The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”
President Trump has ordered a review of US foreign aid, leading to a suspension of assistance programs. The CIA now suggests COVID-19 likely emerged from a lab, and Trump hints at rejoining the WHO. Meanwhile,
The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a confirmation vote on Tuesday on John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA Director, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and defector to the Soviet Union, fired three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, striking President Kennedy as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Trump issued a flurry of executive orders and proclamations during his first few days back in the White House.
Republicans and Democrats praised the former lawmaker and intelligence official, who vowed not to use political loyalty tests at the CIA.
A former federal prosecutor and Texas Republican, Ratcliffe gained prominence as a congressman as a staunch defender of Trump.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the
A famed doctor who investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy discussed what the upcoming release of the assassination files may reveal.
Former President John F. Kennedy's grandson is upset with President Donald Trump's order to declassify files relating to his grandfather and great-uncle's assassinations.