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3 days ago · The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence ...
2 days ago · The CIA backed a force composed of CIA-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba with support and equipment from the US military, in an attempt to overthrow Castro's government. The invasion was launched in April 1961, three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States, but the Cuban armed forces defeated the invading ...
3 days ago · Two of Teddy Roosevelt’s grandchildren, Kermit and Archie, served their country in the CIA during the early years of the Cold War. Both were keenly interested in Middle East affairs, and were ...
1 day ago · Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which drastically limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. This reflected nativist sentiments and reinforced racial and ethnic discrimination in U.S. immigration policy. The years following World War I saw a resurgence of nativist sentiment in the United States.
5 days ago · CIA Director William Burns faces uphill battle in secret negotiations aimed at getting Israel, Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire. William Burns is the chief U.S. mediator in Middle East talks ...
11 hours ago · Two top Biden administration officials are in the Middle East to revive long-stalled negotiations over a deal that would impose a cease-fire in the war in Gaza and free Israeli hostages held by ...
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2 days ago · Mexico’s persistently high levels of violence will be one of her most immediate challenges after she takes office Oct. 1. On the campaign trail she said little more than that she would expand the quasi-military National Guard created by López Obrador and continue his strategy of targeting social ills that make so many young Mexicans easy targets for cartel recruitment.
