The Senate passed an amendment Tuesday prohibiting the Defense Department from contracting with companies like Halliburton if they don't allow employees who have been victims of sexual assault the right to take their claims to court. More...

In 2006, Senate Republicans defeated a measure to heighten accountability in federal contracts -- including 25 of the very same Senators who voted to cut off ACORN. More...

The Defense Department's Inspector General examined electrocution deaths of soldiers and contractors in Iraq that have been blamed on shoddy wiring by Houston-based private contractor KBR. It found numerous problems on the part of the company and the military. More...

Already in legal trouble for exposing employees to toxic chemicals, shoddy wiring, human trafficking and rape, the Houston-based military contractor is now accused of infringing on workers' religious freedom. More...

A U.S. appeals court decides that the military, and not a private contractor, was actually in charge of a fuel convoy when an accident left a U.S. soldier with severe brain damage. More...

Facing mounds of hazardous trash in need of disposal and lacking proper incinerators, private contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan burned the stuff in big open pits -- and they're now accused of sickening troops, contractors and civilians. More...

The ongoing controversy surrounding military contractor KBR took another turn this week. The latest development relates to a story Facing South helped break involving the deaths of several U.S. military personnel from faulty electrical work. More...

The ongoing controversy surrounding military contractor KBR took another turn this week. The latest development relates to a story Facing South helped break involving the deaths of several U.S. military personnel from faulty electrical work. More...

A by-the-numbers look at corporate tax-dodging. More...

Two U.S. Senators have written a letter to the Defense Department and U.S. Army demanding answers about the Houston-based contractor's role in knowingly exposing soldiers to a deadly cancer-causing chemical in Iraq. More...

The Houston-based contractor under fire for the electrocution deaths of U.S. soldiers lands a multimillion-dollar deal to build the Army a power plant and electrical distribution system at a military camp in Iraq. More...

A Texas-based company already fighting a lawsuit over human trafficking is again under scrutiny after Asian workers who paid dearly for jobs in Baghdad were left unemployed, trapped inside a guarded compound and facing deportation. More...