C.I.A. Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine
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C.I.A. Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been paused alongside military aid to pressure its government to cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans to end the country’s war with Russia. Speaking on Fox Business, Mr. Ratcliffe…

Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102
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Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who made Blue Nun one of the most popular wines in the world in the 1970s and ’80s….

C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
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C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, according to U.S. officials. The covert drone program, which has not been previously disclosed, began under…

Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team
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Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Anita van Duyn, a former retail entrepreneur who left Science of Identity in 1994 after more than a decade in the group and knew Ms. Gabbard as a young woman, has written a letter to members of Congress warning that Ms. Gabbard is…

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a…