Tulsi Gabbard faced tough questions Thursday about past comments about Russia, Syria and government leaker Edward Snowden during a Senate confirmation hearing on her nomination to lead the U.S. intell

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is testifying Thursday morning before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to make her case as President Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran and former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is set to face a skeptical Senate during her confirmation hearing Thursday for the role of director of national intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard’s past statements on Syria, Russia, Ukraine and warrantless spying have all given Republican senators pause. But for some lawmakers another issue looms just as large: Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who released reams of classified data on American surveillance programs in 2013 and then fled to Russia.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with drones and ballistic missiles before dawn Saturday, officials said, killing at least three people in central Kyiv as part of a broader assault that targeted towns and cities across the country.

When Russian troops poured into Ukraine in 2022, continuing the aggression begun eight years earlier when the nation seized strategically located Crimea, Santa Fe painter Corinna MacNeice’s reaction was unlike those of most Americans: “Not this again.”

POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA, Hawaii — Marines used their new hunter-killer system to blast dozens of target drones out of the sky Saturday over a training ground on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for national intelligence director, dismissed claims she is a puppet for global leaders. She accused Democratic senators of religious bigotry against Hindus during her confirmation hearing.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's embattled pick for national intelligence director, was grilled about whether she might clash with intelligence officers during her Senate confirmation hearing.

President Trump's nominee to be top US spy, Tulsi Gabbard, and pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, face tough Senate hearings.

Any one of those resume bullet points might be enough to sink her precariously perched nomination, but in her confirmation hearing today it was Edward Snowden that dominated the discussion. Judging from the line of questioning from senators in both parties,

Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for director of national intelligence faced its stiffest opposition yet Thursday, as senators from both parties appeared exasperated by Gabbard’s answers during a hearing Thursday.