allowing homosexuals to serve openly. On the day this landmark change takes effect, gays and lesbians in two branches of the armed services will also be able to buy copies of a new magazin...   read more

In the wake of recent revelations that an undercover ATF operation designed to track illegal guns purchased in the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has lost track of more than 1,000 guns, Acting ATF Director Ken Melson was re-assigned to the Justice D...   read more

August found AllGov readers most interested in science-related controversies and court cases having to do with tobacco; responsibility for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks; and drug companies. In addition, one story from nine months ago, h...   read more

As it begins its phased drawdown of troops, the United States has experienced its worst month in Afghanistan in terms of fatalities after almost 10 years of warfare.   Sixty-six military personnel have died in August, surpassing the previous hig...   read more

More than a million gallons of oil-dispersing chemicals were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill of April 2010, and based on what was known about the products available at the time, it is probable that some of the dispersan...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to eliminate deadlines for replacing traffic signs in local communities, saying the mandates would have cost millions of dollars at a time when states, cities and counties are struggling to balance budgets. ...   read more

Kellogg, the world’s largest cereal company, is under fire again for allegedly selling healthy breakfast food that is anything but. In one case, a “natural” product was produced almost entirely with synthetic ingredients.   In a federal class-...   read more

The Department of Defense managed to consume nearly three quarters of a billion dollars by having to pay late fees on rented shipping containers used for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for other purposes.   After reviewing federa...   read more

The post-9/11 years at the Department of Defense have seen an enormous increase in no-bid contracts, with the lack of competition approaching 50% during the first six months of this year.   Over the course of the last 10 years, the amount of m...   read more

The CIA is being accused of censoring an FBI agent’s book on the fight against terrorism in order to keep the intelligence agency from looking bad.   FBI agent Ali Soufan has written a memoir about his days as a counterterrorism expert from 19...   read more

News from the housing market is still grim, as mortgage applications last week hit a 15-year low.   The mortgage application rate dropped 5.7%, down to the lowest level since December 1996.   Also, re-sales of homes in 2011 may be the worst ...   read more

The rise of Islamophobia in the United States can be traced to a small group of people and organizations who are well financed by about half a dozen foundations, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund.   After the terrorist ...   read more

To demonstrate President Barack Obama’s commitment to “green” power solutions, the administration’s top energy official promised 10 months ago that solar technology would be installed on top of the White House by the start of summer.   With su...   read more

The Obama administration has refused to declassify a secret memo from the George W. Bush presidency that justified the warrantless spying conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).   Matthew Aid, a writer who’s covered the NSA and survei...   read more