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FBI Director Kash Patel sought to tie together the actions of a group of people President Donald Trump blamed for investigations into him.

How the drive to find a conspiracy against Trump rocked the Justice Department

Trump’s FBI director wanted to pull together a series of actions by the president’s opponents into a single “grand conspiracy”. The first the public heard of it was through Joe Rogan’s podcast.

  • Devlin Barrett in Washington

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Ted Turner in 1996.

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could pause his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for all.

  • Maureen Dowd
Former FBI director James Comey.

Ex-FBI chief charged with threatening the life of the president over Trump seashell post

The indictment charges Comey with “knowingly and wilfully” making a threat to “take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon” Trump over a social media post he shared showing shells on a beach arranged to read “86 47”.

  • Alanna Durkin Richer and Eric Tucker
Kash Patel was filmed drinking a beer in the locker room after the US men’s team won gold at this year’s Winter Olympics. (source: X/@WilliamTurton)
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FBI director’s viral hockey celebration

Kash Patel was filmed drinking a beer in the locker room after the US men’s team won gold at this year’s Winter Olympics. (source: X/@WilliamTurton)

An F-15E Strike Eagle like the one shot down in Iran.

How a group of commandos pulled off risky night mission to extract US airman from deep inside Iran

An air force officer of an F-15E Strike Eagle shot down by Iran spent a day in hostile territory with little more than a pistol for protection.

  • Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Greg Jaffe and Julian E. Barnes
Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro.

‘The Crab’: The Castro who could end communism in Cuba

The grand-nephew of Fidel Castro is shaping up to be the man who could end his family’s decades-long stalemate with the US – and perhaps the Castro dynasty altogether.

  • Benedict Smith
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran in January, just before the crackdown started.

Israel thought it could spur rebellion inside Iran. That hasn’t happened

Donald Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.

  • Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
Smoke and flames rising from airstrikes on Tehran on Saturday night (local time).

US ground invasion of Iran may not be enough to oust Iran’s regime: report

The findings of a classified report by the National Intelligence Council have raised doubts about Donald Trump’s stated objective of electing the next supreme leader of Iran.

  • John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Israel hacked Tehran traffic cameras to spy on Khamenei

Israeli spies spent years watching Iran’s late supreme leader and his entourage on the streets of their own capital city.

  • Allegra Mendelson
A satellite image shows heavy damage to Khamenei’s compound in Tehran.

How the CIA pinpointed – and doomed – a gathering of Iranian leaders

Shortly before the US and Israel were poised to launch an attack on Iran, the US spy agency zeroed in on the location of perhaps the most important target: the country’s supreme leader.

  • Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman, Eric Schmitt and Tyler Pager