Trump’s Nominee for Pentagon Weapons Buyer Was a Key Figure in the President's First Impeachment Michael Duffey, Trump's nominee to be undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, served as the associate...
A US Shutdown on Foreign Aid Is Hitting from Africa to Asia to Ukraine. Here's How U.S-funded aid programs around the world have begun firing staff and shutting down or preparing to stop their operations, as...
Intelligence Sharing by the US and Its Allies Has Saved Lives. Trump Could Test Those Ties America's closest intelligence partners are New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain, and it often shares with other...
Colombia Agrees to Accept US Military Deportation Flights After Trump Tariff Threats The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S., hours...
Trump Wants Egypt and Jordan to Take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here's Why They Are Likely to Refuse. Trump floated the idea, saying he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in Gaza's now largely homeless...
Military Effort to Scrub Diversity Programs Leads to Dead Websites and Confusion The Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force -- as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs -- were all working...
US Has Not Stopped Military Aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy Says Ukraine relies on the U.S. for 40% of its military needs.
State Department Freezes New Funding for Nearly All US Aid Programs Worldwide The order threatened a quick halt to many of the billions of dollars in U.S.-funded projects globally to support health...
Japan's Leader Says He's Preparing for Tough Negotiations with Trump on Maintaining US Presence Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, said he will seek to maintain...
Senate Advances Pete Hegseth as Trump's Defense Secretary, Despite Allegations Against Him Two Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, broke ranks with Trump and his allies who...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
