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

In the midst of testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates let drop a piece of news that unsettled civil libertarians: between 50 and 100 of the prisoners currently being held at Guantánamo Bay...   read more

Multiple class-action lawsuits have been filed by American soldiers against Halliburton and its subsidiary, KBR Inc., over its open-pit burning of garbage in Iraq and Afghanistan. KBR is accused of releasing harmful toxins into the air from fires ...   read more

Mark Lyttle is a U.S. citizen born in North Carolina. He does not speak a lick of Spanish. His biological father was part Puerto Rican, giving Lyttle a dark complexion. That, some mental illness, and a miscommunication was all it took for U.S. Imm...   read more

This week was not a good one for drug manufacturer Allergan. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first real competition to the California-based company’s big money maker, Botox, and the very next day, FDA officials de...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to maintain a high ethical standard in his administration hasn’t stopped the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from employing a former top executive from a major FEMA contractor to serve as the agency’s lea...   read more

The only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, may be transferred from Scotland to finish his sentence at home in a Libyan prison. Megrahi was convicted of murder for the bombing of the Pan Am...   read more

Kenya is once again poised on the brink of political violence between factions, prompting one leading female attorney to propose a novel solution for resolving the crisis: Don’t sleep with your husband. Taking a page from the ancient Greek play, L...   read more

The federal government may finally be moving towards eliminating the unequal sentencing in U.S. drug laws that punish users of crack more than cocaine. Key government and judicial officials testified at a congressional hearing on Wednesday that th...   read more

American officials fighting against Islamic terrorism should utilize a war-of-words to marginalize militant extremists, according to a new comprehensive study, the “Militant Ideology Atlas,” commissioned by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....   read more

Perhaps the most worried Americans during the current swine flu epidemic are pig farmers, who have dreaded the widespread association of the illness with their livelihood. Since the outbreak began, the pork industry has lobbied hard to change the ...   read more

The trend in recent years of grandparents raising their grandchildren has reached all the way to the military. There are about 2.5 million grandparents across the country caring for their children’s children, and while the military does not have i...   read more

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has released statistics on non-terrorism-related wiretap reports from 1998 to 2008 showing that much of the spending on wiretap technology might not be cost-effective. Wiretaps installed betwee...   read more

Education advocates, policy makers and parents alike are criticizing the failure of Congress and the Obama Administration to ensure the continuation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, a federally funded school voucher system in the Distric...   read more

The ugly truth about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim the...   read more

If it holds up among all parties involved, a plan brokered by the federal government would give controlling interest of battered car maker Chrysler to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. UAW would command a 55% stake, with Italian car company Fia...   read more

Last year, Forbes ranked Sheila Bair the second most powerful woman in the world behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), believes there is no financial juggernaut too big for the ...   read more