North Korea is “unlikely” to give up its nuclear weapons, ISIS is still a threat, Russia continues to interfere in the US political process, and Iran is “not currently” developing a nuclear device.
At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats this morning (Jan. 29), committee chairman Richard Burr asked FBI director Christopher Wray what most concerned him about the weaponization of “big data.”
The US Treasury Department announced yesterday (Jan. 27) that it had ended sanctions on three companies controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of president Vladimir Putin. Sanctions on Russian energy giant EuroSibEnergo, aluminum producer UC Rusal, and Rusal’s parent company, En+ Group, were lifted after just 10 months, despite strong objections from members of both parties in Congress.
US special counsel Robert Mueller arrested Donald Trump’s longtime friend and ally Roger Stone on Friday (Jan. 25), charging him with obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, witness tampering, and making false statements.
US Customs and Border Protection, the 60,000-strong force that polices America’s borders, will award a $50 million contract to a British private security firm without first shopping around for a better price, as would normally be done.
As a caravan of Central American immigrants headed toward the southern US border last November, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) started stockpiling ammunition and riot gear for its officers.
Donald Trump declared today (Jan. 17) he was grounding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming trip to visit troops in Afghanistan “in light of the 800,000 Great American workers not receiving pay,” alluding to the expense of flying military aircraft there.
The security certificates authenticating more than 130 US government websites, including a subdomain at whitehouse.gov, have expired during the federal shutdown because the workers tasked with renewing them have been furloughed.
The largest group of unauthorized immigrants headed to the US comes from Central America’s “Northern Triangle,” which spans parts of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The majority of those leaving are from Guatemala, and the highest percentage of Guatemalans are from the department of Huehuetenango.
Paul Whelan, the Michigan man detained in Moscow and accused of being a spy, has now been charged criminally, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
The family of Paul Whelan, the Michigan man detained in Moscow on suspicion of espionage, is in the dark about nearly every aspect of his legal situation, his brother told Quartz.
The US’s partial federal government shutdown, sparked after Donald Trump refused to sign a Congressional funding bill that didn’t include money for a border wall, is now in its 18th day, making it the longest since 1995.
Donald Trump will deliver a televised address at 9pm US eastern time tonight (Jan. 8), part of his ongoing attempt to pressure Democrats to approve more federal spending for his signature border wall.
As Donald Trump’s presidency ends its second year, the US has failed to spend most of the money already allocated for a wall on the Mexico border or build a single foot of new wall there.
As part of its ongoing remit to search out and stop illegal drug traffickers, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has placed hidden cameras in everything from streetlights to traffic barrels to vacuum cleaners to road signs. Next up, the agency will be using an unspecified number of specially fitted toolboxes to conduct surveillance.
Exactly one week after Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing the pay of 2.1 million federal civilian workers, hundreds of high-level Trump appointees, including members of his own cabinet, are set to get raises.
Just 16 days after a bipartisan group of US senators approved a resolution to end military support for Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the civil war in Yemen, the Trump administration is doing what appears to be exactly the opposite.
Rarely have American citizens been arrested for espionage on Russian soil. In 2013, US diplomat Ryan Fogle was apprehended in Moscow and deported after being accused of attempting to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy. In 2000, American businessman and former US Navy intelligence officer Edmond Pope was arrested in a Moscow hotel, for allegedly attempting to buy classified military secrets. Convicted by a Russian court on espionage charges, the first such ruling in four decades, Pope was sentenced to 20 years in prison (paywall) but released eight months later after a pardon from president Vladimir Putin, himself a former KGB operative.
An Alabama sheriff helped himself to at least $1.5 million in federal funds meant to feed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees housed in his jail, the Etowah County Detention Center, according to an investigation by AL.com.
During the week of Dec. 10, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the federal agency created after 9/11 to keep America’s airports safe, discovered 78 firearms that travelers were attempting to get past screening checkpoints. The guns were primarily 9mm semi-automatics, with a smattering of .38s, .22s, and .40-caliber Glocks. The TSA reports that 63 of the weapons were loaded, and 28 had a round chambered.
When US president Donald Trump ordered the government to shut down last week, it was the third shutdown since he took office in 2017—and the 21st since 1976, the year the modern congressional budget process was enacted.
Two weeks after he took over as commander of the USS Shiloh in June 2015, US Navy captain Adam M. Aycock punished a sailor for breaking curfew with an arcane sentence: three days in the brig while subsisting on nothing but bread and water.
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for ways to scour social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in its ongoing quest to catch tax cheats.
At loggerheads with Congress over funding his signature border wall, president Donald Trump shut down large swaths of the federal government at midnight on Friday (Dec. 21). Roughly 800,000 federal employees are affected, many of whom will remain on furlough without pay if the shutdown continues.
