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The U.S. Navy will pick a builder for its F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter next year, according to the CEO of one of the companies vying for the job—even though the service gutted funding for the program in its most recent budget…

Chinese and Russian aircraft were intercepted in Alaska’s air defense identification zone on Wednesday, coming as close as 200 miles from the U.S. coast, North American Aerospace Defense Command officials said Wednesday. Involved: Two…

Harris’ foreign-policy record under the microscope: On a day when Vice President Kamala Harris wrapped up enough promised votes to secure the Democratic nomination to replace her boss, researcher Aaron Mannes published an overview at…

Breaking: The director of the Secret Service has resigned, one day after an hours-long grilling in a House hearing into how a would-be assassin managed to wound a presidential candidate. Kimberly Cheatle, a three-decade veteran of the…

Ukraine’s innovative use of technology is playing a vital role in the war—but not necessarily in the ways shown on social media, said one analyst who travels frequently to the region. The plentiful social media videos of Ukrainian…

Biden’s drops out, endorses VP Harris: Not since Lyndon Johnson has a commander in chief declined to run again, as President Joe Biden did on Sunday. He began his single term in office amid the COVID pandemic and led a $1.9 trillion aid…

Europe is finally getting serious about funding its own defense, and for this reason U.S. allies there should receive more, not less, investment and engagement, the top U.S. commander in the region said Thursday at a public event in…

IBM employees will fan out to improve cybersecurity in a slew of allied European and Eurasian countries under a five-year contract with the U.S. government's lead development and humanitarian assistance agency.The U.S. Agency for…

It’s official: The U.S. military has formally ended its Gaza pier operation to deliver additional humanitarian aid to thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, which is in its ninth consecutive month. Since…

ASPEN, Colorado—Even as NATO pledged more support for Ukraine in its hot war against Russia last week, news broke of the Kremlin’s latest plot elsewhere in Europe—and alliance members wondered whether a key tool for detecting and thwarting…