Jim Mustian

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  • grassleyPolitics

    ‘There are a lot of people concerned he’s not the same old Chuck Grassley’: Where has the oversight chief gone under Trump 2.0?

    By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others
  • FILE – President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)North America

    The Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine — while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats

    By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others
  • TrumpPolitics

    Trump, who mocked Biden’s use of autopen, caught posting identical signatures on pardons

    By Jim Mustian, Brian Slodysko, and others
  • FILE – Debris covers the area of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Monday, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman, File)Environment

    FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

    By Ryan J. Foley, Christopher L. Keller, and others
  • A Camp Mystic sign is seen near the entrance to the establishment along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, Saturday, July 5, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Politics

    Texas approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plans just 2 days before deadly flooding killed more than 2 dozen people there

    By Jim Mustian, Christopher L. Keller, and others
  • CIA director William Burns stands in a courtroomLifestyle

    A veteran CIA officer reached up a colleague’s skirt and forcibly kissed her in front of co-workers, prosecutors allege in sexual misconduct case

    By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others
  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bulletPolitics

    Motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive as authorities hunt for clues

    By Michael Biesecker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others
  • MarijuanaPolitics

    Biden’s DEA to reclassify marijuana in historic shift that still doesn’t decriminalize it, sources say

    By Zeke Miller, Joshua Goodman, and others
  • Manuel RochaPolitics

    Elite Miami lawyer hid in plain sight as a Yale graduate and top exec while spying for Cuba for 50 years: AP investigation

    By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others
  • The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters are pictured in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022. – US President Biden is visiting the CIA headquarters today to congratulate the Agency and staff on the 75th anniversary of its founding. (Photo by Samuel Corum / AFP) (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)Leadership

    Ex-CIA officer accused of drugging and sexually abusing two dozen women pleads guilty in the latest embarrassment for the spy agency

    By Fu Ting, Jim Mustian, and others
  • DEALifestyle

    The FBI flipped DEA snitch ‘Bowling Ball,’ and he’s blowing the lid open on Miami’s ‘white powder bar’ of cocaine lawyers

    By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others
  • Joseph RuddyPolitics

    One of America’s top cocaine cops just blew a 0.17% blood-alcohol level and handed his business card to a cop wearing a bodycam

    By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 09: CIA Director William Burns testifies during a House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing concerning worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill March 9, 2023 in Washington, DC. The leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies testified on a wide range of issues, including China, Russia, Covid-19 origins, and TikTok. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)MPW

    ‘Culture of secrecy’: CIA employees say agency tries to ‘cover up’ rampant sexual misconduct that includes lewd remarks and assaults

    By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others
  • Anne MilgramPolitics

    2-year, $1.4 million review of DEA scandals ends with ‘stunningly vague’ report, top senator says

    By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others
  • Hugo HollandPolitics

    Special prosecutor denies he’s a ‘closet Klansman’ as he takes case of 5 white police officers charged with killing Black motorist

    By Jim Mustian and The Associated Press