As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he is doing that.

America was born cutting a king down to size. I don’t want to trivialize that impulse 249 years later. It’s America’s birthright.

Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and ...

Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s ...

It's one of the most shocking chapters in the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." How the U.S. government wire-tapped his phones and bugged hotel rooms where he stayed. It was all an attempt ...

Before long, McCarthy's calls for new FBI leadership were cataloged and commented upon by FBI officials in a nearly 500-page file, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information ...

J. Edgar Hoover built the FBI into a national powerhouse—but behind the scenes, he operated with unchecked power and hidden agendas. This is the story of how it all began.

The move was classic James Comey. The former director of the FBI was due at a courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, at 10 a.m.

"The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Betty Medsger, San Francisco State University (THE CONVERSATION) As a candidate last ...

In the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered it pertinent biographical information that The New York Times' Tom Wicker suffered from “mental halitosis.” Since this is not, ...