44 articles in the National Security category.
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations and the Coast Guard intercepted a 27-foot cuddy cabin near Angelfish Creek, Florida, and apprehended 23 people, including 13 Chinese nationals, the agencies said. A CBP multi-role enforcement aircraft on an Operation...
By Tommy Flynn
The United States plans to reopen a Cold War air base in southern Greenland and station forces at an east-coast outpost now used by Denmark’s Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, three people familiar with the agreement told Reuters on Monday. The sites are Narsarsuaq, where the United...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Sunday he has agreed to convert the planned 250-foot Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle into a “top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch,” citing what he called a “strong request” from the U.S. military and national-security needs. The site sits in the...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland giving Washington “permanent control over security, and all other needs,” on the Arctic island. He posted the announcement on Truth Social and called it an “‘Infinite...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump told Axios on Thursday that he is approaching a choice on the next phase of the war with Iran: whether to resume large-scale attacks aimed at the regime or hold back. “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them [the Iranian...
By Tommy Flynn
Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism, including material support to a designated foreign terrorist...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air, Space and Cyber Conference near Washington on Monday that the United States “now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” He did not say what the systems are, how...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Tuesday night passed a war-powers resolution that would require President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran except those needed to defend the United States or its allies from imminent attack. The roll call was 220–204. All 213 voting...
By Tommy Flynn
The National Security Agency is heading into its largest internal overhaul in at least a decade, a redesign built around China and artificial intelligence rather than the directorates that have defined Fort Meade for years. The Washington Post first reported the plan Sunday,...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to treat a Wall Street Journal account of Chinese satellite support for a deadly Iranian strike as a crisis in the run-up to his Sept. 24 meeting with Xi Jinping. “You know what they say? That China spies on us. I say you’re right, and...
By Tommy Flynn
The FBI added Turkish national Onur Simsek to its Most Wanted Fraudsters list this month and GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst tied the case to a wider effort to stop overseas actors from penetrating federal programs. Prosecutors say Simsek, believed to be in Turkey, used a...
By Tommy Flynn
CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday declassified 71 President’s Daily Brief products spanning Feb. 13, 1998, through Sept. 12, 2001, calling the release “the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever.” Sixty-nine of the items had never been made public. The...