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

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

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

Since avian flu arrived in the U.S., farmers have killed millions of birds affected by the disease; however, this is standard procedure.

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 ...

Inspectors general fired by President Donald Trump are suing to get their jobs back as watchdogs for waste and fraud at federal agencies.

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 ...

USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong ordered the mass extermination of healthy poultry in 2024, citing "mutating bird flu," in order to artificially inflate poultry and egg prices in the U.S. Rating: ...

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 ...

The eight inspectors general want a judge to declare their firings by email were "legally ineffective" and put them back to work.

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