The Partnership:The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
On a spring morning two months after Vladimir Putin’s invading armies marched into Ukraine, a convoy of unmarked cars slid up to a Kyiv street corner and collected two middle-aged men in...
Category: Crime & Justice
Reports on high-profile crimes, investigations, and legal cases.
The Trump White House’s Signal Problem
“It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up” is a horrible cliché of Washington journalism, but nonetheless it fits the Signal scandal that engulfed the Trump administration this week. The...
How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now
At the University of Pennsylvania last fall, someone splattered red paint on a statue honoring Benjamin Franklin, the school’s founder. Within hours, campus workers washed it off. But the...
Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier
One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier...
U.S. Revives Tough Demands in Reworked Deal for Ukraine’s Minerals
More than a month after Washington and Kyiv first haggled over a deal to grant the United States a major stake in Ukraine’s mineral, oil and gas development projects, the two sides are back to...
Ukraine Stages New Push Into Russia, Officials and Experts Say
In a major bet last summer, Ukraine launched a daring offensive on Russian soil, the first invasion of Russia since World War II. That incursion into the Kursk region stunned Moscow and...
Signal Leak Bared U.S. Aims in Yemen. But Defeating Houthis Won’t Be Easy.
The bombshell publication of a group chat involving Trump administration officials discussing U.S. battle plans revealed in unusually stark fashion what the Trump administration hopes to achieve...
Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
Attorney General Pam Bondi signaled on Thursday that there was unlikely to be a criminal investigation into the sharing of military operation details in an unsecured text group, declaring that the...
Criminal Groups Inflicting Online Harm Present ‘Unprecedented Threat’ to Teenagers, Warns U.K. Crime Agency
Britain’s National Crime Agency has issued a stark warning about an unprecedented threat facing young people from online groups that manipulate teenagers into sharing violent and misogynistic...
She has been released and is now advocating for the release of her partner, who is still in Gaza
More than 15 months have passed since Ilana Gritzewsky was released from captivity by Hamas in Gaza, but she still does not feel free. Her partner, Matan Zangauker, remains a hostage. Both were...