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Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies.

Iran claimed to have shot down an American F-15E fighter jet Friday and asked for the Iranian public's help to find the crew, while U.S. forces have reportedly mounted a rescue operation to find the personnel before they're captured.

President Trump is asking Congress to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest such request in decades and the latest signal of the president's emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.

A local channel of Iranian state television said Friday that a U.S. fighter pilot ejected from their aircraft over southwestern Iran. The U.S. did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

Iran fired on targets Friday across the Middle East, damaging a desalination plant and setting a refinery ablaze in Kuwait, while American and Israeli airstrikes hit the Islamic Republic as the war neared the end of its fifth week.

The Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office is launching an initiative to wage cognitive warfare -- nonkinetic military operations short of major destructive conflict.

French President Emmanuel Macron and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung agreed Friday to work together to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease global economic uncertainties caused by the war in the Middle East.

Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery joins the show to talk about ways to fix American shipbuilding, the future of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the Pentagon has upended its relationships with other Washington institutions.

Drug cartels have been forced to find new ways to launder their money since the Trump administration has disrupted their activities via Operation Southern Spear, the military and surveillance campaign against transnational criminals at sea.

The White House is set to release President Donald Trump's 2027 budget Friday, a sweeping blueprint that could boost Pentagon spending to $1.5 trillion, the largest of its kind in decades, as the U.S. focuses on military investments rather than other ...