Over the past decade since my fellow Iowans sent me to Washington to make the big spenders squeal, I’ve been exposing waste, fraud, and abuse almost too insane to believe. This week, I was proud to ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst praised the cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) included in the bill passed in ...

Authorization Act, which passed a Senate panel, would create guidelines for IC's procurement and use of AI tools.

Speaker Mike Johnson is putting pressure on Senate Republicans to pass President Donald Trump’s rescissions package. Johnson ...

For conspiracy theorists, no defeat is final. There’s always more to the story, and no investigation will ever be sufficient.

Just as President Trump’s highly anticipated "Big Beautiful Bill” prepares to take center stage in Washington, a presentation ...

At issue now is a newly declassified CIA report, ordered by Ratcliffe, that faults Brennan’s oversight of a 2017 intelligence ...

The release of formerly classified documents this week shows how Trump appointees are using their power to try to prop up his allegations about both agencies.

A declassified CIA memo released Wednesday challenges the work intelligence agencies did to conclude that Russia interfered ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at ...