As Patel faces members of the Senate in his confirmation hearing, Americans are curious to learn more about his background.

The man picked for a top security role in Donald Trump’s administration is a children’s author who believes the president has been persecuted and undermined by the “deep state”.

President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, is portraying himself to senators as the right leader of a law enforcement agency he says has lost public trust

The vast catalog of provocative public statements, sometimes made in the company of like-minded FBI antagonists, provides an unusually extensive record of a nominee’s unvarnished and controversial worldviews.

In the first of two days of hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wasn’t antivaccine as senators pressed on his past remarks. Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel have hearings today, and RFK Jr. faces another panel.

Days before this week's high-stakes confirmation hearing of Kash Patel to be FBI director, a bureau insider has come forward with new information questioning Patel's judgment during sensitive ...

President Trump’s choice of a staunch loyalist to lead the bureau upends the post-Watergate tradition of picking nonpartisan directors. Mr. Patel’s enemies list and his vow to exact a campaign of retribution loom over the hearing.

The nominee for F.B.I. director made his nonprofit into a publicity machine, selling his children’s book, his clothing brand and his image as Donald Trump’s ultimate loyalist.

During his opening statement, Kash Patel told lawmakers he would aim to address the "erosion of trust" in the FBI if he were confirmed to serve as its director.

Patel is a controversial nominee, having long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.

Kash Patel, President Trump's pick for FBI director, faces members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in his confirmation hearing Thursday.