The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.
Ratcliffe faced a brief delay to his nomination from Democrats questioning his independence from President Donald Trump.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
A former federal prosecutor and Texas Republican, Ratcliffe gained prominence as a congressman as a staunch defender of Trump.
In a big win for the surveillance state, Trump is attacking one of the government's only internal oversight agencies.
The former Texas lawmaker and prosecutor was Trump's national intelligence director in his first term. He vowed to reject White House political pressure ...
A Senate Democrat is blocking a streamlined process to vote on Trump's nominees, forcing the Senate to take lengthy ...
President Donald Trump's second term officially got underway on Monday, January 20 when he was sworn into office by U.S.