• WATCH: Labor officials testify on how the government is protecting workers from COVID-19

    WATCH: Labor officials testify on how the government is protecting workers from COVID-19

    May 28, 2020 02:17 PM EST

    ... the organization tasked with protecting our health and safety," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. A group of Senate Democrats asked the Labor Department's inspector general to investigate OSHA's inspections and citations related to COVID-19. The lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also want the ...

  • Trump opposition throws surveillance legislation in doubt

    Trump opposition throws surveillance legislation in doubt

    May 27, 2020 11:19 PM EST

    ... not something to play politics with." The statements underscored the tortuous process Congress has faced in renewing the surveillance powers in the wake of an inspector general report that documented serious errors and mistakes in how the FBI used its authorities during the Russia investigation. Those problems included errors and ...

  • Graham calls Rosenstein as first witness in Russia inquiry

    Graham calls Rosenstein as first witness in Russia inquiry

    May 27, 2020 10:07 PM EST

    ... his first months on the job, Rosenstein also signed off on renewing the final application to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded in a December report that the investigation, which started in July 2016 during the Obama administration, was opened for a ...

  • News Wrap: Afghan government begins releasing Taliban prisoners

    News Wrap: Afghan government begins releasing Taliban prisoners

    May 26, 2020 10:50 PM EST

    ... Chinese army garrison in Hong Kong said today that his troops will firmly enforce Beijing's orders.Back in this country, the Pentagon's deputy inspector general, Glenn Fine, resigned weeks after he was removed as overseer of pandemic relief spending. In a brief statement, he praised the watchdog role ...

  • WATCH: HHS watchdog who found testing shortages testifies that Trump barbs haven't deterred her

    WATCH: HHS watchdog who found testing shortages testifies that Trump barbs haven't deterred her

    May 26, 2020 02:41 PM EST

    Trump called the report, based on a late March survey of 323 hospitals nationwide, "just wrong” and suggested that its conclusions were skewed by politics. “Give me the name of the inspector general,” Trump told reporters. “Could politics be entered into that?” Trump later dismissed the report on Twitter as ...

  • WATCH: NASA holds presser on upcoming SpaceX flight test

    WATCH: NASA holds presser on upcoming SpaceX flight test

    May 21, 2020 09:54 PM EST

    ... and Boeing could be flying astronauts by now if Congress had provided more funding early on. The contracts with NASA are worth billions. NASA's inspector general has estimated the per-seat cost for SpaceX at $55 million, while the price of a Russian Soyuz seat has averaged $80 million ...

  • $1.3 billion awarded for border wall, largest contract yet

    $1.3 billion awarded for border wall, largest contract yet

    May 21, 2020 02:10 PM EST

    ... of Congress raised concerns in December after Fisher was awarded a $400 million contract for border wall construction. Within two weeks, the defense department's inspector general had launched an investigation, which is ongoing, according to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, a critic who questioned whether the ...

  • May 20, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    May 20, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    May 20, 2020 11:58 PM EST

    Wednesday on the NewsHour, all 50 states have begun lifting restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Plus: The firing of a State Department inspector general investigating Mike Pompeo, a cyclone slams India and Bangladesh, child deportations during COVID-19, Brazil’s coronavirus crisis, modeling infectious ...

  • Pompeo says he didn't know fired IG was investigating him

    Pompeo says he didn't know fired IG was investigating him

    May 20, 2020 10:50 PM EST

    ... in order to protect an inspector general. But these officials who I'm talking to Judy saying this is a five-alarm fire inside the inspector general community. Current inspector generals are scared, the mood is negative. And the idea that inspector generals are there to speak truth to power ...

  • WATCH: Biden delivers graduation address at Columbia Law School

    WATCH: Biden delivers graduation address at Columbia Law School

    May 20, 2020 04:47 PM EST

    ... life that anyone has ever said about me."Also Tuesday, Biden was asked about Trump's firing of Steve Linick as the State Department’s inspector general. Some Republicans have defended the move, arguing that it was within the president's rights, but Biden and other Democrats say it is ...