Obama fires AmeriCorps's Inspector General for investigating his friend
• APPresident Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector
general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs
and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.
Obama's move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star, into the misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group that Johnson headed.