Brian Bennett

Among President Trump's top advisors are Stephen K. Bannon, far right, and Stephen Miller, to Bannon's right.

Travel ban is the clearest sign yet of Trump advisers’ intent to reshape the country

August 22, 2019 at 2:56 a.m.

As havoc unfolded over the weekend following President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees coming into the country, some longtime Washington hands were alarmed by something else: the revamping of...

Members of the U.S. Border Patrol wait for President Donald Trump to speak to the staff of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Jan. 25, 2017.

The wall, deportations, sanctuary cities: What Trump’s orders mean, and what they don’t

August 22, 2019 at 2:53 a.m.

During his presidential campaign, no single promise electrified Donald Trump's supporters more than the pledge to build a "big, beautiful wall" all along the border with Mexico. Wednesday, President Trump...

Donald Trump is sworn as the 45th President of the United States by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Jan. 20, 2017.

‘America First,’ a phrase with a loaded anti-Semitic and isolationist history

August 22, 2019 at 2:49 a.m.

At the center of his foreign policy vision, Donald Trump has put "America First," a phrase with an anti-Semitic and isolationist history going back to the years before the U.S....

Immigrants lead hundreds protesting against President-elect Donald Trump in Los Angeles last week.

As soon as he is inaugurated, Trump will move to clamp down on immigration

August 22, 2019 at 2:47 a.m.

Aides are clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to take the first steps toward transforming the immigration system as soon as he takes office Friday, fulfilling a major campaign...

President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by his family, arrives at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017.

Trump alleges leaks by U.S. spy agencies, something ‘Nazi Germany would have done’

August 22, 2019 at 2:41 a.m.

President-elect Donald Trump amplified his already heated war with the intelligence community Wednesday, accusing agents of leaking an ugly and unsubstantiated report about him while comparing the tactic to Nazis....

The declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process.

U.S. intelligence report doesn’t say whether Russian hacking helped elect Trump

August 22, 2019 at 2:37 a.m.

Although a blockbuster new U.S. intelligence report concludes that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidency, it didn't weigh in on whether Moscow's covert cyberhacks...

President-elect Donald Trump attends the 117th Army-Navy football game with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Baltimore on Dec. 10, 2016.

Tensions erupt between Trump and the CIA over Russia’s hacking during the 2016 campaign

August 22, 2019 at 2:17 a.m.

Tensions between Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence officials boiled over Saturday as Trump's transition team mockingly compared a secret CIA assessment that Russia tried to sway the U.S. election in...

The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

Hijackers’ time in California at center of allegations of Saudi government involvement in 9/11

August 22, 2019 at 1:20 a.m.

With Congress opening the way for Sept. 11 families to sue Saudi Arabia, victims' families are focusing on an unproven theory that a Saudi consular official in Los Angeles and...

Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, shown in Hong Kong in 2013.

With ‘Snowden’ set to open, House panel calls him a ‘serial exaggerator and fabricator’

August 22, 2019 at 1:08 a.m.

Edward Snowden exaggerated his resume, stole test answers and failed training on U.S. surveillance law before he copied an estimated 1.5 million classified documents from the National Security Agency, according...

Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus.

U.S. intelligence says Islamic State is weakening after series of defeats

August 22, 2019 at 12:52 a.m.

The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies now view Islamic State as a shrinking and increasingly demoralized military force, a sharp shift from the seemingly invincible extremist army that declared an...

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