• New limits should be placed on FBI use of U.S. foreign spy data, a key intelligence board says

    New limits should be placed on FBI use of U.S. foreign spy data, a key intelligence board says

    Jul 31, 2023 08:59 PM EST

    ... said. Many in the GOP, meanwhile, are furious about the FBI's investigations of former President Donald Trump and mistakes found by the Justice Department inspector general and other reviewers. In a statement, the FBI said the report highlighted “how crucial” foreign intelligence was to the bureau's mission. “We ...

  • After Boeing Max crashes, U.S. regulators detail safety information that aircraft makers must disclose

    After Boeing Max crashes, U.S. regulators detail safety information that aircraft makers must disclose

    Jul 26, 2023 09:31 PM EST

    ... conflict’ for the FAA? The FAA certified the 737 Max in 2017 without understanding a critical flight-control system, according to the Transportation Department's inspector general and a panel of international aviation experts. They also found that Boeing withheld information about the automated system, which malfunctioned when it got ...

  • IRS is ending unannounced visits to taxpayers

    IRS is ending unannounced visits to taxpayers

    Jul 24, 2023 09:07 PM EST

    ... at its facilities. And in May, the agency said it would begin limiting workers’ personal identifying information on communications with taxpayers. The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration said in a report that it was “concerned that taxpayers and anti-government or anti-tax groups with malevolent intent ...

  • Northwestern fires football coach amid hazing and racism allegations

    Northwestern fires football coach amid hazing and racism allegations

    Jul 11, 2023 10:30 PM EST

    ... forced sexual acts. The university received an anonymous complaint from a former player last November and launched an independent investigation run by the former Illinois inspector general. It found most players participated in or were aware of hazing in the football program. The student newspaper The Daily Northwestern also reported ...

  • AP report: Disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed during altercation in federal prison

    AP report: Disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed during altercation in federal prison

    Jul 10, 2023 01:34 PM EST

    ... of allegations against him in 2015. He was arrested by Michigan State University police in 2016, more than a year later.The Justice Department’s inspector general said in July 2021 that the FBI made “fundamental” errors in investigating the sexual abuse allegations against Nassar and did not treat the ...

  • UN chief calls for a robust international police force to help combat Haiti's armed gangs

    UN chief calls for a robust international police force to help combat Haiti's armed gangs

    Jul 06, 2023 11:47 PM EST

    ... nearly 200 people since April in their fight against suspected gang members. O’Neill said he met with senior Haitian National Police leaders, including the inspector general, and they told him they are committed to seriously looking at the integrity and competence of all officers and for evidence of misconduct ...

  • EPA faces lawsuit from 10 states over emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves

    EPA faces lawsuit from 10 states over emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves

    Jul 02, 2023 10:08 PM EST

    ... be reviewed and that its testing and certification program is so ineffective, it has failed to ensure the existing standards. The EPA's Office of Inspector General, in a report released in February, found the EPA's 2015 performance standards for residential wood heaters was flawed and said the agency ...

  • Airline cancellations and delays already up ahead of July 4 holiday weekend

    Airline cancellations and delays already up ahead of July 4 holiday weekend

    Jun 28, 2023 05:51 PM EST

    ... is training about 3,000 new air traffic controllers, but most of them won’t be ready anytime soon. Last week, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said in a report that the FAA has made only “limited efforts” to adequately staff critical air traffic control centers and lacks a ...

  • News Wrap: Senate report outlines failures by the FBI, Homeland Security before Jan. 6

    News Wrap: Senate report outlines failures by the FBI, Homeland Security before Jan. 6

    Jun 27, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... Turkey to Western Europe since 2021. A U.S. government watchdog today doubled the estimate of pandemic relief money stolen from two main programs. The inspector general for the Small Business Administration now says the total could top $200 billion. It was meant to aid businesses and workers. Other estimates ...

  • New federal estimate finds more than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen

    New federal estimate finds more than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen

    Jun 27, 2023 07:03 PM EST

    ... 86 percent of the likely fraud in the PPP and COVID-EIDL programs occurred in the first nine months of those programs when, as the (inspector general) has often noted, the rush to get funds out led to unwise decisions to pull down anti-fraud guardrails.” Fraud in pandemic unemployment ...