Sunday Topics: Kavanaugh accusation, Newsom veto, LAPD spies, Sackler scandal, Border Patrol morale

By Robert A. Vella News topics for this Sunday include a previously unreported accusation of sexual misconduct against U.S. Supreme Continue reading →

How a stupid ‘weather forecast’ turned into a full-blown political scandal, plus today’s other news

By Robert A. Vella It all began with an egomaniacal president interjecting himself into official weather forecasts for a powerful Continue reading →

Asylum ban blocked, spy extracted, refugees denied, NOAA investigation, gun control poll, climate news

By Robert A. Vella A federal judge has ruled that an injunction blocking the Trump Administration’s ban on asylum applications Continue reading →

C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda

WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2010, Afghan officials struck a deal to free an Afghan diplomat held hostage by Continue reading →

Nemtsov murder: Zaur Dadayev confession ‘forced’

One of men charged with the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov confessed under duress, a member of Russia’s Continue reading →

In Feb. 2008, the U.S. and Israel illegally conspired to assassinate a Hezbollah leader in Syria

By Robert A. Vella The Washington Post reported on Friday that the CIA and Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad conspired Continue reading →

FBI lured suspect with fake Web page, but may have leveraged media credibility

News outlets and privacy advocates reacted sharply Tuesday to the revelation that the FBI in 2007 tricked a school-bombing suspect Continue reading →

In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis

WASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a Continue reading →