The US Transportation Department's Inspector General has opened an investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval of Boeing's 737 Max planes which were involved in two deadly crash just five months apart, The Wall Street Journal said in a report.   The...

My 2006 book, “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates,” was intended as a work of investigative journalism.   But many of its more affluent readers embraced it as a “how to” guide. For years afterward,...

A former director of the technology giant Cisco Systems, Prithviraj R. Bhikha, has been charged in a $9.3 million fraud using shell companies, according to federal prosecutor David L. Anderson.   He was arrested at the San Francisco International Airport on March 1.   Bhikha...

My eyes narrowed when the woman on the voice message told me to call about my “Top Doctor” award.   They needed to “make sure everything’s accurate” before they sent me my plaque, she said.   It was a titillating irony. I don’t have a medical degree, and I’m not a physician....

The Trump administration has continued pursuing a proposed nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia despite warnings from ethics lawyers and security experts, according to a congressional oversight committee.   The proposal gained traction in the early days of the administration because...