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The Senate Armed Services Committee usually limits who can view these types of background checks. Lawmakers want to see this one.

Beijing has added at least 100 nuclear warheads to its arsenal this year, according to the Pentagon's annual report on China's military might.

Lightly armed Kurdish forces are guarding more than 9,000 Islamic State terrorists in Syria.

The Senate minority leader's comments, a rare rebuke of the president-elect, set up a potential clash with the incoming administration.

The foreign policy panel has served as a place where Democrats and Republicans find common ground, but that could change under Brian Mast.

Agencies investigating the aircraft sightings said that while they still don't know where the craft came from, they have no reason to believe at this point that they pose any national security or public safety threat.

The Pentagon pick backtracked after conversations with Republican senators seen as potential swing votes.

The Defense Department has publicly rebuked Rep. Jeff Van Drew's claims that drones spotted in the state come from an Iranian "mothership."

The fight over medical care for transgender children overshadowed many of the bipartisan provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act.

A handful of Silicon Valley executives could help transform the country's largest bureaucracy -- and benefit themselves while trying.