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Topline: In 2012, officials in Baldwin County, Alabama, used a $500,000 federal grant from the Department of Justice to install nearly 200 surveillance cameras in three county courthouses. The pricey ...

Topline: Medicare paid an estimated $255.1 million in claims for hospice patients who either did not have a documented terminal illness or never signed a statement electing to receive hospice care, ac ...

Topline: More than 571,000 current and retired federal employees owed $6.3 billion of unpaid federal taxes as of 2024, according to a new report from the Treasury's inspector general. Key facts:

Topline: As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten "super cereal" and $10 million of food that was going to expire i ...

Topline: The Utah state auditor found "wasteful and extravagant purchases" made with taxpayer-funded school vouchers during the 2024-25 school year, including trampolines, high-end gaming ...

Topline: A Missouri school superintendent made out with perhaps the best rate of pay in the history of public schooling. Salary: $249,167. Hours worked: Zero. The Francis Howell R-III School District ...

Topline: The Department of Veterans Affairs made $1 billion in improper payments from 2018 to 2024 while reimbursing veterans for travel to doctors' appointments, according to a review from the ...

The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 201 ...

Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of "cultural appropriation." Nutrition e ...

Topline: Plenty of Americans recharge their energy by curling up with a good book or watching reruns on television. But, in case anyone was unaware, the National Institutes of Health spent taxpayer do ...