Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her ...

Congress was not given the legally required 30-day notices about the removals, something that even a top Republican decried ...

An inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture—one of 17 inspectors general summarily fired by President Donald Trump on Jan. 25—was led out of her office on Jan. 27 by police ...

President Trump has fired several independent government watchdogs. They're now sharing warnings about what it could mean for ...

Inspectors general named in the lawsuit include those from the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education. Court documents filed in Washington ...

The ousted head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) said his removal by President Trump is among a series of firings that ...

Eight inspectors general whom Donald Trump fired from their federal agency watchdog posts are suing for their jobs back, ...

Eight inspectors general who were fired by Donald Trump are suing the federal government over what they allege are "unlawful and unjustified purported termination[s]." ...

A federal district court in Amarillo delivered a split ruling on a lawsuit filed by the horse industry and two horse owners ...

(USDA photo courtesy of Bailing Out Benji) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general says the agency has failed to inspect dog breeders in a timely fashion and failed to ensure that ...

Among the inspectors general, Phyllis Fong at the Agriculture Department was escorted out of the building by security agents after she refused to comply with her firing, sources familiar with the ...