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Rahm Emanuel has been telling audiences that plenty of rivals have learned the hard way what happens when they get in his way.

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.

Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse says he lobbied President Trump to put "that Catholic lady from Notre Dame" on the Supreme Court -- presumably, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says America's founders envisioned a Constitution that would be updated and expand freedoms -- but that expansion has stopped "recently."

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.

Congressional Democrats filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Trump's executive order that imposes stricter standards to obtain absentee ballots and tighten security measures around their use.