Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show
Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactionsSign up for the Breaking News US newslette...
One by one, U.S. civil rights agency dismantles tools to fight discrimination
The EEOC is seeking to overturn rules created decades ago to tackle discrimination in employment. The Trump administration says those rules have led t...
Senior CIA official accused of stealing $40m in gold bars from agency
David Rush’s trial for allegedly taking 303 gold bars and $2m in foreign currency from agency was pushed to next weekUS politics live – latest updates...
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journal...
Health agency names two schools affected by Berkshire meningitis outbreak
Students from Reading Blue Coat school, and Highdown secondary school and Sixth Form Centre receiving treatmentTwo schools attended by pupils receivin...
Aukus costs balloon with more cash and staff for submarine agency amid ongoing search for nuclear waste dump
Labor has announced funding for Australian Submarine Agency will jump to $512m in next financial year amid concerns the sovereign submarine fleet may ...
Trump taps former FEMA director to lead the disaster agency again
Cameron Hamilton led FEMA briefly in 2025. He was removed by the Trump administration after telling Congress that the agency should continue to exist....
Trump renominates Cameron Hamilton to lead disaster response agency Fema
Hamilton was fired as acting administrator last year after he opposed plans to abolish the agency at a House hearingDonald Trump has once again nomina...
US transportation safety agency mulling investigation into fatal Frontier incident
Safety board says it is gathering information about plane evacuation after person on the runway hit in DenverThe National Transportation Safety Board ...
‘The FDA is a complete mess’: Trump makes fate of agency chief unclear as public trust plummits
Food and Drug Administration commissioner’s decisions have hurt staff morale and put his job in crosshairsDonald Trump has signed off on a plan to fir...
UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms
Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UKBritain’s “invention agency” has pled...
World Anti-Doping Agency investigation finds 300 Russian doping cases
More than 300 sanctions have been handed to Russian athletes following the seizure of Moscow laboratory data in 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency say...
Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach
Cryptocurrency ATMs also face ban, after public inquiry found Canada lacked anti-money-laundering strategyCanada is to establish a new and powerful la...
How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many...
The Small U.K. Agency That’s a 911 for Ships in the Strait of Hormuz
At a military base outside Portsmouth, England, a 24-hour service monitors the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and part of the Indian Ocean, responding to d...
France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs
The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents, announced that hackers stole the personal informati...
US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency
Most-banned book was Sold, a 2006 novel by Patricia McCormick about sex trafficking in IndiaSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter a...
Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency
Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the act...
UK could face ‘hacktivist attacks at scale’, says head of security agency
Officials warn a conflict situation could cause disruption similar to recent major ransomware incidentsThe UK could face “hacktivist attacks at scale”...
ICE deported 174 Daca recipients through most of last year, agency head says in letter
So-called Dreamers – undocumented immigrants who arrived as children – were allowed to stay in US under Obama-era programFrom January through Septembe...
