The United States has approved a potential emergency $138 million in foreign military sales to Ukraine to aid the nation in repairing its HAWK missile systems and defend against Russian drone and cruise missile attacks, according to the U.S. State Department. In an April 9 press release announcing the sale, the State Department said it would […]
The top Republican and the Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are calling on the Biden administration to add seven Chinese biotech firms to a Pentagon list of “Chinese military companies.” In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on March 29, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. […]
Victoria Coates, former deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump and vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, says Taiwan is a unique ally to the United States, and the defense of Taiwan is in the vital national security interests of the United States.
The United States will continue to stand with its NATO allies and remains “ironclad” in its commitment to defending member territories, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Feb. 15. Mr. Austin made the comments following a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. The defense secretary, who did not attend the meeting himself due […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa.—A suburban Philadelphia woman accused of fatally shooting her parents and dismembering their bodies with a chain saw has notified officials that she intends to use an insanity defense. Defense attorneys say in a recent court filing that Verity Beck, 44, of Abington, “was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of […]
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday for a 90-day delay of trial proceedings in a defamation lawsuit against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll. The legal move, aimed at safeguarding his presidential immunity defense, comes after the same Manhattan court rejected this defense on Dec. […]
The $886.3 billion defense budget is headed for President Joe Biden’s desk and Congress is headed home for the holidays, its business concluded—albeit not finished—for the year. The House on Dec. 14 approved the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (FY24 NDAA) in a 310–118 vote, ensuring its passage a day after the Senate […]
The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would grant pay back to military officers whose promotions had been delayed for months due to Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) unprecedented legislative blockade. The bill, proposed by Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), was unanimously passed on Dec. 14. This passage came after Mr. […]
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have passed a $886 billion defense bill, which President Joe Biden is poised to sign. See how each member voted below. House Voted for bill: Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) Rep. Colin Allred […]
The annual defense policy bill is headed for the president’s desk, nearly three months late but just in time for a home-for-the-holidays Congress to end its dysfunctional year. House Conservatives raised objections over the massive package’s exclusion of “anti-woke” provisions that the chamber approved in July, including repeal of the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy, and […]
Uranium ore was processed into weapons-grade plutonium on an industrial scale for the first time in a Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. plant north of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, in December 1942 as part of a secret project. That first-generation plutonium, which existed on no manifest, was trucked to nearby warehouses along 19-mile Coldwater Creek, loaded onto […]
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday that the House will consider temporarily extending the country’s warrantless surveillance powers, a key national security tool due to expire at the end of the year. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the U.S. government to collect data on […]
President Joe Biden warned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Oct. 25 not to attack Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, stating that any attack on the U.S. ally would trigger Washington’s mutual defense treaty with Manila. The warnings come after officials in the Philippines claimed Chinese ships blocked two Philippine vessels on a […]
China removed defense minister Li Shangfu from his position on Oct. 24, the latest sign of the opacity of the regime’s decision-making. Gen. Li was also dismissed as state councilor, a post outranking a minister, according to a brief statement issued by state media Xinhua. Gen. Li hasn’t been heard from publicly for nearly two […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday that it has added 42 Chinese entities to the export control list for allegedly supplying U.S.-origin integrated circuits to Russia’s military and defense industry. A total of 49 entities were added to the entity list. Of these, 42 were based in China, and the rest were based in […]
NEW YORK—Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers and federal prosecutors clashed on Wednesday in opening statements over whether the former billionaire’s FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed due to “massive” fraud by its founder or errors in business judgment. Mr. Bankman-Fried, 31, has pleaded not guilty to charges he used FTX customer money from the exchange’s 2019 launch until its […]
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said Friday that China’s recent military maneuvers around the island have been “abnormal” after Beijing sent a record-high 103 warplanes towards Taiwan this week. In a recent update, Taiwan’s military said that it spotted 32 Chinese warplanes and seven vessels near the island on Sept. 21, with 24 planes spotted […]
House Republicans failed for a second time to pass a procedural vote that would allow consideration of the $826 billion defense appropriations bill by the full House. The nearly unprecedented setback comes amid a bitter battle over spending among House Republicans, just nine days ahead of a potential government shutdown. For hardliners in the Republican […]
KYIV, Ukraine—Six Ukrainian deputy defense ministers were fired Monday following the dismissal two weeks ago of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in a corruption scandal, officials said, as heavy fighting continued in the east. Russia claimed to have struck key Ukrainian facilities in air attacks overnight, hitting stores of Storm Shadow missiles and depleted uranium ammunition […]
