Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

As the 2012 elections draw nearer, the battle over redistricting based by on the 2010 census is heating up in several states.   With the help of the Republican-controlled state Senate, Governor Jan Brewer this week removed the chairwoman of the ...   read more

Since taking command of Guantánamo Bay, Rear Admiral David Woods has ordered prison guards to read all mail for detainees, including correspondence from their lawyers which is supposed to be protected under attorney-client privilege.   Woods dec...   read more

Following on its warning from last week, the United States has withdrawn its funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a member.   The U.S., which is responsib...   read more

Thousands of drug offenders convicted of possessing crack cocaine under federal law will receive early releases due to recent changes in mandatory sentencing laws that come closer to equalizing the penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. ...   read more

A U.S. national park will once again become a point of entry for citizens of Mexico now that Washington has decided to reopen an unmanned border crossing.   The border crossing, located in Big Bend National Park in remote southwest Texas, had be...   read more

Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel has a new enemy: the hacker collective known as Anonymous.   Angry over the alleged kidnapping of one of their members, Anonymous has threatened in a video to expose the identities of Mexican police, taxi drivers and j...   read more

Since August 1, 2011, the ambassador to the United States from India, the world’s second most populous nation (population: 1.14 billion) has been Nirupama Rao. A seasoned diplomat, she is the third woman to serve in the position and the second in ...   read more

Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates insist government regulations are holding the economy back and therefore must be reduced in number. But the latest government figures don’t bear this out.   During first half of this year, of more...   read more

Residents of Boulder, Colorado, are deciding whether to dump the corporation currently providing the city’s electricity in favor of establishing a municipal utility that would be more environmental friendly and locally accountable.   The city’s ...   read more

Prince Khaled bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has pledged to add $900,000 to a bounty offered by a Saudi cleric to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier.   Khaled, brother of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, made his declaration, ...   read more

Regulators in Colorado are allowing a mining company’s leaky disposal ponds to house radioactive waste, even after decades of complaints from state and federal environmental officials.   Cotter Corp.’s tailing ponds near Cañon City (population 1...   read more

Three of October’s top ten AllGov stories dealt with defense contracting abuses, and three more with controversial laws passed in Southern states.   1. Homeland Security Testing “Pre-Crime” Detection Technology 2. Wartime Contracting Panel Se...   read more

The Obama administration wants to make it tougher for Americans to obtain government records by offering agencies more opportunities to deny Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.   The Department of Justice has proposed 15 rule changes to ...   read more

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and other Republican politicians have decided bike paths are a waste of money and want any new projects for them defunded by the federal government.   While discussing the need to repair a bridge in the northern par...   read more

Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice tried unsuccessfully to convince a federal judge to allow former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to submit her CIA-prepared talking points in place of giving actual live testimony at the trial of ex-C...   read more

Apparently, the government of the state of Wisconsin believes that the lens is mightier than the bullet. Having approved a new law allowing residents to carry concealed weapons beginning November 1, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now working o...   read more