Trump has put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge of a new Super Intelligence Force, giving AI policy to the head of U.S. intelligence.
Flávio Bolsonaro edged Lula in Brazil’s first round, 47% to 45%, forcing an Oct. 25 runoff shaped by his father’s coup sentence, a pardon pledge and Trump.
U.S. B-1 bombers have left RAF Fairford after a suspected terror plot. Police found petrol but no bombs, and six arrests have produced no charges so far.
MI5 says a Chinese institute funds research for Beijing’s spy agency, and that 100+ UK academics took part. Its alert also changes their legal exposure.
Jordan confirms it holds a suspected ShinyHunters member after the FBI breach. Who he is and his cooperation rest on Reuters’ sources. What’s known so far.
The U.S. State Department’s declassified record of Egypt’s 1973 Bab el-Mandeb blockade, from Golda Meir’s first complaint to the quiet deal that ended it.
State’s own watchdog found the department didn’t fully weigh civilian harm in 2019 emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The details are still withheld.
Yemen’s government launched an offensive on the Houthis. U.S. officials say the military gives Saudi Arabia targeting help. Congress fought this in 2019.
The FBI’s five COINTELPRO programs, 1956 to 1971, in one table: dates, 3,247 proposals, 2,370 approved actions, and where Senate and FBI records disagree.