Conservative defense contractor Erik Prince helped fund right-wing covert political operation
Prince’s role sheds further light on how a group of ultraconservative Republicans employed spycraft to try to manipulate the American political landscape.
Biden’s public statements did not reflect spy agencies’ warnings of Afghan military collapse
Warnings over the summer by American spy agencies raise questions about why Biden administration officials and military planners in Afghanistan seemed ill-prepared to deal with...
4 Saudi operatives who aided in the Khashoggi slaying received paramilitary training in U.S.
The fact that the government approved high-level military training for operatives who went on to carry out the grisly killing of a journalist shows how...
Trump was sicker with COVID-19 than acknowledged
President Donald Trump was sicker with COVID-19 in October than publicly acknowledged at the time, and officials, before he went to the hospital, believed he...
A riveting Islamic state story, told in a New York Times podcast, falls apart
The central figure in the 2018 podcast “Caliphate,” by The New York Times, was a fabulist who spun tales about killing for the Islamic State...
Behind the White House effort to pressure the CDC on school openings VIEW
The internal battle began in July when CDC officials began drafting guidance for parents. The overly cautious position angered President Trump, who found an ally...