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US President-elect Donald Trump has named his former adviser Kash Patel to serve as next FBI director. If confirmed by the Senate, Patel will replace Christopher Wray, whom Trump often attacked and accused of going after him and his allies for political reasons.  “Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and …

Former CIA Director Gina Haspel watched as a prisoner was tortured by interrogators at a Thai black site that she ran for the agency in 2002, the New York Times reported on Friday. As chief of the CIA base in Thailand in late 2002, Haspel personally observed interrogation sessions in …

Chinese President Xi Jinping is “unsettled” by the West’s reaction to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and is looking “carefully at what lessons [he] should draw” and apply to a potential invasion of Taiwan, CIA Director William Burns told a conference on Saturday. Speaking at a Financial Times conference in …

CIA Director William Burns told a Financial Times conference on Saturday that the US’ intelligence agencies haven’t seen any “practical evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously claimed that Putin could use such weapons. “We don’t see, as …

Sony has announced the release of a Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection box set, which is set to be available in February and contain 8 discs featuring ‘Ghostbusters’ (1984), ‘Ghostbusters II’ (1989), and ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ (2021). Notably, the collection does not include Paul Feig’s 2016 reboot. The director took to Twitter, asking …

Whether vaccinated or not, those traveling for the holidays must do so “very carefully,” Collins told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, as well as the potential threat of the Omicron variant.  Collins admitted, however, that airplanes are a “fairly safe place” to be …

Earlier this month, during a meeting with the HRC, Sokurov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the country would be better off letting Russia’s southern republics go it alone. “It seems to me that more and more Russians are beginning to dislike the Federation,” he told the president. “Many young …

Wray’s comments were made at the national conference for the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI last month in Arizona, the Daily Caller reported on Thursday. Cecil Moses, a retired agent and former Alabama police chief, said Wray wanted to push back against any “misconceptions” about the FBI’s …

The brief statement, issued by the National Security Council to the media on Tuesday, mentioned neither any details from the meeting, nor when it exactly took place. A short photoshoot at the start of the meeting showed the two security officials greet each other with a nod of the head. …

Dave Halls was “removed from set” after “a crew member incurred a minor and temporary injury when a gun was unexpectedly discharged” during the production of ‘Freedom’s Path’ in 2019, a producer on the film told the Hollywood Reporter on Monday. Halls, according to court documents, had assured Alec Baldwin …