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Topline: Hello? Is anyone there? Not at California's Employment Development Department, where the state spent $4.6 million on 6,285 unused cell phones. The devices belong to employees who run th ...

Topline: A then-employee at the City of Austin's energy utility allegedly paid $980,000 in taxpayer funds to fictional companies with bank accounts belonging to his family members, according to ...

Topline: A California state employee recently took one of the longest paid vacations in history. The unnamed worker stayed on paid leave for over two years after announcing his plan to retire an ...

Even as many scholars and pundits deny the differences between the sexes and vastly expand the concept of gender, society is increasingly dividing along these clear and simple lines. Mountains o ...

Key facts: Congress' approval rating hit a then-record low of 11% in 2011, but for some reason the U.S. still thought it was qualified to tell foreign politicians how to boost their popularity.

Topline: There are few families that need an advertisement to remind them to purchase a Christmas tree in December but, in 2011, officials at the Department of Agriculture decided an expensive marketi ...

Topline: Millions of Americans watched the ball drop in Times Square on TV last night, including federal government employees out of the office to celebrate the New Year. Back in 2010, that left the g ...

Topline: In 2006, Congress' guidelines for Homeland Security's grant program for firefighters mostly ignored the most obvious function of a fire department: putting out fires. Only 5% of t ...

Topline: In 1917, Congress made private donations to universities tax-deductible to give alumni an incentive to support the education of future students. Lawmakers probably didn't plan on helpin ...

Topline: A Massachusetts man who had already been evicted from 12 apartments for refusing to pay rent received $23,000 in taxpayer-funded rental assistance in 2024, according to reporting from NBC10 B ...