Bob Drogin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects a Korean People's Army submarine.

‘The Great Successor’ paints a macabre portrait of Kim Jong Un

August 29, 2019 at 8:50 p.m.

Both inherited a family business and are surrounded by sycophants. Both make endless false claims, blame others for their mistakes and have been lampooned — and vastly underestimated — by...

Richie Compton, left, and Erik Winger kneel at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting outside of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, 2016.

Investigators look at possible Disney trip by Orlando shooter

August 21, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

The FBI is seeking to determine whether Omar Mateen, the man who killed dozens of people in an Orlando nightclub shooting, scouted out other gay venues or other potential targets...

Robert Gates rages against the political machine in his memoir, ‘Duty’

June 17, 2018 at 10:41 p.m.

During 41/2 years as secretary of Defense under presidents George W. Bush and Obama, Robert M. Gates was widely lauded as a shrewd national security mandarin who had seen it...

Ex-CIA worker from Maryland revealed as source of NSA leaks

August 19, 2019 at 9:17 a.m.

A British newspaper has identified a 29-year-old former Marylander as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs and revived debate...

NSA contract analyst says he leaked surveillance documents

December 24, 2018 at 8:28 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Calling America's spying capabilities "horrifying," a 29-year-old former CIA employee revealed himself Sunday as the primary source of unauthorized disclosures of highly classified U.S. telephone and Internet surveillance...

Defense contractor Edward Snowden revealed spy programs 'to inform public'.

NSA contract analyst says he leaked surveillance documents

November 3, 2021 at 11:18 p.m.

Va. families struggle to understand sons’ odyssey

August 22, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.

he bungalow-turned-mosque has no sign out front. It sits behind a Firestone tire store and across from a busy Dunkin' Donuts in a working-class neighborhood of modest homes in northern...

‘Lion of U.S. Senate’ laid to rest

August 22, 2021 at 2:13 p.m.

As a soft twilight fell over the nation's capital, Sen. Edward Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday in a simple ceremony on a sloping site in Arlington National Cemetery. Kennedy's...

Emotion paves road to Boston

August 22, 2021 at 12:03 p.m.

In an extraordinary outpouring of public emotion, thousands of people in Massachusetts solemnly lined highways, overpasses and city streets Thursday to pay their last respects to Sen. Edward Kennedy, the...

In Hyannis, senator is fondly remembered as a ‘Capie’

August 22, 2021 at 12:56 p.m.

Along the impossibly quaint Main Street of this Cape Cod village, shop windows carried signs Wednesday reading "Thanks Ted, We Miss You," and salesclerks concluded purchases by clutching the hands...

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