Trump said he would send the National Guard to Toronto and impose 50% tariffs on all Los Angeles products. AllGov reporter Sidney Finster suggested that perhaps Trump had confused the two cities. Because Toronto is in Canada, not the United States, Trump can’t send the National Guard there. And because Los Angeles is in the United States, Trump can’t impose tariffs on a U.S. city. Trump defended his position by saying, “I’m always right.”   read more

The United States has often made bad decisions while trying to reconstruct Afghanistan, where hundreds of millions of American tax dollars are going to waste.   As much as $400 million has been spent unwisely on large construction projects, acco...   read more

A federal appeals court has blocked the implementation of Arizona’s late-term abortion law, which was set to take effect on August 2.   The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in July to stop the...   read more

The Department of Justice has been doing a lousy job of informing other federal agencies about companies that have broken the law and are supposed to be barred from contracting work.   According to the department’s inspector general (IG), the Bu...   read more

Living without electricity is something hundreds of millions in India do everyday, and not just when the country’s shaky power grid collapses.   The world’s second most populous country garnered international attention this week when it experien...   read more

After spending years trying to debunk global warming, scientist Richard Muller has come to the conclusion that the earth really is heating up—and that humans are to blame.   Muller, a UC Berkeley physicist, co-founded the Berkeley Earth Surface ...   read more

Pennsylvania’s “Medical Gag Rule” faces a legal challenge in federal court now that a local doctor has sued the state to get the fracking-related law thrown out.   Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against the state attorney general, its sec...   read more

Putting the cart before the horse can have dangerous consequences if the cart is a nuclear power plant and the horse represents earthquake safety.   But that’s what has happened in Japan, where the government decided to restart some of its nucle...   read more

The prosecution of a Southern California college professor could have far-reaching effects on other universities and laboratory faculty.   Professor Patrick Harran and the University of California Regents were charged last year with three counts...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has retracted a suggestion that employees consider “Meatless Mondays” after the cattlemen industry reacted angrily to the idea.   In a recent internal newsletter, the USDA suggested ways for workers to r...   read more

Politicians from New York State want to rename the post office in Monroe and dedicate it to a fallen Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.   The plan is to honor Gregg David Wenzel, who joined the CIA after the September 11 terrorist atta...   read more

Voters in Los Angeles County will decide in November whether adult film actors should be required to wear condoms.   The initiative, approved for the ballot by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, was spearheaded by the AIDS Healthcare F...   read more

The 2012 drought has become a national phenomenon, impacting at a minimum some portion of every U.S. state and Puerto Rico.   As of July 24, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported every state in the country was experiencing “at least a small area sho...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pulled its proposed plan to require screening of chemical-plant workers for terrorist ties, a move that followed complaints from industry opponents of the plan.   Under the plan, chemical plants woul...   read more

A study from the University of Texas (UT) was heralded as an independent assessment that no link existed between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution. But it turned out the report’s author was anything but independent.   The report (“F...   read more

As part of an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. government, a federal judge has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to release more documents relating to Cold War-era experimentation on American soldiers.   Judge Jacqueline Scott Corl...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the healthcare law could be used to challenge federal environmental efforts, according to one legal scholar.   Jonathan Adler of Case Western University recently wrote that the court’s striking down of...   read more