U.S. sends more spies and intelligence assets into Cuba, a step officials say could pave the way for military action, POLITICO reports.
Jay Clayton is sworn in as director of national intelligence after refusing at his confirmation hearing to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election.
Senate confirms Manhattan prosecutor Jay Clayton as intelligence director hours after the acting chief announced a fifth round of staff cuts since June.
Acting intelligence director Pulte announces a fourth round of ODNI layoffs in five weeks while releasing declassified documents questioning 2020 voting technology.
ODNI quietly loses about 200 personnel to firings and reassignments since acting chief Pulte arrived June 2, shrinking the spy coordinator to about half its size.
Senate Intelligence panel advances Clayton for DNI on a 9-8 vote after he refused to say who won the 2020 election.
Secret Service investigates a polished Iranian video mapping Trump’s motorcade routes and naming assassination opportunities in Florida and New York.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
Senate hearings for Trump’s attorney general and spy chief nominees turn contentious in one day, spanning the weaponization fund, Epstein redactions, and 2020 election denial.
Minnesota begins distributing $40 million in rental aid to 11,000 residents after Operation Metro Surge detentions cost immigrant families jobs and breadwinners.
Former CIA Director Brennan sues the Trump administration to preserve records of its conspiracy investigation against him, saying officials branded him a criminal before charges.
A data exposure at Peter Thiel’s secretive Dialog group reveals personal records of a White House intelligence official and an active-duty officer in a special operations unit, prompting a Pentagon review.
The Trump administration lets Anthropic release its most powerful AI model to roughly 100 approved companies and agencies, claiming new authority to decide who gets frontier AI.
The administration asks OpenAI to limit its next model to government-approved partners before any public release, the first time Washington has preemptively restricted an AI model’s launch.
Acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte removes about 50 staff from the national intelligence office in his first days, gutting the directorate that coordinates all 18 U.S. spy agencies.
The NSA is losing access to an Anthropic AI model that Senator Mark Warner said broke into the agency’s classified systems within hours.
A Washington Post investigation reports that confidential memos appear to show former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s childhood guru secretly guiding her conduct in Congress.
Investors tied to Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family secretly bought into SpaceX before its record IPO, court records ProPublica sued to unseal show.
Trump cancels the Senate confirmation hearing for his national intelligence pick to force Congress to first confirm his personal lawyer as Manhattan U.S. attorney.
White House officials fear New York Times reporters obtained Situation Room recordings for a forthcoming book that quotes top-secret meetings verbatim.
Anthropic’s investor Amazon triggers Friday’s White House takedown of the AI firm’s new Fable model, calling it a security threat days after launch.
The Pentagon releases a third batch of UFO files it bills as transparency, though they show strange lights and no proof of alien craft.
Outgoing intelligence director Gabbard rescinds two reports that doubted foreign involvement in Havana Syndrome, reviving the adversary weapon theory a decade after symptoms emerged.
Trump picks Manhattan U.S. attorney Jay Clayton for intelligence chief as his interim choice of housing regulator Bill Pulte sinks surveillance law renewal.
Trump backs intelligence chief Pulte slashing agency jobs, saying his temporary status leaves him less shackled.
Trump says housing chief Pulte will not be his permanent intelligence director, days after bipartisan backlash over the acting appointment.
Trump names housing finance chief Pulte, who has no intelligence background, as acting director of national intelligence while he keeps running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Four Russian Kosmos military satellites maneuver into co-planar orbits within striking distance of a Finnish-American radar satellite supplying Ukraine with surveillance imagery.
National intelligence chief Gabbard resigns citing husband’s bone cancer, after months of exclusion from Iran war debates and the Maduro capture operation.
CISA contractor at Nightwing publicly exposed AWS GovCloud admin credentials, plaintext passwords, and internal CISA system access on GitHub for six months.
FBI seeks $36 million contract for nationwide license plate reader access across all 50 states and territories, no warrant required for queries.
U.S. military aircraft conducted 26 surveillance flights within 80 miles of Cuba since February, now encircling the island instead of passing by as in 2025
CIA Director Ratcliffe meets Cuban intelligence in Havana as DOJ signals imminent indictment of 94-year-old Raúl Castro over 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown.
DHS used 1930s customs law to demand Google hand over a Canadian man’s location and activity after he criticized ICE killings online.
DHS intelligence office tells watchdog it will fix smartphone security holes by January 2027 after audit found 76% of apps were banned.
Pentagon signs AI deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for classified military networks.
House passes 45-day FISA Section 702 extension after Senate rejected three-year renewal, with Wyden securing 15-day declassification deal on secret surveillance court opinion.
Treasury official who raised privacy objections to surveillance of Minneapolis Somali community payments expected to be nominated US representative to OECD.
Justice Department charges Fort Bragg special forces master sergeant in first U.S. prediction market insider trading case after $400,000 Polymarket profit on Maduro capture.
Justice Department agrees to pay Carter Page $1.25 million to settle 2016 surveillance lawsuit, a month after paying Flynn over $1 million.
DOJ withdraws grand jury subpoenas in Brennan probe hours after installing Trump loyalist Joe diGenova, who called Brennan a conspiracy “head” on TV.
OMB contradicts its own federal CIO, denies any policy process to grant agencies access to Anthropic’s Mythos.
DOJ installs Trump loyalist Joe diGenova to run Florida “grand conspiracy” probe targeting intelligence officials and prosecutors.
Senate clears FISA extension through April 30 after 20 House Republicans block Johnson’s longer surveillance renewal including warrant reforms.
Anthropic CEO meets White House chief of staff Wiles as OMB moves to give federal agencies access to Mythos, routing around Pentagon blacklist.
Justice Department removes career prosecutor leading Brennan probe after she resisted pressure to quickly charge former CIA director and Trump critic.
White House app shares user data with third parties including a Russia-founded company while its privacy disclosure claims it collects nothing.
FBI labels breach of its surveillance system a “major incident” after China-linked hackers accessed phone monitoring data and investigation subjects’ personal information.
Iranian drone strike on U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused far more damage than disclosed, hitting the CIA station and burning for half a day.
