Investigation

U.S. officials say private Chinese firms have been enlisted to process stolen data for their country’s spy agencies.

As Xi consolidated power, U.S. officials struggled to read China’s new ruler.

The discovery of U.S. spy networks in China fueled a decadelong global war over data between Beijing and Washington.

Questions raised by a Pentagon investigator went unanswered following his workplace suicide.

Whistleblowers and experts allege corruption at a United Nations Development Program project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Russia, according to a Foreign Policy investigation.

Looking for help on immigration, the Trump administration is silent in the face of Guatemala’s effort to seal its dirty war archive.

Everything about the Mueller report is ambiguous—except its ultimate moral meaning.

Political chaos in Washington is what Moscow was hoping for all along, U.S. intelligence officials say. And the Kremlin would like to create more of it.

With Trump somewhat vindicated by the special counsel, chances of impeachment are dimming.

U.S. Republicans are weakening a U.N. anti-corruption investigation into President Jimmy Morales. What are they getting in exchange?

After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.

The U.N. concluded two of its investigators, an American and a Swede, were killed in a random ambush in Congo. But evidence suggests they may have walked into a government trap.

The Kremlin can expect more sanctions and more investigations from a Democratic House.

Trump's nominee for secretary of state must answer for the false claims and recycled conspiracies he propagated.

Leaked reports reveal the organization's faulty forensics on sexual misconduct — and the culture of impunity they produce.

Senate leaders across party lines are concerned intelligence community watchdogs are failing to protect whistleblowers.

The UAE Is paying Ex-CIA officers to build a spy empire in the Gulf

Don McGahn was looking at whether the national security advisor violated federal laws just days after Trump moved into the White House.

It might be a dramatic breakthrough in the investigation of Donald Trump — or a revelation of Robert Mueller’s weak hand.

People anticipating a swift end to this drama should temper their expectations.

The chairman is trying to hurry to wrap things up, but there's a ton more work to do.

A meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. has made a Russian attorney and an Azerbaijani pop star household names.

Can the former FBI director lead us back to our better selves?

The Senate Intel Committee takes a field trip to CIA headquarters.

The airstrikes on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled areas employed the toxic material, which has been accused of causing cancer and birth defects.

Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?

A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit. 

How Azerbaijan's dictator woos the United States and Europe.

Three years after Fukushima, Japanese officials insist their nuclear facilities are safe. They're not.

Why is the U.N. censoring its own Syria news?

This obscure FBI unit does the domestic surveillance that no other intelligence agency can touch.

How maritime unions sunk America’s food aid reform.

The untold story of al-Shabab's murderous attack on the U.N. in Mogadishu.

India is flooding the world with tainted drugs -- and getting away with it.

The Kafka-esque story of the U.S. translators being held against their will in a Kuwaiti hangar.

Blame profits, politics -- and a huge growth in secrecy-obsessed institutions.