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WAIKIKI, Hawaii—The Chinese government is “on a dangerous course” and its military’s “aggressive maneuvers around Taiwan right now are not exercises, as they call them. They are rehearsals,” U.S. Indo-Pacific Command leader Adm. Sam Paparo…

Kyiv’s allies across Europe are increasingly anxious after the leaders of Russia and the United States discussed Vladimir Putin’s ongoing Ukraine invasion over the phone on Wednesday. Opening moves: U.S. President Donald Trump said the…

The U.S. and Russian presidents have agreed to “start negotiations immediately” to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump said Wednesday after a phone call with Vladimir Putin—adding that he would “inform” Kyiv of the conversation. But…

SecDef Hegseth says Ukraine will most likely not return to its pre-2014 borders during the Trump administration, which he said will not welcome Ukraine into the NATO alliance as part of a path to peace for the country that’s been partially…

Air Force reorganization put on hold. One year after service leaders announced changes intended to serve great power competition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told them to put things on ice until a Trump-appointed secretary and…

The Trump administration has decimated the U.S. government's ability to spot fraud and abuse in the flow of aid to other countries, according to a Monday memo from the inspector general of the lead foreign-aid agency.The memo arrives as the…

Autocracies like China and Russia have an advantage over the United States, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in his first Pentagon town hall. The leaders of those tightly-controlled countries can lay plans that stretch far into…

One U.S. servicemember and three defense contractors perished after a surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday. “The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our…

Trump-Musk’s ‘constitutional crisis’Trump’s spy agency downsizing goes well beyond just the CIA: The Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have all…

The CIA has sent the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer to its employees, the first intelligence agency to do so. An aide to CIA Director John Ratcliffe told the Wall Street Journal that the move is intended to help focus…