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The incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said conducting "vigorous oversight" of the Department of Defense and the Trump administration will be its top priority when the Democratic-led Congress is sworn in in January.

Among the most immediate impacts of the midterm elections that will return control of Congress to Democrats next year are expected major cutbacks and cancellations of Trump administration defense policies and programs.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday accepted the certified results of last week's parliamentary elections as legally binding and began consultations with party representatives on forming a new government.

Top U.S. defense company Lockheed Martin said this week it's pouring $420 million into a facility in Camden, Arkansas, just 13 days after defense firm L3Harris announced the opening of its own 60,000-square-foot facility next door.

North Korea fired a barrage of missiles into the Sea of Japan at roughly the same time midterm polling stations were closing across America, then hammered home its message with an angry statement from a regime VIP.

Russian attacks triggered power and water outages for hours Wednesday across Kyiv and surrounding regions while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll in a stricken village in southern Ukraine rose to 40 in one of the deadliest strikes ...

A cyberattack on several blood banks tried to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said.

Vice President J.D. Vance said Wednesday that Republicans' problem in the elections wasn't that they didn't show up -- but that they did show up, only to cast votes for Democrats.

Spanish President Pedro Sanchez, one of the more outspoken anti-Trump leaders in Europe, dispensed with the customary diplomacy among allies regarding election results and openly cheered American voters' Tuesday rebuke of President Trump.

Indonesia's military is deploying more than 20,000 troops and personnel to the capital, Jakarta, officials said Wednesday, as authorities investigate an alleged illegal wiretapping operation targeting the country's president that has led to the ...