The mayor of a Mississippi city destroyed by a 2005 hurricane has been charged with more than a dozen counts of fraud for lying to get federal disaster money to repair his damaged beachfront house. An 11-page federal indictment charges Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr and his wife with stealing federal funds, filing false disaster assistance

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Nearly two years after Georgia passed a sweeping law to curb its fast-growing illegal immigration crisis, the measure has yet to be enforced because the legislature never provided the funds or resources to do it.  Intended to prevent illegal aliens from earning wages provided by taxpayer dollars, the 2006 Immigration Security and Compliance Act requires

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Employees at the multi billion-dollar federal agency that promotes science and national health spend substantial amounts of work hours viewing pornography on government computers yet a chunk of economic stimulus money is coming its way.   With an annual budget of $6.6 billion, the National Science Foundation (NSF) was created by Congress in 1950 to

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The mayor of Connecticut’s capital city has been charged with accepting a costly home renovation as a bribe from a city contractor who claims he would have been “black balled” from future public projects if he failed to perform the work.  Hartford Democrat Mayor Eddie Perez surrendered to state police today after getting slapped with

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New York’s high-profile health commissioner, a former U.S. Surgeon General, faces criminal prosecution for using her staff throughout seven years at the state’s Health Department as personal chauffeurs, shopping assistants and movers. A New York Inspector General’s report says that Dr. Antonia Novello billed the state’s taxpayers nearly $50,000 in overtime compensation for Health Department

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A radical leftist “community group” known for its fraudulent voter registration drives will get billions of taxpayer dollars under the Democrats’ massive spending bill, approved last week by the House Appropriations Committee. Scheduled for a full U.S. House of Representatives vote this week, President Barack Obama’s controversial trillion-dollar economic recovery package was supposed to focus

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One of the most powerful Republicans in New York state politics has been federally indicted with a variety of corruption charges that could send him to jail for decades. The veteran lawmaker, majority leader of the New York Senate for nearly a decade and a half, has been charged with eight felonies for abusing his

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A three-judge panel rejected Democrat Al Franken’s request to block a lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s heated U.S. Senate election recount, which determined that Franken won by 225 votes. Arguing that that the recount process was flawed, Republican Norm Coleman contested the result and filed a lawsuit. Coleman says Democrat votes were counted twice in some precincts

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One day after President Barack Obama basked in the international media coverage of his Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay prison, a major newspaper reports that a one-time detainee became an Al Qaeda leader who masterminded a U.S. Embassy bombing after being released. The alarming report comes days after the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed

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The government agency prohibited by Congress from conducting crowd estimates at major events officially adopted a local newspaper’s inflated figure for this week’s presidential inauguration. The National Park Service proudly evaded the law to report that 1.8 million people attended Barack Obama’s inauguration, a figure questioned by several reputable sources including a crowd counting expert

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