Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her role, a spokesperson for the USDA has said.

Although it is standard procedure to kill flocks with the outbreak of bird flu, posts on social media twisted the truth.

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

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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

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 ...