There's a full plate of urgent issues awaiting President-elect Barack Obama and the next Congress. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' nonpartisan watchdog, listed 13 of them recently. Along with some obvious choices, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and oversight of the financial industry, the GAO included food safety. ...more

November 19, 2008

It will cost at least $1 billion more than the Bush administration expected to deploy advanced radiation detection equipment at the country's ports, government auditors said Monday. ...more

September 23, 2008

Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures. ...more

August 31, 2008

Four years ago, Boeing was the corporate villain, the powerful Chicago-based company cheated to win a lucrative contract to build tankers for the Air Force. An outraged Congress killed the deal and forced the Air Force to rebid the contract. Boeing was fined $615 million, CEO Phil Condit resigned and a Boeing executive and an Air Force procurement officer went to prison. ...more

July 4, 2008

An audit agency's recommendation that the Air Force reopen bidding on a contract to build a new generation of aerial refueling planes almost certainly means the Air Force will fail to put the planes into service starting in 2013, as planned, the service's departing civilian chief said Friday. ...more

June 21, 2008

The Legislature, with the support of Gov. Charlie Crist, last year forced counties like Pasco and Pinellas to scrap the touch-screen voting equipment they had just spent millions purchasing. Touch-screen voting was supposed to solve problems associated with punch-card balloting, which was supposedly the cause of the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential voting controversy in Florida. ...more

February 12, 2008

Touch-screen voting machines likely performed properly and were not to blame for the large number of undervotes in the District 13 congressional election in 2006, federal investigators said in a draft report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. ...more

February 7, 2008

Federal investigators on Monday began preparing for two weeks of testing of Sarasota County voting machines to see whether they were the cause of undervotes in Florida's disputed District 13 congressional election. ...more

November 27, 2007

Two top Yahoo officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive communist regime. ...more

November 7, 2007

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work. ...more

October 3, 2007