Russian president Vladimir Putin said Wednesday (Mar. 6) that the country’s security services identified nearly 600 foreign spies operating there in 2018, a number American operatives insist is wildly overblown.
Drastically reducing America’s nuclear arsenal will strengthen US national security, nonproliferation expert Bruce Blair, a former US Air Force nuclear launch officer, told Congress today (March 6).
A Department of Defense (DoD) branch that “identifies and develops capabilities to combat terrorism and irregular adversaries” is looking for big ideas.
The tight US job market is making it hard for the FBI to fill its ranks. And now it will spend more than a million dollars to advertise its openings for special agents.
Donald Trump’s aborted nuclear summit in Vietnam this week with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was a step in the right direction, a veteran nuclear negotiator said today (March 1), but the US president is the wrong man to strike a meaningful, lasting deal.
The entire Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit looks like it may have been a costly mistake.
If you see a nondescript-looking Ford Transit cargo van in one of the 33 US states (and Washington, DC) where marijuana has been legalized in one form or another, there’s a chance it’s carrying weed, cash, or both.
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner’s Secret Service codename is “Mechanic,” a new government filing reveals.
A new initiative by the US Army suggests “another significant step towards lethal autonomous weapons,” warns a leading artificial-intelligence researcher who has called for a ban on so-called “killer robots.”
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will pay a private contractor more than $100 million this year to bring detained families and unaccompanied children to shelters and detention centers across the country.
US House members will vote Tuesday on a measure to undo the national emergency president Trump declared in order to fund the $5.7 billion border wall he has long promised supporters, House speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on a conference call this morning (Feb. 22).
Donald Trump is getting a taxpayer-funded barrier built without having to declare a national emergency.
Donald Trump has selected ambassadors who are less qualified than any appointed since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to a new study of previously unavailable government documents.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is working to “temporarily harden” the American side of the Tijuana River “in direct response to the Honduran and Guatemalan migrant caravans.”
President Donald Trump will continue his push for a border wall between the US and Mexico at a rally tonight in El Paso, but his administration has in fact been fortifying the border for months.
If anyone should know what it’s like to be a public figure trying to protect his good name, it is David Pecker.
US troops have hung new coils of razor-sharp concertina wire on the American side of an existing border fence in downtown Nogales, Arizona, covering the steel-slatted barrier in some places from top to bottom.
Donald Trump presented an extremely problematic racial narrative in his 2019 State of the Union address: He highlighted white guests as examples of exemplary citizens while pointing to his black invitees as former criminals who have been reformed and given clemency thanks to his policies.
President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address tonight is supposed to focus on “unity.”
The surveillance state is no longer limited to the state.
Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia consulting firm and defense contractor that Bloomberg once called “the world’s most profitable spy operation,” suffered a $20 million hit to revenue in the recent quarter, as a result of the recent US government shutdown.
The county of Cambridgeshire in eastern England is known for its medieval college town, miles of marshy lowlands, and plethora of bird life. The latter poses some ongoing hazards for US Air Force pilots stationed there. According to a recently released federal-contracting document, the US military is looking to hire a wildlife-control expert for a four-year job that will “focus on eliminating or minimizing wildlife hazards for safe air and ground support operations” at two bases in Lakenheath and Mildenhall.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement couldn’t bid out a contract to provide meals for detainees because so few vendors are willing to work with the agency.
Donald Trump began his day angrily contradicting congressional testimony by his top intelligence chiefs on matters of national security, calling his own appointees “extremely passive and naive.”
