At his confirmation hearing to serve as the nation’s top intelligence officer, Jay Clayton dodged questions about whether the White House ordered him to send subpoenas to New York Times [...]
Supporters of the Prairieland defendants display pamphlets and artwork after their sentencing outside a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse on June 23, 2026. Photo: Matt Sledge/The Intercept Seth Stern is the director [...]
A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from [...]
Ousted FBI Director James Comey listens during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty [...]
Two U.S. officials who died in Mexico on Sunday worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, two sources told The Intercept. They are among the first known fatalities of President Donald [...]
The Pentagon continues to peddle misleading U.S. casualty figures from the Iran war, even after The Intercept reported on what one defense official called a “casualty cover-up.” Pressed for a [...]
Head of the White House Faith Office Paula White-Cain sings as she stands next to Donald Trump and other religious leaders during a National Day of Prayer event in the [...]
Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Grapevine, Texas, US, March 27, 2026. Photo: Shelby Tauber / Bloomberg via Getty Images When [...]
The Trump administration’s war on Iran is reckless and ill-planned, four government officials briefed on the attacks told The Intercept. Even in classified briefings, Trump administration officials laid out no [...]
Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb 23, 2026. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images The Trump administration is embracing an [...]
The library is seen through a window at the Rensselaer County Jail in Troy, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Photo: Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images Jeremy Busby is [...]
President Donald Trump said in a radio interview that the United States had knocked out “a big facility” last week as part of his administration’s ongoing pressure campaign to topple [...]
Bari Weiss speaks onstage during Book Club Event With Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024 in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press The media world [...]
U.S. forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, two government sources familiar with the matter told The Intercept. President Donald Trump called the boat the [...]
The United States is formulating plans to feed a massive military presence in the Caribbean almost to the end of President Donald Trump’s term in office — suggesting the recent [...]
The Trump administration is planning to detain immigrants at a Georgia jail that became known for allegations that women detained there were subjected to non-consensual gynecological procedures, multiple sources told [...]
Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the White House in Washington on Sept. 25, 2025. Photo: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images Matthew Whitley is a writer, poet, and co-editor [...]
Democrat J.D. Scholten, a two-term Iowa state House representative and former candidate for Iowa’s fourth congressional district, announced Monday that he intends to withdraw from the Iowa Senate primary, ending [...]
Zohran Mamdani participates in an endorsement event in New York City on July 10, 2025.Photo: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of Stakes Is High: [...]
The Trump administration succeeded in its quest to deport the eight men it imprisoned on a U.S. military base in Djibouti to violence-plagued South Sudan on Saturday, expanding its globe-spanning [...]
The brief war between Israel, Iran, and the United States appears to be over for now. But for many Iranian immigrants to the United States, a new period of uncertainty [...]
As Democrats try to push forward legislation that would block further strikes on Iran, one measure advanced by House leadership could actually strengthen the Trump administration’s justification for subsequent attacks, [...]
People protest against ICE’s arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil outside the Newark courthouse on March 27, 2025, in Newark, N.J. by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Donald Trump’s administration moved [...]
Earlier this month, while hunting for Columbia University students to deport over their ties to Gaza protests, the Trump administration convinced a federal judge to sign off on search warrants [...]
Protesters demonstrate in front of police along the perimeter of the Columbia University campus in NYC on April 30, 2024. Photo: Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP Columbia University could hardly have [...]
The “Department of Government Efficiency” claimed to have saved the American taxpayer nearly $232 million by canceling an IT contract for the Social Security Administration. They were only off by [...]
Mansour Abo Kareem stood in front of piles of rubble where his home used to be and condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently expel all Palestinian from Gaza. [...]
Bethany Bourgeois-George unlocked the door to the aluminum mailbox of her downtown Vancouver condo on the morning of August 16, 2021, only to find the letter she had been dreading: [...]
Earlier this month, a group of professors from the normally stodgy world of tax law wrote to President Joe Biden calling on him to free the IRS contractor who leaked [...]
After two elections where he bucked Ohio’s rightward trend, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is clinging to the narrowest of polling leads. If he loses to unpopular car salesman Bernie Moreno [...]
Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020. Photo: AFP via Getty Images [...]