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 Western United States is experiencing one of its worst fire seasons ever, and gunfire is partly to blame.   More than 30 wildfires affecting five states have been caused by target shooting or other firearms, according to government officia...   read more

To call Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly, head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a bully is putting it mildly. The MDA is tasked with developing a viable system for protecting the United States and its interests from ballistic missile atta...   read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has decided to halt the involuntary downgrading of jobs, many of which were at VA hospitals, following protests from workers and their union.   The controversy began after the VA launched its “Job Classi...   read more

The new ambassador from the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore is an experienced diplomat with no prior postings in the Western Hemisphere. Set to begin his posting on July 23, 2012, Ashok Kumar Mirpuri succeeds Chan Heng Chee, who served a...   read more

Sending American jobs overseas isn’t just for manufacturing and customer service businesses. Media companies too are figuring out ways to save money by using foreign cheap labor to report on news in the United States.   A pioneer of media outs...   read more

American farmers are losing billions of dollars a year because a shortage of farmworkers is resulting in crops spoiling in unpicked fields.   The estimated loss is between $5 billion and $9 billion annually, according to the American Farm Bure...   read more

Super PACs and other political organizations wanting involvement in Rhode Island elections will now have to disclose their supporters and expenditures under a new law.   Lawmakers adopted the Transparency in Political Spending Act (TIPS) to be...   read more

Nearly 7,000 teachers were wrongly terminated following Hurricane Katrina, a Louisiana judge has ruled.   Four months after disaster struck New Orleans in August 2005, school board officials decided to fire 7,500 employees who at the time were...   read more

With its satellite already in orbit, the government of Vietnam will now receive a $125.8 million loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) that will help pay for the space hardware purchased from Lockheed Martin.   The Vinasat-2 telecommun...   read more

In a year of billion-dollar settlements involving drug manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has topped them all. The British pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record amount—$3 billion—to resolve criminal charges for promoting its best-s...   read more

North Carolina moved a big step closer to allowing the most controversial form of natural gas drilling, thanks to the errant voting of Democratic lawmaker Becky Carney.   Republicans in the statehouse pushed through legislation that would crea...   read more

Local judges in Georgia are still closing their courtrooms to the public, despite being told by the nation’s highest court to stop.   The U.S. Supreme Court two years ago vacated a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that had upheld the closure of a ...   read more

Florida’s attempt to stop doctors from discussing gun ownership with patients has been blocked by a federal judge.   The legislation, which was signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, was directed primarily at pediatricians, who routinely ask new ...   read more

The Pentagon is temporarily suspending part of a popular program that allows police departments to buy military weapons after news reports of million-dollar California buying sprees that included a tank. The military wants to conduct an inventor...   read more

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the penalty for not having health insurance is a tax, some Republicans, including Rep. Connie Mack of Florida and Rep. Jeff Landry, have blasted the federal healthcare reform law as containing the l...   read more

It may not come as a surprise that the world’s largest arms trader has reservations about negotiations for a treaty to limit the international sale of weapons that began on Tuesday in New York.   The United States, which sells more military ha...   read more