Despite supporters' claims that the competition is biased against it, Boeing got what it wanted from newly released Pentagon guidelines for a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, according to the chief executive of rival bidder Northrop Grumman. ...more

August 15, 2008

The Iraqi government could end this year with as much as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus, based largely on ever-increasing oil revenue, congressional auditors say. ...more

August 6, 2008

The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fictitious sellers of wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims with only limited review, congressional investigators say. ...more

August 4, 2008

Appearing in the heart of Florida's Space Coast, Barack Obama said Saturday that he has decided to drop his long-standing proposal to help pay for his program for early childhood education by trimming the NASA budget. ...more

August 3, 2008

The federal government's consolidated terrorist watch list has become a central issue in the debate about how we can best secure our homeland. Unfortunately, myths about the watch list continue to grow in just about every report and retelling. ...more

July 28, 2008

The State Department insisted Friday it can handle the growing demand for passports, despite congressional investigators' findings that the agency has not overhauled the system to avoid a repeat of last summer's backlog fiasco. ...more

July 26, 2008

Most people who contribute to a retirement plan at work don't have a clue how much they pay in expenses. ...more

July 24, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver's licenses despite also having health issues that qualify for full disability payments, according to a federal report to be released Thursday. ...more

July 22, 2008

The chief executive of EADS said he is confident his company and U.S. partner Northrop Grumman Corp. will win a disputed $35 billion Pentagon Air Force tanker contract when the bidding process reopens. ...more

July 14, 2008

The Department of Defense is reopening the bitter competition for a $35 billion military aircraft program that likely would include replacing some of the 16 aging KC-135 tankers now flown out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. ...more

July 10, 2008