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Dan Boylan

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Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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talks for now: Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in South Korea as part of a diplomatic visit to the peninsula and China in an attempt to ease tensions with North Korea. (Associated Press)

National security chiefs tamp down ‘fire and fury’ rhetoric

Senior national security leaders in the Trump administration are systematically walking back the president's hard-line rhetoric toward provocations by North Korea, advocating over the past several days an approach that is less fire and fury and more of a pragmatic approach to Pyongyang's saber-rattling.

August 15, 2017
Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Asia-Pacific region since the crisis escalated last week. He told reporters in Seoul on Monday, "It would be a horrible thing were a war to be conducted here on the peninsula, and that's why we're so focused on coming up with a peaceful way ahead."

Donald Trump’s aides tamp down North Korea rhetoric

Senior national security leaders in the Trump administration are systematically walking back the president's hard-line rhetoric toward provocations by North Korea, advocating over the past several days an approach that is less fire and fury and more of a pragmatic approach to Pyongyang's saber-rattling.

August 14, 2017

North Korea rhetoric remains sharp but shows signs of cooling

The White House significantly scaled back its rhetoric against North Korea on Sunday, with both the national security adviser and the nation's top spy saying the U.S. is no closer to war with the communist nation, despite the president's vow to unleash "fire and fury" against the North should it lash out militarily against America and its Pacific allies.

August 13, 2017
This April 3, 2013, file photo shows bitcoin tokens in Sandy, Utah. (Associated Press/File)

Bitcoin value surge sign of criminal activity

The value of the shadowy digital currency known as bitcoin has jumped to record highs this month, sending shock waves through America's defense and intelligence agencies, which fear its growth signals a surge in use by terrorists, drug kingpins, white-collar criminals and Russian cybercriminals who don't want to be tracked by the world's governments.

August 10, 2017
In this April 7, 2017, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Former attorney for Loretta Lynch now working for congressional probe of former AG

A Democratic attorney on the Senate Judiciary Committee looking into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's possible effort to influence the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton helped edit the media talking points about the infamous tarmac meeting last year between Bill Clinton and Ms. Lynch while working for the Obama administration.

August 9, 2017
Clint Watts, a disinformation expert, says a propaganda tracking tool he helped develop found evidence the Kremlin is exploiting White House divisions online. (Associated Press)

Russian hacking targets internal White House strife

A former FBI special agent-turned disinformation expert says a propaganda tracking tool he helped develop took less than a week to pinpoint evidence of Kremlin efforts to exploit current White House political divisions at the highest levels of national security.

August 8, 2017
United States U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power speaks during her final press conference, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (Associated Press)

Susan Power faces tough questions over ‘unmasking’ requests

Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power will become the latest Obama-era official to meet with congressional investigators probing a vastly different side of the Russian election meddling story, the possibility the previous White House spied on Trump campaign and transition personnel, when she gives private testimony Friday before a congressional panel.

July 27, 2017
Former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence firm were not part of Hillary Clinton's campaign or the Democratic National Committee. The money trail to Mr. Steele went through a lawyer who represents the DNC and the Clinton campaign and is steeped in U.S. election law. (Associated Press/File)

Anti-Trump dossier firm did work for corrupt regimes, rights group claims

The secretive Washington firm that commissioned the sensational anti-Trump campaign research dossier also advised corrupt Venezuelan officials accused of conducting a lucrative money laundering scheme, a respected international human rights group told lawmakers probing the Russian election-meddling scandal.

July 26, 2017
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, second from right, accompanied by his attorney Abbe Lowell, left, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, to meet behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee on the investigation into possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jared Kushner returns to Capitol Hill for day two of Russia questions

One day after he issued a lengthy and detailed rebuttal to charges the Trump presidential campaign somehow colluded with Russia, White House aide and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a second day of private meetings with congressional investigations into Russia's role in the 2016 election.

July 25, 2017
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, July 24, 2017, after meeting on Capitol Hill behind closed doors with the Senate Intelligence Committee on the investigation into possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jared Kushner denies collusion with Russians to Congress, public

In a lengthy and detailed rebuttal, White House aide and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner made a public and private declaration of his innocence and said the charges of Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign were intended solely to ridicule the president's millions of supporters.

July 24, 2017