The Release of a 1961 Plan to Break Up the CIA Revives an Old Conspiracy Theory About Who Killed JFK Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give...
Gabbard, Dogged by Syria Visit and Echoing Russian Disinfo, Approved to Take Helm of Intelligence Agencies The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Gabbard to the job of director of national intelligence, giving her the responsibility of...
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's Pick to Oversee US Spy Agencies, Clears Senate Committee A former Democratic congresswoman, Gabbard is one of Trump’s most divisive nominees, with lawmakers of both parties pointing...
Senate Confirms John Ratcliffe to Lead the CIA, Giving Trump His Second Cabinet Member At his Senate hearing last week, Ratcliffe said the CIA must do better when it comes to using technology such as artificial...
Trump's Pick for Top Pentagon Health Care Job Was Fired by CIA Keith Bass, President-elect Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon’s sprawling health care systems, was effectively fired by the...
An Ex-Green Beret Behind a Failed Venezuela Raid in 2020 Lashes Out at CIA and FBI A former Green Beret accused of plotting an invasion of Venezuela in 2020 to try to overthrow Nicolás Maduro lashed out at...
Judge Orders CIA Analyst Accused of Israel-Iran Leak Held Pending Trial The ruling by U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles overrules a magistrate who said last week that Asif Rahman, 34, of...
The CIA's 'Heart Attack Gun': A Cold War Weapon for Targeted Assassinations Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps...
What to Know About John Ratcliffe, Trump's Pick for CIA Director President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would appoint John Ratcliffe to serve as CIA director in his new...
'Havana Syndrome' Sufferers Face Challenges Navigating the Military Health System, Federal Watchdog Finds A Government Accountability Office review has found that while the Defense Department is supposed to provide medical care to...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...