Month: July 2021

By Brad Lendon, CNN US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that China’s claims and actions in the Indo-Pacific threaten the sovereignty of nations around the region while Washington is committed to building partnerships that guarantee the vital interest of all nations. “Beijing’s claim to the vast majority of the South China Sea has

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Kristen Holmes, CNN A Democratic-led House select committee says it has uncovered evidence of political interference by the Trump administration into the federal government’s coronavirus response last year, including attempts to alter or block data reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detailing the dire effects of the

By Christina Carrega Federal agents have arrested a man for allegedly sending threatening emails with derogatory slurs to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Thomas Patrick Connally Jr. was charged on Monday with threats against a federal official and interstate communication containing a threat to harm, according to the criminal complaint filed

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack at the Capitol held its first hearing on Tuesday with harrowing testimony from four officers who shared their stories of being attacked by the rioters. The three-hour hearing was the opening act for the committee that’s preparing to investigate all of the

By Zachary Cohen, CNN A group of bipartisan lawmakers is urging President Joe Biden to continue investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic until the intelligence community has a high degree of confidence in its conclusion about where and how it started, even if that effort exceeds the ongoing 90-day review set to end later

By Geneva Sands, CNN After coming into close contact with a Department of Homeland Security employee who later tested positive for Covid-19, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will work virtually this week, according to a department spokesperson. “The Secretary has no symptoms and has tested negative twice. Official DHS contact tracing is underway,” DHS Assistant

By Christina Carrega and Devan Cole, CNN A former intelligence analyst and military service member was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to three years and nine months in prison for leaking national classified defense information to a journalist, the Justice Department announced. Daniel Everette Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in March to illegally

By Katie Bo Williams and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Six months into Joe Biden‘s presidency, the intelligence community still can’t quite escape politics. Biden made his first formal remarks to staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday — an address at a moment of quiet but profound change for a workforce

By Kaitlan Collins, John Harwood, Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond and Kate Sullivan, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday changed its masking recommendations as it grows more concerned over the Delta variant of Covid-19, urging vaccinated people in certain areas of the country to resume wearing masks indoors in public areas.