More than 800,000 people who took out car loans from Wells Fargo were charged for auto insurance they did not need, and some of them are still paying for it, according to an internal report prepared for the bank’s executives.

A congressional information technology staffer was arrested Monday evening before a scheduled flight for Lahore, Pakistan, and charged with bank fraud in connection with a $165,000 loan from the congressional Federal Credit Union, authorities said.

You shouldn’t trust them with your spine or any other part of your body. By Yvette d’Entremont.

The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. By Michael P. Hughes.

How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king. By Jacob Mikanowski.

Cost to finish production rises again. By Dan Grazier.

Doctor Gorka does not have time for you haters! He is busy doing…something important! By Five Dollar Feminist.

Ari Rinkus was convicted of two felonies, owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to his victims, and has a documented habit of lying. But he’s got one big thing going for him: a wife with an important job at Donald Trump’s favorite retreat. And Rinkus is playing that for all it’s worth.

It’s not easy to evict someone in California. Usually that’s a good thing. By Ian Gordon. (Dec. 29, 2016)

A law enforcement sting in Riverside County uncovered thousands of pounds of used bottles and cans being smuggled into California where they were expected to be cashed in for close to $20,000 in state recycle fees. Officers pulled over tractor trailers for four days last month on Highway 95.

The JSF is a terrible fighter, bomber and attacker — and unfit for aircraft carriers. By Dan Grazier. (Mar. 31, 2017)

Step aside, ATM skimmers. This new attack empties out all the cash in minutes.

A look inside the hunt to catch one of the country’s biggest con men. By Daniel Fromson.

On the day a mother of two told a consultant she could not move her right leg and ankle and had serious back pain, a private investigator videoed her jogging across a Dublin street, the Circuit Civil court has been told. Circuit Court President, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, said that Stephen Bothma, of Core Group Investigations, had also videod Esther Lamidi getting into her car without “any bother or restriction of movement.”

Wine authenticator Maureen Downey shares a few tips on telling a faux Bordeaux or a sham champagne from the genuine article. By Bernice Chan.

Praepitcha Smatsorabudh, a woman who made more than $1 million in a multi-year scheme in which she purchased designer purses from department stores, then returned counterfeit versions to get her money back, has been sentenced to over two years in prison.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive military program in the world with a total cost of more than $1 trillion. Now, a new Pentagon report suggests that the futuristic fighter jet still has hundreds of deficiencies and won’t be ready for ready for full combat testing until 2019. By Michael Nunez.

At the recent 2017 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meeting in Chicago, Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton described the American healthcare system as “optimally designed for rent-seeking and very poorly designed to improve people’s health…” By Maureen Meehan.

Republicans denied seven million their right to vote, and no one seems to care. By Thom Hartmann, Richard Greene.

OneWest Bank repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws, according to a previously undisclosed 2013 memo from top state prosecutors. By David Dayen.