Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

Analysis of Trump administration's claim that War Powers Resolution's regulating US troops in "hostilities" does not apply to boat strikes.

A top Trump administration lawyer told Congress that the War Powers Resolution, which would require the end of hostilities within 60 days, doesn’t apply to cartel strikes.

The report found “hundreds” of possible Israeli human rights violations, further complicating a process to review credible allegations against IDF military units in Gaza.

Why crowds of young professionals have been lining up to get advice — and hugs — from other people’s bubbes.

Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.

Republican hawks worry Trump will soften his stance on China as a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping looms.

Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.

The president has long attacked the media as “fake news,” but the White House has created a new crop of journalists to advance its policy priorities.

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.

Joseph Francescon, a former intelligence analyst and counterterrorism aide at the White House, will be the new NSA deputy director.

President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.

The former prosecutor is leaving a firm that made ​a deal with the Trump administration for one that fought it.

Patrons of the pro-Trump Butterworth’s Restaurant hope that the feud between the two men marks the end of Musk’s influence in Washington.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard installed one of her top advisors within the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community, compromising the watchdog office’s integrity...

The audacious attacks on Russian airfields highlight the power of unconventional, asymmetric warfare — and the threat to U.S. strategic bases and ports, experts say.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rebuild the agency’s diminished ranks of spies and foreign agents. But have espionage’s golden days passed?

Executives from NSO Group, the controversial Israeli manufacturer of Pegasus spyware, are in Washington this week for meetings with Republican officials.

The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.

Netanyahu has long trumpeted his ties to Trump. But the president is sidelining him on urgent issues like the Iran nuclear talks and the conflict with Houthi rebels.

A deal on a plane that would become Air Force One has not been reached, but ethics experts say accepting it from Qatar would violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

They were Japanese American soldiers, part of a storied military unit that faced down prejudice and suspicion to fight Adolf Hitler’s armies in Europe.

The extraordinary request illustrates the administration’s aggressive bid to identify willing partners who will accept people expelled by the U.S.

Current and former officials say the crackdown at the FBI, the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence is creating a climate of fear and harming national security.

Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland barred U.S. prosecutors in 2022 from seeking court orders for reporters’ phone and email records in leak investigations.

Michael Gloss, 21, the son of a senior CIA official and an Iraq War veteran, suffered from mental illness. He died in April 2024 in eastern Ukraine.

U.S. agencies maintain an inconsistent patchwork of policies relating to the DOGE leader’s demand that all federal employees submit weekly emails listing their accomplishments.

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

Depending on your lineage, you could get a second passport and live abroad.

Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick, who all were suspended before their terminations, said in a joint statement that attacks on them are “baseless.”

The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.

Immigration officers and analysts are increasingly skeptical the Trump administration can deport that many immigrants in a single year.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s team, the Director’s Initiatives Group, is staffed by agency outsiders vetted by the White House, officials said.

Gen. Timothy Haugh, the director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyberespionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials.

The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials.

Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

Voice of America journalists had argued in a lawsuit that the administration’s actions violated their First Amendment rights.

The Trump administration tried to paint the Atlantic editor as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong -- and he had the receipts.

Trump’s statements, policies and actions are providing cover for attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of expression and the rule of law around the world.

John Ullyot, who served in communications roles throughout President Trump’s first term, had faced criticism for his aggressive defense of anti-DEI policies.

Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

The transferring of at least three national security officials amounts to a complete gutting of leadership in the highly sensitive National Security Division.

Firings and mass disruptions at the CIA could harm intelligence collection on foreign threats and future recruiting, current and former officials say.

In a closed-door meeting, U.S. officials touted their success in “zeroing out” foreign assistance, but the downsizing has clipped religious allies, too.

Regardless of the thorns in any of our feet, we all just have to carry on.

The rupture in intelligence-sharing, confirmed by the CIA director, involves the targeting of U.S.-provided weapons critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia.