The Environmental Protection Agency didn't ensure that states submitted accurate estimates of the number of lead pipes they had.

The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers as much as $128 million in extra payments, according to a new watchdog report out this week.

A watchdog agency investigating the origins of a failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form was unable to question top Trump administration officials because they either refused to cooperate or set unacceptable interview terms.

The Justice Department is announcing criminal charges against more than a dozen people from Florida to California in a series of Medicare scams that exploited coronavirus fears to bill tens of millions of dollars in bogus claims.

The former top FBI agent in Albany, New York, was a “skilled predator” who harassed eight women in one of the bureau's most egregious known sexual misconduct cases.

An audit has found gaps in a program intended to provide the U.S. with an early detection system of a biological weapon attack. It also left detection equipment exposed and unguarded, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security found. It was meant to reduce the time it takes to recognize an attack by monitoring for known biological agents. In 34 out of 35 jurisdictions, inspectors found BioWatch equipment could not always collect air samples to test because of security breaches or unplugging. The Homeland Security office said it would work with the organizations that host the equipment to improve security and planned to “enhance” biological detection capabilities.