The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds to a single Atlanta address for a total of $46,378,040 in 2011 — and each of the refunds averaging over...   Read More

The growth of federal regulations over the past six decades has cut U.S. economic growth by an average of 2 percentage points per year,...   Read More

Americans’ confidence in the House and Senate has dropped so low that it now ranks as the least popular societal institution in U.S. history,...   Read More

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the US Government, after it became known that the National Security Agency has routinely received phone call data...   Read More

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by...   Read More

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), already embroiled in a high-profile scandal over its operations, is looking to acquire surveillance equipment that includes cameras concealed...   Read More

To hide his role in championing the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to collect of Americans’ phone data and other...   Read More

A 29-year-old computer technician for a U.S. defense contractor leaked details of a top-secret American program that collects vast streams of phone and Internet...   Read More

Many Americans, including some of Barack Obama’s critics, take his word that his administration opposes torture. With fanfare, two days after occupying the Oval...   Read More

A Chippewa Cree tribal leader, a former state lawmaker and three others used a fake billing system and a shell company to pocket hundreds...   Read More