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The Pentagon is investing nearly half a billion dollars in a Maine-based defense manufacturing company to help break China's chokehold on tungsten, a chemical element used to produce armor-piercing ammunition and missile components.

The U.S. is racing ahead with cutting-edge space weapons and is rapidly building the ambitious Golden Dome missile shield, key Pentagon officials said Monday, even as military leaders unveiled new steps to protect American airpower assets from cheap,

Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday said the U.S. has been in contact with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as the rebel group consolidates its control over the country's western coastline and deepens its influence over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait ...

The U.S. faces rapidly evolving challenges around the world and must move faster to deploy advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and massed drones, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in a federal case that accused him of bribing officials to win lucrative contracts to import food at a time of widespread hardship in the South American ...

Sweden may face a long wait for a new government as preliminary election results on Monday showed a thin and still-uncertain lead for the left-leaning opposition, while a hard-right anti-immigration party saw its support slip.

President Trump said Monday that the U.S. is delivering "exquisite and elite" weapons to troops in the Middle East, despite multiple analyst reports that the military's stockpiles are dwindling because of the war in Iran.

The search for survivors of a capsized ferry in Indonesia intensified Monday as 17 ships and aircraft from the military, police and other agencies were deployed to join the search for 129 missing after a ferry overturned in the Java Sea on Sunday.

The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact Monday that threatens to lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom.

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed Monday that the U.S. military now has an "on-orbit" space weapon.