NASA recently canceled a launcher development project after spending $1.4 billion on it, with more money still owed the developer.
School vouchers for Utah parents ended up making high-end purchases allegedly to support extracurricular activities.
In 2012 Baldwin County in Alabama used a half-million-dollar federal grant to buy surveillance cameras that were too smart to use.
The successors to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) share their plans for the path forward.
Medicare paid hundreds of millions for claims for hospice care that likely never took place and in any case had no proper referral.
Iran doesn't have to close the Strait of Hormuz to raise the price of oil, but only to give the appearance of the ability to close...
USAID stored $2.9 million worth of super cereal that turned out to be rotten, and $10 million of food that was due to expire.
Federal employees and retirees owed more than six billion dollars in unpaid taxes as of 2024. House Oversight Chairman James Comer is on it.
Providing venture capital - seed money - directly to firms working on "desired" products, is a new program, with new risks for taxpayers.
Almost 100 retired county workers on Long Island have been double dipping on health insurance that two different counties provide.