Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of “Project 2025,” the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the US Office of Management and Budget, a powerful agency that helps decide the president’s policy priorities and how to pay for them. Vought, who was OMB chief during Trump’s…

CIA expands online recruitment of informants to China, Iran, North Korea

CIA expands online recruitment of informants to China, Iran, North Korea

The US CIA on Wednesday launched a new drive to recruit informants in China, Iran and North Korea, adding to what it says has been a successful effort to enlist Russians. The premier US spy agency posted instructions in Mandarin, Farsi and Korean on its accounts on X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, LinkedIn and the Dark…

Blinken says Russia has received new ballistic missiles from Iran

Blinken says Russia has received new ballistic missiles from Iran

US and Europe impose new sanctions on Iran in response to supply of weapons that US says Russia could use in Ukraine Russia has received new deadly ballistic missiles from Iran for use in Ukraine and is likely to use them, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced on Tuesday in London as he prepared…