Since Kash Patel became FBI Director in 2025, the Bureau has portrayed its mission under the Trump administration as an aggressive, results-driven campaign against violent crime, transnational fraud, child exploitation, terrorism, and drug trafficking.
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From the ancient hill where Athenians invented democracy, America’s top diplomat told a weary continent it stands at a crossroads between renewal and decline.
FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announced their engagement Sunday, pairing a private milestone with a public joke that played on the very office that has made their relationship a target.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to deploy its intelligence and cyber capabilities against foreign interference in the November 2026 midterm elections.
A directive to American diplomats to stop writing “artificial intelligence” and start writing “super intelligence”. What are the consequences?
A picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words. In Romania this week, two pictures were worth a constitution, a foreign policy, and whatever dignity still clung to the idea of a state.
Days after banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the press pool, the White House has gone live with “Trump TV,” a round-the-clock stream of administration footage.
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, China’s president urged the bloc to take on a peacemaking role in the Middle East war.
In remarks that quickly drew attention in Bucharest, Russia’s top diplomat cited the case of Calin Georgescu as an example of what he described as the West suppressing democracy.
The two presidents spoke for an hour on Tuesday in what the Kremlin called a “constructive and frank” conversation.

