Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, an advocate for the fight against sexual assault in the military who has been hesitant to support his nomination, emerged Monday from another meeting with Pete Hegsesth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary voicing cautious optimism.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, faced fresh scrutiny Monday on Capitol Hill about her proximity to Russian-ally Syria amid the sudden collapse of that country’s hardline Assad rule.

Among the manufacturers of fighter jets, tanks and submarines at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum, tech executives were hoping to sell lethal drones, systems to combat lethal drones and advanced software to operate them and other weapons.

U.S. prosecutors are accusing two senior Syrian officials of overseeing a notorious torture center that abused peaceful protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman who was later believed to have been executed.

Since its inception in 2019, a U.S. development agency has created a portfolio of more than $50 billion worth of projects in 114 countries, including a trans-Africa railway corridor, a power plant in Sierra Leone, and solar panel manufacturing in India.

Dozens of drones have been spotted across New Jersey in recent weeks, including near sensitive sites such as a military research facility, which can be frustrating but don’t appear to pose a public safety concern, Gov. Phil Murphy stressed.

The State Department said Monday it is not actively reviewing the “foreign terrorist organization” designation of the main Syrian rebel group that overthrew Bashar Assad’s government this weekend.

The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria for 12 years, the State Department said Monday.

The draft defense policy bill released over the weekend includes the authorization needed to formally set up a new center to coordinate northern border security, with its future home at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

Sgt. Christopher M. Vassey, 38, was returned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Liberty, N.C., after surrendering to federal agents on Dec. 3.

The future USS Arkansas, the 27th Virginia-class submarine, was christened Saturday in Newport News, Va.

Junior enlisted service members are set to receive a 14.5% pay raise next year alongside a 4.5% pay hike for all troops under a compromise defense policy bill expected to be voted on this week.

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Police arrested a 26-year-old suspect, identified as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, and charged him with murder Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking customer spotted the man at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism.

The Pentagon is temporarily pausing flights again of its fleet of V-22 Ospreys after weakened metal components possibly played a role in another near crash, the latest setback for an embattled aircraft whose safety problems have grown.

The monument will be located in Carlisle, Pa., on the campus of a former flagship facility for reeducating tribal children. The U.S. once had more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools in 37 states.

TikTok asked a federal appeals court on Monday to bar the Biden administration from enforcing a law that could lead to a ban on the popular platform until the Supreme Court reviews its challenge to the statue.

A congressional proposal designed to make it easier for government service employees of the military to stay in their overseas jobs past a five-year term limit was added to a defense bill expected to be voted on in the days ahead.