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New York Times Dec. 7, 2025 By Christopher Flavelle Christopher Flavelle interviewed more than 30 former Biden administration officials who worked on immigration and border policy, as well as members of Congress, state and local officials, lawyers and...

(Read the Memo Here) The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: up to 18...

The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times Mark Bowden Scott Peterson/Liaison, via Getty Images The battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans. U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support a U...

WHITE HOUSE MEMO From George to Barack: A Look at Secret Bush Memos to the Obama Team Newly declassified memos offer a window into how the world appeared as the Bush administration was winding down. By Peter Baker WASHINGTON — The world was a volatile...

Email on communications policy reminds worker of responsibility to ‘be impartial’ Tue, Mar 8, 2022, 13:02 Naomi O’Leary People carry a wounded woman during the evacuation by civilians of the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv. Photography: Getty The United...

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shown speaking in the Oval Office last month. PHOTO: ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Nancy A. Youssef Updated June 4, 2020 3:19 pm ET The nation’s highest-ranking U.S. military officer...

Memos Show Roots of Trump’s Focus on Jan. 6 and Alternate Electors By Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater Feb. 2, 2022 Just over two weeks after Election Day, lawyers working with the Trump campaign set out a rationale for creating alternate...

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.

Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says In an internal memo meant to pre-empt a “60 Minutes” interview, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization. Nick Clegg, Facebook’s...

(Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times/Pool/AP) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley submitted two unclassified memos to the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding phone calls he had with his Chinese counterpart during the final months...