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Lt. Gen. John Rafferty, the commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, joins the show from the recent Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama.

A federal judge barred the Defense Department from enforcing its ban on using technology from Anthropic, a leading AI firm, calling the prohibition more a fit of rage than a well-founded policy.

The State Department imposed sanctions on an Italian leftist group that supplies digital support to Antifa and other extremists, including a group in Oregon, according to information released by the department on domestic terrorists.

The Trump administration desperately needs Western Hemisphere partners to help battle powerful drug cartels and stem the tide of Chinese influence across the Americas. It may have a new one in Keiko Fujimori, Peru's recently inaugurated president.

President Trump has declared a national emergency aiming to block utilities from connecting some foreign-made equipment to the U.S. electric grid.

Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, continued his Iran war mediation efforts, meeting Thursday with Iranian officials as the conflict nears its six-month mark.

The Pentagon on Thursday pressed U.S. allies at NATO to prove they are stepping up their defense of Europe as Washington shifts its attention to security challenges closer to home and in the Indo-Pacific region.

The U.S. military is experiencing a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press,

President Trump on Thursday declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not escalate conflict with America's NATO allies.

When President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran in late February, he initially forecast it would last four weeks to five weeks. Six months later, there still is no off-ramp in sight despite Trump's repeated assertions that the war has been won ...