Five Decades Later, the Military Waste Machine Is Running Full Speed Ahead. By William D. Hartung.

At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction. By Laura Reiley

Lawsuit filed against Ken Paxton and former executives. Republican is already under felony criminal indictment over other allegations.

The website for Corporation Makers promises that owning a business can remain “your deep dark secret. Do you wish to own land or other assets without anyone becoming aware of it?” it advertises. By Matt Pearce.

The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc’s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China. It was well-timed, arriving on Thursday, April 30, during a tumultuous period for the Los-Angeles based maker of Barbie dolls. Barbie was bombing…

A raucous hearing on election fraud in the Arizona primary is still going on in Phoenix. As of this writing, the hearing was moved to a separate room and is currently in recess due to continued outbursts of protest in the gallery. Helen Purcell began the Arizona Election Fraud hearing by saying “I want to begin […]

An investigation by The New York Times raises questions about the league’s concussion research and its relationship with the tobacco industry. By Alan Schwarz, Walt Bogdanich and Jacqueline Williams. (Mar. 24)

Too many medical trials move their goalposts halfway through. A new initiative aims to change that

Officials are finally admitting the F-35 fighter has turned into a nightmare—but it’s too late to stop the $400 billion program now. By David Axe.

A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment against Hillsboro resident Winston Shrout, accusing him of defrauding U.S. financial institutions by issuing bogus documents and failing to file six years of income tax returns. The grand jury returned an indictment charging Shrout with 13 counts of making, presenting and transmitting fictitious financial instruments and six counts of willfully failing to file income tax returns. He's accused of making and issuing more...

From the start our dates were more like stakeouts. By Heidi Julavits.

The Pentagon’s top testing official has weighed and measured the F-35 and found it wanting. By Patrick Tucker.

By the time Wayne Simmons went on Fox News last March for what would end up being his final appearance, viewers knew what to expect. "This president clearly has absolutely no idea what he is talking about," Simmons said of President Obama's handling of ISIS. Simmons had made guest appearances on Fox more than a hundred times as a "former CIA operative," and certainly looked the part: white mustache, neck bulging out of his dress shirt...

A new report accuses the Pentagon of pulling the wool over taxpayers’ eyes. By Bryan Schatz.

Although the Joint Program Office maintains the F-35 program remains on track, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester recently raised concerns that the fifth-generation fighter jet’s software development could fall behind schedule. By Lara Seligman.

The Navy’s newest class of transport ships is currently undergoing maintenance to make the vessels seaworthy, after it was found that design compromises led to weakened hulls susceptible to damage by waves. By Ben Thompson.

Despite lacking access to key documents and personnel, the inspector general determined that nearly $43 million had been spent on a natural gas station that should have cost closer to $300,000. By Megan McCloskey.

For 13 years, a mother getting public assistance swore under penalty of perjury that she had no income or assets. The public paid her rent, provided food money and covered her son under Medicaid — at a total cost of $85,363, according to court records. Latashia Green failed to mention the $396,000 paid to her from a 2010 legal settlement, or the $10,000 a year she earned braiding hair, or the real estate she bought along the way, federal authorities allege.

Corporations are taking the retirement savings of elderly public employees and using them to inflate their stock prices so wealthy CEOs and their shareholders can enrich themselves at the expense of their companies.

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. Article dates from 2013.