Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

Having grown tired of the military’s stonewalling, a U.S. senator this week released thousands of documents pertaining to the decades-long water contamination at a key Marine Corps base.   Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), chairman of the Sen...   read more

Political contributions totaling millions of dollars made during the 2007-2008 election cycle have been erased from a federal database maintained by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).   According to three university academics studying camp...   read more

The White House has been dragging its feet over rules implementing a major food-safety law, according to supporters of the legislation.   With broad bipartisan support, Congress adopted the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2010. The law was in...   read more

As Matt Bewig has reported on AllGov, on Monday, July 23, the state of Georgia will put to death a mentally retarded man unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes and stays the execution. Attorneys for Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American ...   read more

Quietly, the United States has reduced carbon emissions to their lowest levels in six years. But the reasons for this success may be keeping the Obama administration from touting this accomplishment.   Since 2006, the U.S. output of greenhouse...   read more

Going to the polls on Election Day and having to pay $20 to cast a ballot may seem outrageous. But that is what thousands of poor Americans are facing due to new voter ID laws.   In 10 states, voters must now show some form of photo identifica...   read more

Capitol One Bank has earned the distinction of being the first bank penalized by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which discovered the financial institution had duped millions of customers into buying products they didn’t nee...   read more

All statements made by the five Guantánamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks have been classified by the Obama administration, prompting legal challenges from civil libertarians and news organizations.   The order, ...   read more

Clarence Aaron may get a second chance at having his life sentence reduced by the White House.   Convicted in 1993 and sent away for three life terms for his role in a cocaine deal, Aaron was denied commutation by President George W. Bush. But...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, but will continue to allow its use in plastic bottles used by adults.   The FDA’s decision was less dramatic than it may appear, since manufacturers ...   read more

Following criticism from conservative circles, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pulled its Spanish-language radio programs designed to inform Hispanics about the federal food-stamp program.   A conservative website, The Daily Caller, ra...   read more

President Barack Obama’s promise to make government more transparent has not applied to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) when it comes to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.   In each of the first three years of the Obama admini...   read more

 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was told a year ago by a federal appellate court to hold public hearings about the use of full-body scanners at airport checkpoints. The TSA has yet to follow the court’s order while continuing to ...   read more

The Alabama town of Harpersville has been accused of running a “debtors prison” and using its courts to commit extortion.   Circuit Judge Hub Harrington said he was appalled after finding out that the Harpersville Municipal Court and a private p...   read more

Los Angeles officials have accused US Bank of being one of the city’s largest “slumlords” and filed a civil suit against it worth potentially “hundreds of millions of dollars” for its handling of 1,500 foreclosed residential properties.   City...   read more

Raising the specter of Enron’s intrusion into the California energy market a decade ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is investigating allegations that JPMorgan Chase & Co. manipulated the state’s market in 2010-2011 for milli...   read more