WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.

Ratcliffe, who served as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence during part of Trump's first term in office, was appointed with 74 senators voting in favor and 24 voting against the appointment.

President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... though President Joe Biden elevated the position to Cabinet level under Ratcliffe’s predecessor, William ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... has not always been a part of a president’s Cabinet, though President Joe Biden elevated the position to Cabinet level under Ratcliffe’s predecessor, William ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

Shortly after John Ratcliffe was sworn in as the CIA’s new director, the agency shifted its view on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Senate will vote today on John Ratcliffe's nomination to serve as director of the CIA. If senators approve his nomination, he will be the second member of Trump's team to be confirmed after Marco Rubio was sworn in as secretary of state earlier this week.

By a 74-25 vote, lawmakers approve a former director of national intelligence accused of politicizing intelligence assessments.

Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence in the final months of Trump’s first term, drew controversy over perceived politicization of intelligence assessments.