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Director of the US Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte speaks with reporters at the White House, September 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
June 2, 2026, 5:55 pm
Trump taps inexperienced housing finance director as new acting US intelligence chief
Presidential loyalist Bill Pulte, replacing Tulsi Gabbard, isn’t known to have any national security expertise; will also stay on as head of federal mortgage giants
By Josh Boak
This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor shows the Natanz Nuclear Facility near Natanz, Isfahan province, in central Iran on March 7, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor / AFP)
May 5, 2026, 3:09 am
Iran no further from nuclear weapon than before war, US intel agencies assess
Despite long weeks of fighting, US spy agencies said to estimate that Tehran remains year away from being able to build a nuke — a timeline that has been in place since June 2025 strikes
By Gram Slattery, Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, on December 20, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
February 8, 2026, 5:40 pm
US intel chief Gabbard calls claim she hid whistleblower complaint a ‘blatant lie’
Trump official says deadline to share complaints with Congress doesn’t apply in case, amid affair said to stem from intercepted phone call about Iran and a person close to Trump
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)
June 20, 2025, 11:14 am
Mossad says Iran 15 days from bomb, US agencies still say up to a year – report
CIA director cited saying Tehran ‘very close’ to nuclear weapons; US officials tell NY Times assassination of Khamenei, US strike on Fordo could prompt breakout to bomb
By ToI Staff
President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner with Senate Republicans at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, February 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
February 8, 2025, 12:05 pm
Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance in apparent payback move
US president says ‘no need’ for predecessor to receive confidential briefings, can’t be ‘trusted with sensitive information,’ adds Biden set precedent by revoking Trump’s clearance
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
December 7, 2024, 6:54 pm
US increasingly worried that Iran is poised to build nukes, intel report says
Document says Tehran not currently building an atomic weapon, but uranium enrichment levels are near weapons-grade, existing stockpiles are enough for over a dozen nuclear warheads
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A photo released by the IDF on February 7, 2024 shows a major Hamas tunnel captured by Israeli troops in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (IDF)
June 15, 2024, 2:18 am
Report: US army in October planned, shelved, potential op to rescue American hostages
US imaging capacities played secondary but crucial role in recent rescue op, say officials, with Israel’s lackluster data underscoring its pre-Oct. 7 human intel failure
By ToI Staff
An Israel Air Force CH-53 Sea Stallion military helicopter flies over as people gather with Israeli national flags outside Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on June 8, 2024, where Israeli hostages were transferred after being rescued from captivity in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks. (Jack Guez / AFP)
June 10, 2024, 4:23 pm
Hamas operatives said to have standing orders to kill hostages if IDF approaches
US officials cited by New York Times say American aircraft have been gathering intel on captives held by terrorists in Gaza since Oct. 7, catching details missed by Israeli drones
By ToI Staff
Thousands of Israelis take part in a rally in Jerusalem calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, on April 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 11, 2024, 6:13 pm
US, Israeli officials fear most hostages held by Hamas are dead — report
Wall Street Journal says some captives believed killed in IDF strikes, some died of health issues, others being ‘used as human shields’ around terrorist leaders in Gaza tunnels
By ToI Staff
Left: Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified. Right: An IDF strike early March 10, 2024, on a tunnel where Issa was believed to be hiding. (Social media; Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2024, 8:42 pm
Report: Assassination of top Hamas commander likely aided by US eavesdropping
NBC cites unnamed officials saying Israel reached Marwan Issa, found damning info on UNRWA employees, using intel from hardware captured in Gaza, aided by US wiretaps
By ToI Staff
(L-R) Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffrey Kruse, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director William Burns, National Intelligence Director Avril Haines, US Air Force Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Brett Holmgren testify before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on March 11, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
March 12, 2024, 3:58 am
US assessment: Hamas likely to pose armed threat to Israel ‘for years to come’
Intel report says IDF ‘will struggle to neutralize’ terror group’s tunnel network in Gaza, predicts massive Israeli protests calling for elections and demanding Netanyahu resign
By Jacob Magid
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 19, 2023 shows the test launch of a Hwasongpho-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
January 5, 2024, 8:32 pm
US: Russia used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine, seeks Iranian ones too
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Moscow advancing arms deal with Tehran, though not yet completed; Korean rocket fired at least once on Dec. 30
By Colleen Long and AAMER MADHANI
Hamas terrorists bring a hostage into Shifa Hospital as seen on surveillance footage from October 7, 2023. (IDF)
January 3, 2024, 6:42 am
US intel assesses Hamas used Shifa Hospital as command center, held hostages there
American official says US obtained evidence that Gaza-ruling terror group largely evacuated hospital before Israeli op, destroyed documents and electronics while leaving
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This image provided by Maxar Technologies and released by the White House shows an industrial site several hundred miles east of Moscow where US intelligence officials believe Russia with Iran’s help, is building a factory to produce attack drones for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)
June 9, 2023, 5:38 pm
US: Iran helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow for Ukraine war
White House says new facility could be up and running early next year as Moscow seeks to ensure a steady supply of arms for its invasion
By AAMER MADHANI
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appears in US District Court in Boston, April 14, 2023 (Margaret Small via AP)
April 15, 2023, 8:02 am
US intel leak suspect in court; charges reveal how investigators pinpointed guardsman
Documents show Discord platform provided information that helped lead the FBI to Jack Teixeira; investigators questioned his social media contacts; motive publicly unexplained
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Eric Tucker and NOMAAN MERCHANT
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