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Sebastian Rotella

Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during the pro-am prior to the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on July 28, 2022. (Jonathan Ferrey/LIV Golf via Getty Images)

Covert operation? Globetrotting “con man” and “suspected spy” met with Trump at his golf resort

Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg

Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. - A 2019 bulletin from the FBI warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists are a domestic terrorism threat. (KYLE GRILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Domestic terrorism: a more urgent threat, but weaker laws

Sebastian Rotella

Donald Trump | CDC Headquarters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Inside the fall of the CDC

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally | COVID-19 patient attached to a ventilator (Getty Images/Salon)

White House paid up to $500 million too much for ventilators: Congressional investigators

Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella

Donald Trump | World Health Organization sign (Salon/Getty Images)

Inside the Trump administration’s decision to leave the World Health Organization

Sebastian Rotella, James Bandler, Patricia Callahan

U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Attorney General Bill Barr refuses to release 9/11 documents to families of the victims

Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella

An Indian man walks outside the Taj Mahal hotel, which was one of the sites of the Mumbai terror attack, in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 10, 2015. A Pakistani court on Thursday, April 9, 2015, ordered the release of the main suspect Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in the 2008 Mumbai attacks for the second time in less than a month, a defense lawyer said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) (Rajanish Kakade)

Trump cheers as Pakistan rounds up the usual suspect in Mumbai case

Sebastian Rotella

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Trump takes a tougher line on Pakistan, but the 2008 Mumbai attack goes unpunished

Sebastian Rotella

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Getty/Alexey Nikolsky)

The U.S. considered declaring Russia a state sponsor of terror, then dropped it

Sebastian Rotella

John Bolton (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

John Bolton skewed intelligence, say people who worked with him

Sebastian Rotella

(AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)

The sound and the fury: Inside the mystery of the Havana embassy

Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella

(AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

France’s elections are just the latest in Russia’s shadow war in a wary Europe

Sebastian Rotella

(Santiago Flores/South Bend Tribune via AP)

“We should be working more with the Mexicans”: Former “border czar” shares real facts about immigration

Sebastian Rotella

Trump’s conflict with spies is more than a “dangerous moment”

Sebastian Rotella

At the request of a human rights association, members of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team traveled to Dos Erres in the 1990s and excavated bodies from the well. (Silvana Turner/EAAF)

“They ordered us to kill all the people”

Sebastian Rotella

Syrian rebels aim during a weapons training exercise outside Idlib, Syria. (AP)

Syria’s jihadi migration emerges as top terror threat

Sebastian Rotella

NSA surveillance didn’t lead to capture of deadly terrorist

Sebastian Rotella

Hezbollah targets Israeli tourists

Sebastian Rotella

Terrorism comes home

Sebastian Rotella

U.S. pressures Pakistan on terror group

Sebastian Rotella