On March 16, 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
When the two planes crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in the Big Apple on September 11, 2001, the entire nation was shocked to its core and seemed to have collapsed. Almost instantly, ...
William F. Buckley, a leading voice for the modern conservative movement, founded National Review in 1955 to publish ...
The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service spoke by phone for the first time ...
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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
Congress has approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through September 30 and avert a shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline. Overall, the measure would boost defense spending by $6 ...
The House passed a bill Tuesday, 217-213, that would keep the government funded through September. The measure next heads to the Senate where prospects for passage remain uncertain as the threat ...
The 217-213 vote to approve Republicans’ stopgap bill saw just one GOP defection, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and now amplifies pressure on Senate Democrats to decide whether to back the ...