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

Last week’s earthquake that rattled the Mid-Atlantic region also left federal safety inspectors a little shaken after they examined a Virginia nuclear power plant that was shut down by the seismic event.   Regulators with the Nuclear Regulator...   read more

Since the U.S. presence in Iraq began in 2003, the town of Ishaqi twice has suffered civilian massacres, allegedly involving American soldiers.   Five years ago, on March 15, 2006, the town, about 80 miles northwest of Baghdad, made headlines af...   read more

Energy company Exelon has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over data regarding radiation leakage from one of its power plants.   The demand came about after the parents of a girl sued Exelon claiming their daughter developed brain cance...   read more

Since July 2007, the ambassador to the U.S. from Latvia has been Andrejs Pildegovičs, a career diplomat who has defended U.S. spending on the Latvian military as necessary to the ongoing war in Afghanistan and to US security interests generally....   read more

Bockari Kortu Stevens has served as ambassador to the U.S. from Sierra Leone since November 2007. In addition to his position in the U.S., he also represents his country to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Canada, Jamaica, Brazil...   read more

No matter how you look at it, the decision to spend more than $200 billion on contractors for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars proved extremely wasteful.   The congressionally-created eight-member, bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in ...   read more

One problem with entrusting the secret transport of detainees to private companies is that the process may end up spilling information about clandestine operations, if issues of money arise.   This development now plagues the CIA, whose contra...   read more

It took eight years and five months, but the U.S. finally got through a month in Iraq without any soldiers dying.   There are about 48,000 personnel still in Iraq, but not a single one was killed in August, marking the first no-fatality month ...   read more

It was heralded as the first beneficiary of the Obama administration’s energy loan guarantee program, and it was supposed to demonstrate how green technologies and job creation could go hand-in-hand. But instead of being a shining beacon for the...   read more

Feed-the-meter has a whole new meaning in the German city of Bonn, where prostitutes working the streets must plunk money into converted parking meters before going to work.   In certain areas of Bonn where sex workers can operate legally, the...   read more

From the perspective of the board room, the fact that 25 corporations last year paid more money to their CEOs than they did in income taxes to the U.S. government is an achievement deserving applause.   But few people outside Wall Street are c...   read more

No shortage of potential controversy and trouble surrounds Exxon Mobil’s latest international oil venture involving a Russian state-run company.   On the surface, this is a story of a U.S.-based company making a deal to extract fossil fuels ab...   read more

Later this month the U.S. military will officially begin allowing homosexuals to serve openly. On the day this landmark change takes effect, gays and lesbians in two branches of the armed services will also be able to buy copies of a new magazin...   read more

In the wake of recent revelations that an undercover ATF operation designed to track illegal guns purchased in the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has lost track of more than 1,000 guns, Acting ATF Director Ken Melson was re-assigned to the Justice D...   read more

August found AllGov readers most interested in science-related controversies and court cases having to do with tobacco; responsibility for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks; and drug companies. In addition, one story from nine months ago, h...   read more

As it begins its phased drawdown of troops, the United States has experienced its worst month in Afghanistan in terms of fatalities after almost 10 years of warfare.   Sixty-six military personnel have died in August, surpassing the previous hig...   read more