CIA
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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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
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- Trump's White House
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
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)
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
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- Cuba
‘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
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
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
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
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