President Donald Trump gleefully announced that, under his direction, U.S. military troops had swooped down on the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento and kidnapped California Governor Gavin Newsom. “We’re charging Newscum with fraud.” When a reporter asked for specifics about the fraud charges, Trump pointed to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi, clearly taken by surprise, said, “We’re looking into it and will let you know the details as soon as we’ve created them.”   read more

It will tell you where to get breast implants and where to score drugs, but the Siri virtual assistant software on Apple’s new iPhone 4S won’t tell you where to get an abortion.   Pro-choice advocates are urging Apple to correct Siri, which curr...   read more

The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself.   The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail was named, was arrested on charges of tr...   read more

To hear some in the media speak about it, you’d think that China was a nation of rich and middle-class people with enough money to load up on new consumer goods. In fact, most of China isn’t like that at all.   On Tuesday, the Chinese government...   read more

Democrats and Republicans joined together in the U.S. Senate this week to keep legislation intact that would expand the military’s power to go after terrorism suspects, including American citizens in the U.S., and confine them indefinitely without...   read more

The summer of 2008 was a jittery time on Wall Street. A crippled Bear Stearns had already sold itself off at a bargain rate to JPMorgan Chase, the housing market was turning to quicksand, and whispers were circulating about the health of Fannie Ma...   read more

Dakota Meyer, the first U.S. Marine since the Vietnam War to receive the Medal of Honor while still alive, has gone from war hero to whistleblower in just a couple of months.   Having left the service and been celebrated in the press for his her...   read more

Bradley Manning, the Army private awaiting trial for allegedly giving thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks, is being denied evidence for his defense by the Obama administration.   David Coombs, Manning’s defense attorney, wa...   read more

November’s most popular AllGov stories reflect a growing sense of injustice in the United States. A hospital denies a liver transplant to a patient because he took marijuana prescribed by one of its own doctors; a policeman pepper sprays non-viole...   read more

It may not be long before the United States’ supremacy in drone warfare is mitigated by other countries—and terrorist organizations—possessing the same technology.   It is estimated that as many as 50 countries are developing or purchasing unman...   read more

Since DNA testing became available two decades ago, about 280 convicted felons in the United States have been exonerated of their crimes. In the process, serious flaws in the legal system have become exposed, including misconduct by law enforcemen...   read more

When students borrow money for college, and often saddle themselves with enormous debts, they wind up taking out loans with one of five major lenders in the U.S. A trillion-dollar business, it has been a source of profit for the big five.   The ...   read more

In a first for Ohio, officials in Cleveland Heights have removed a child from his home on grounds of being severely obese.   The Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services put the third grader, who weighed more than 200 pounds, i...   read more

No man is above the law in Germany, where even the German-born pope can get in trouble for not wearing his seat belt.   Uwe Hilsmann, a German citizen from Dortmund, hired a lawyer, Johannes Sundermann, who filed charges against Pope Benedict XV...   read more

Update: 15 Democrats Join Republicans to Give Military Power to Imprison Suspects Indefinitely   Bipartisan legislation being considered in the U.S. Senate would expand the military’s power to go after any terrorism suspect, including Americ...   read more

Tim Loop of Brownsville, Texas, is now living in no-man’s land, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security.   Loop and his family reside on farmland settled by his grandfather almost a century ago near the U.S.-Mexico border. But their proper...   read more

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) wants federal agencies to stop hiring companies to perform jobs that are “inherently governmental functions,” which by their very definition are never supposed to be contracted out.   Examples of these jobs inclu...   read more