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Two American troops perished in a vehicle crash while deployed near the Mexico border on Tuesday. A third service member is in serious condition after the accident, which occurred near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just before 9 a.m. local…

The Trump administration wants to turn a long stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border into an Army base in an extraordinary move that’s likely to be challenged in court, U.S. officials told the Associated Press on Monday, three days after the…

A Russian ballistic missile attack killed nearly three dozen civilians and injured more than 115 others in northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy City early Sunday. President Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg wrote on social media that the “Palm…

After a two-month vacancy, President Trump has secured his preferred top military advisor. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine was confirmed as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a 60-25 late-night Senate vote. Caine has…

Trio of executive orders seek to improve defense acquisition, exports, and shipbuilding. On Wednesday, President Trump released a flurry of ten EOs and memos, including one to modify his market-tanking tariff scheme and another about…

Spies from China and elsewhere are wooing unwitting current and former federal employees, according to a document from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center released Tuesday amid the Trump administration's efforts to…

SecDef Hegseth vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal from Chinese influence in remarks Tuesday that Reuters reported “appeared fine-tuned, talking tough but offering some assurances to Panamanians still unsettled by Trump's threats to…

A drawdown of U.S. forces in Eastern Europe would make it harder for NATO and the United States to respond to ever-increasing Russian aggression, Gen. Chris Cavoli, commander of U.S. European Command, or EUCOM, said Tuesday—just hours after…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The head of U.S. Space Command is calling for weapons to be deployed in space, the most explicit call yet for offensive space capabilities. “It's time that we can clearly say that we need space fires and we need…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says a $1 trillion defense budget is coming soon, the Pentagon chief boasted on social media. If confirmed, it would mark a significant rise from the current $892 billion defense budget, and at a time when…