A New Report Says Trump Plans to Fire Dan Coats. Here’s What Made Their Relationship So Rocky.
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nine days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he compared American intelligence officers to Nazis. Since that inauspicious start, the intelligence community has been viewed as more foe than friend by a president more inclined than most to disagree with its…
Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and…
Richard Burr Says There’s No Evidence of Collusion. How Would He Know?
Senate intelligence committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) leaves a closed briefing on intelligence matters on Capitol Hill on December 4, 2018.Zach Gibson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr keeps saying his panel has found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016…
Trump Has Abandoned Human Rights in North Korea
President Donald Trump greets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore last year.Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump emerged from a landmark meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in June, he touted the brutal regime’s “tremendous potential”…
Paul Manafort Lied to Robert Mueller About Russian Contacts, Judge Rules
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about his contacts with a colleague who had suspected ties to Russian intelligence, activity that occurred while Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and continued into 2018. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…