Senators Wyden and Schiff and 23 groups demand the administration release a secret court ruling faulting warrantless searches of Americans before Congress renews Section 702.
National Intelligence Director Clayton warns Rubio that Iran’s lethal plots against Americans abroad have reached advanced stages, as the State Department weighs embassy staffing changes.
US resumes warning Ukraine of Russian ballistic missile strikes after last week’s cutoff, Zelenskyy says, as Trump again blames him for no deal.
Federal judge tosses ex-CIA Director Brennan’s bid to preserve “grand conspiracy” probe records as premature, noting his claim investigators who doubted the case were removed.
Former senior CIA official pleads guilty to stealing about $194 million through fake government entities, buying 298 gold bars and luxury real estate.
Trump names intelligence director Clayton to lead an AI “Super Intelligence Force,” after tech leaders sought regulation and got a nonbinding self-regulation pact.
Justice Department files misconduct complaint against seven Minnesota federal judges who spoke to the New York Times about ICE’s 96 court-order violations in January.
US intelligence tells Congress Saudi Arabia hasn’t ruled out nuclear weapons, as Trump’s civilian nuclear deal could let it enrich uranium to 20%, officials say.
FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago ask Judge Cannon whether her gag order lets them testify to a grand jury probing officials who investigated Trump.
Hacked FBI data ties named staffers to China, Russia and human intelligence work, Reuters finds, as hackers demand the bureau retract a May statement.
Trump names Rubio full-time national security adviser after more than a year acting, the first to also serve as secretary of state since Kissinger.
Hackers claim they stole home addresses and spouses’ details for all FBI employees and applicants, then deface the bureau’s jobs site.
Trump loyalist diGenova subpoenas former CIA Director Brennan to a grand jury in Judge Cannon’s Fort Pierce courthouse one day before quitting the “grand conspiracy” probe.
National Security Agency plans its biggest overhaul in a decade, reorganizing around AI, China, cyber and combat support on a rollout starting next month, the Washington Post reports.
Justice Department subpoenas witnesses before a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district, escalating its year-long effort to prove the intelligence community conspired against Trump.
FBI seizes 3 internet domains Chinese government-backed hackers used to target NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate and 3 federal departments.
CIA Director Ratcliffe flies unannounced to Moscow as the US tells Ukraine to suspend strikes, the first US spy chief visit to Russia since 2021.
A covert CIA program was behind the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos that left eight men missing, the Washington Post reports.
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.