WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many states have used funds from the $863 billion U.S. economic stimulus plan to help give a rising number of poor families emergency cash assistance, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday.
From June 2008 to June 2009, the number of families receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to pursue wealthy tax cheats.
The Internal Revenue Service said it started a total of 4,121 criminal investigations in 2009 ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he "removed himself" from two ethics probes of state Governor David Paterson.
Cuomo, who is expected to run for governor, named Judith Kaye, the state's former top judge, to oversee inquiries into whether Paterson, a fellow Democrat ...More
DENVER (Reuters) - A member of a Denver-area Crips street gang was convicted on Thursday in the 2007 murder of Denver Broncos football player Darrent Williams after an altercation at a local nightclub.
Willie D. Clark, 26, was convicted of first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting death of Williams, who was ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he would make an announcement at 3:45 p.m. EST on his investigation of the state police and the governor's office.
Governor David Paterson asked the Democratic attorney general to investigate whether he or the state ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More 12-year-olds in the United States admit to using potentially deadly inhalants to get high than have used marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens combined, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
Among this age group, alcohol was the only intoxicating substance used more than inhalants, according to data from ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered Sei whale, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, and the parent company of the popular restaurant The Hump in Santa Monica were charged late ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a U.S. immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting deaths of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Jeffrey Lehrmann, 38, pleaded guilty to covering up ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.
The new doubts come as President Barack Obama pressures Congress to produce legislation ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 program, the Pentagon's biggest acquisition ever, is crashing through a cost-growth threshold that will spark a thorough review of the program, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer told Congress on Thursday.
Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, said the average price ...More
