A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility.
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigati...
Mayor Cara Spencer placed the city’s emergency manager on administrative leave pending an investigation into the failure to warn residents....
Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it....
The event in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, came amid rising tensions between Israel and its foreign partners....
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power....
Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue....
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Andriy Portnov was a senior aide to Ukraine’s former president Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was ousted in a 2014 uprising over his alignment with Moscow....
The messages offer a glimpse at life deep undercover. Our correspondents break down four revealing exchanges....
The announcement of an escalation in the war came after a particularly deadly week for Palestinians in Gaza. Some of Israel’s allies denounced the move....
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The Kremlin has withstood pressure for an immediate cease-fire as a precondition for peace talks, but the Russian president’s push for normalizing relations with the United States appears in limbo....
A health report commissioned by President Trump has been causing angst within the agriculture industry who fear the chemicals will be identified as a driver of childhood disease....
The defense secretary’s decision to select his chief spokesman to lead the inquiry into the chaotic end of the war was highly unusual....
Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine....
In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it....
European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift the remaining economic curbs on the war-torn country, amid concerns it could slip back into conflict....
The European Union has now targeted Moscow’s fleet of covert oil tankers and plans more restrictions, as the Trump administration’s approach to the war shifts....
President Trump appears to be stepping back from trying to end the war in Ukraine. Many in the country see little choice but to battle on....
Investors burned by President Trump’s trade fight now have to contend with a spending megabill that risks swelling the federal deficit....
The office audited the bureau’s use of a disputed warrantless wiretap law that is set to expire next spring unless Congress reauthorizes it....
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet his international counterparts at a G7 finance ministers meeting in Canada....
The reported success of Chinese-made fighter jets and air-to-air missiles in the conflict has fed nationalist pride in China, and has renewed warnings to Taiwan....
Israel has long sought to bring home from Syria the remains of Eli Cohen, whose spying work is credited with helping Israel win the Arab-Israeli War of 1967....
The United States can stand up to the Kremlin in Ukraine now or later. But the cost of waiting could be high....
President Trump once vowed to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. Now he says the two sides should work it out themselves....
Also, the nation’s third-largest school district has embraced A.I. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday....
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