GAO

Initial reports indicated an active shooter was in the area, but that was not immediately confirmed. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Government watchdog to investigate alleged ethics violations at EPA

Josh Siegel · September 8, 2017 7:13 pm

A review by the Government Accountability Office has found widespread, systemic problems in the U.S. Navy ships that are based in foreign ports, which it says has resulted in "declining ship conditions and a worsening trend in overall readiness." (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Burghart/U.S. Navy photo via AP)

National Security

Navy ships plagued by overworked, undertrained crews, GAO finds

Jamie McIntyre · September 6, 2017 8:05 pm

President Barack Obama speaks during a Memorial Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 25, 2015. Playing just below Obama in the Memorial Amphitheater are members of The President's Own, United States Marine Band. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Secrets

GAO tells military bands: Prove you boost patriotism, morale

Paul Bedard · August 10, 2017 6:53 pm

"The security and efficiency arguments for this are clear. What is not clear is why this project was suddenly halted, why Congress was not notified in advance, and what happens now," Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., will say at a morning hearing, according to an excerpt of his prepared remarks obtained by the Washington Examiner. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

John Barrasso to scold feds for quietly killing new FBI headquarters

John Siciliano · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

The TSA cited 178 documents supporting the policy, but GAO said only three were "valid evidence." (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Watchdog: Little evidence to support TSA’s ‘behavioral indicators’ screening process

Todd Shepherd · July 20, 2017 7:45 pm

Washington Secrets

GAO: $21 billion spent fighting ISIS

Paul Bedard · July 20, 2017 5:58 pm

The conservative group wants the EPA to hand over documents detailing its use of social media to promote the Obama administration's Waters of the U.S. Rule. (Wikipedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

Judicial Watch takes EPA to court over social media campaign

John Siciliano · June 28, 2017 10:53 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats cry foul over HHS promotion of health law

Robert King · June 14, 2017 9:39 pm

The new report indicates $1.2 trillion in improper payments have been made since 2003. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Federal government wasted $136 billion in 2015

Melissa Quinn · June 13, 2017 4:24 pm

Sanctuary church resident Ingrid Encalada Latorre, right, sits with Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee outside a courtroom during a recess at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Golden, Colo., Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Latorre, an immigrant who has been living in a Denver church to avoid deportation, feared being arrested by federal immigration agents as she ventured out of her sanctuary to a court hearing Wednesday to try to stay in the United States. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

GAO: 437,000 deportation cases backlogged, hearings delayed to 2022

Paul Bedard · June 8, 2017 12:06 pm

Because some service members did not receive an honorable discharge - sometimes called a "bad paper" discharge - they could lose health benefits. (Nicolas Armer/dpa via AP)

GAO: Veterans discharged for misconduct need better mental health evaluations

Todd Shepherd · May 16, 2017 8:58 pm

Nearly all of the cross-border tunnels were discovered in the border regions from Arizona to California, and GAO said 80 percent of the tunnels were "sophisticated and interconnecting." (AP)

Border assault: DHS detected dozens of tunnels, hundreds of aircraft and boat incidents since 2011

Todd Shepherd · May 1, 2017 9:10 pm