Isaac Arnsdorf covers politics, influence, and the Trump administration for ProPublica.
After the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly contradicted the official narrative around the previous secretary's departure, legal questions have sprung up about the current leadership of the department.
In what has become a staple of this administration, infighting, backstabbing, and lack of leadership is plaguing potential legislative progress within the VA.
The attorney general mischaracterized Obama-era restrictions while citing a study that actually says new computers reduce crime more than heavy weapons do.
The Internet and social media provide Russia cheap, efficient, and highly effective access to foreign audiences with plausible deniability of their influence.
Rinat Akhmetshin once worked for military intelligence in the former Soviet Union. He says he's long retired from that work, but some American officials suspect he still has ties to Russian intelligence.