CIA

The books we’re excited to read in the second half of 2025.

Literature

Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.

7 days ago
Melanie Kembrey

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Russia-Ukraine war

It has held dictators to account for 75 years, but Trump has left it in survival mode

It was founded to ensure people living in restrictive regimes in post-Soviet states had access to uncensored news. But the future of Radio Free Europe is more uncertain than ever.

June 17, 2025
Rob Harris

Trump's White House

The Signal chat decoded: What Hegseth and Waltz revealed in airstrike text messages

Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information, military experts say.

March 27, 2025

Trump's White House

‘The first bombs will definitely drop’: Full text of US military group chat scandal revealed

The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn’t classified.

March 27, 2025
Michael Koziol

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe were both in the Signal group chat.

Trump's White House

Harmless ‘glitch’: Trump brushes off inclusion of journalist to military group chat

Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing, denying that classified information had been shared.

March 26, 2025
Michael Koziol

November 22, 1963, the day president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

US politics

What’s new in the JFK files? Five things to know about the assassination records

It’s mostly information experts already knew, but there are some gems including unveiled American assets who spied on Castro and the inner workings of CIA spycraft.