Defense

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a press briefing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

SpaceX denies latest Zelensky Starshield claims

Emily Hallas · November 12, 2026 1:12 pm

Navy Secretary John Phelan, speaks during a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on the Department of Defense, during a hearing on budget estimates for the Navy, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former Navy Secretary John Phelan gives $1 million to group aiding sailors and Marines

U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet stand alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Arlington guard scolds Hegseth’s entourage for laughing near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi one of 11 Democrats who failed to vote in Hegseth impeachment bid

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth conducts a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2026. (DoW photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech)

Hegseth ties impeachment efforts against him to attacks on Trump and troops

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Trump vows to hit Iran ‘more violently’ if deal not struck after Strait of Hormuz attack

Mike Brest May 7, 2026 6:17 pm

President Donald Trump attends an event for military mothers in the East Room of the White House, May 6, 2026.

White House disputes Gulf countries’ restrictions led to pause of Project Freedom

Mike Brest May 7, 2026 4:42 pm

Container ships sit at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026.(Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)

US troops disable vessel attempting to break Iranian blockade

Mike Brest May 7, 2026 4:29 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a Mother's Day event for members of the military.

Sarah Bedford: Trump playing Iran deal ‘close to the vest’

Kiara Moore May 7, 2026 11:32 am

Donald Trump Poland Karol Nawrocki US Army

Poland says it could host US troops pulled from Germany

Rena Rowe May 7, 2026 10:33 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a visit, Friday, May 1, 2026, in The Villages, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

The long unanswered question of the War Powers Act’s constitutionality

Mike Brest May 7, 2026 5:00 am

Adm. Kevin Lunday, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard organizing ‘Special Missions Command’ to oversee high-risk operations

Claire Carter May 6, 2026 2:30 pm

Sebastian Gorka, right, assistant to former President Trump, walks through the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy ‘prioritizes the neutralization of hemispheric terror threats’

Mike Brest May 6, 2026 1:01 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration stretches definition of a ceasefire

Mike Brest May 6, 2026 7:00 am

War Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

Hegseth strengthens his hand as he outruns the ‘on his way out hype’

Mike Brest May 6, 2026 5:00 am

Ships wait in the Strait of Hormuz

Trump pauses Project Freedom for ‘short period’ to see if Iran deal can be finalized

Rena Rowe May 5, 2026 7:08 pm

U.S. Africa Command

One missing US soldier in Morocco dove into water trying to save comrade

Claire Carter May 5, 2026 11:43 am