Sjögren’s antibody testing is done using a blood sample. It checks antibody levels, including anti-SS-A (also called anti-Ro) and anti-SS-B (also called anti-La). Anti-SS-A and anti-SS-B are ...

And is probably still at it. As newly released classified documents confirm activists’ long-held suspicions, the disclosures should also alert us to current dangers. Ad Policy The Brown Berets ...

Mark Warner (D-Va.), the committee’s vice chair, aired those worries during opening remarks and by asking Ratcliffe if he would resist efforts to force out or fire any CIA employees on the basis ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the nation’s premier spy agency must do a better job of staying ...

WASHINGTON − John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, said he plans widespread reforms at the nation’s premiere spy agency at his nomination hearing Wednesday ...

Washington — John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be CIA director, promised the Senate Intelligence Committee that if he's confirmed, the CIA would be rededicated to its ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the Director of the Central Intelligence ...

John Ratcliffe, President-elect Trump’s choice to head the CIA, faced questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday morning in his first confirmation hearing. Ratcliffe ...

“It’s absolutely essential that the CIA’s leader be apolitical,” Ratcliffe told the committee’s chairman, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas). Pressed by Sen. Mark R. Warner (Virginia), the ...

The CIA governs America’s human-centered foreign intelligence collection, as well as covert action operations — like influence campaigns — to advance U.S. security interests. “We will ...

Former Rep. John Ratcliffe, Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Ratcliffe represented Texas in the House from 2015 ...

John Ratcliffe walks out of a meeting with Senate Minority Whip John Thune on Dec. 4, 2024. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ...