National security

U.S. 01/18/21, 23:29

A Democrat from Tennessee accused military reserves of being a national security risk. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) raised eyebrows after claiming the National Guard was becoming a danger to America's stability. Cohen recently claimed nearly all National Guardsmen are white males and cannot be trusted because many of them might have voted ...

D.C. 01/17/21, 23:38

A Democrat that failed to remove the president from office wants to exclude the incumbent from future discussions about national security. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has publicly opposed allowing President Donald Trump to attend any further post presidency intelligence briefings. "There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence ...

U.S. 12/20/20, 23:08

Facebook has a business arrangement with an app company that has connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the app is utilized to check facts, something very controversial in recent weeks. Lead Stories is a company that has been contracted to Facebook as a fact-checker since February 2019, and it ...

2020 Campaign 11/10/20, 17:39

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is confident President Trump will win re-election, despite what the polls and mainstream media tell us. A reporter asked Pompeo on Tuesday if the State Department was ready to work with the Biden transition team, and if they were not prepared to do so, could a ...

2020 Campaign 09/29/20, 03:32

An elected official responsible for ensuring the Democratic Party passes legislation in the House called that the money the president privately owes a threat to national safety. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strangely compared President Donald Trump's personal debt to significant national security risks like terrorism, war, or even espionage. "This president ...

Asia & Pacific 10/30/19, 03:08

U.S. national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will represent President Donald Trump at two regional summits in Thailand this weekend, the White House announced, a move that would widely be viewed in the region as a snub. The decision to send O'Brien, who is a presidential ...

World 06/25/19, 03:27

Iran on Tuesday sharply criticized new U.S. sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's supreme leader and other top officials, saying the measures spell the "permanent closure" for diplomacy between the two nations. For his part, Iran's president described the White House as "afflicted by mental retardation." President Hassan Rouhani went on to ...

Asia & Pacific 06/23/19, 05:17

The Latest on tensions between the U.S. and Iran and in the Persian Gulf (all times local): 1:30 p.m. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Iran should not "mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness." Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday, Bolton said no one has granted ...

Politics 06/18/19, 19:06

President Donald Trump's pick for new Defense Secretary is an Army veteran who served in the first Iraq war and also has experience as a national security adviser on Capitol Hill as well as a defense industry lobbyist. Trump on Tuesday said Mark Esper, his current Army secretary, would lead the ...

Politics 06/13/19, 20:01

Lawmakers and experts are warning that videos altered with artificial intelligence software pose a threat to national security and the 2020 U.S. election. The technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos — known as "deep fakes" — that appear genuine. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says it allows "malicious ...

Politics 06/13/19, 12:46

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has hired a new lawyer, a former federal prosecutor who has earned the praise of President Donald Trump and repeatedly denigrated the Russia investigation. Trump took notice of Flynn's new legal representation, calling Sidney Powell a "GREAT LAWYER" and wishing luck to them both on ...

Europe 05/29/19, 05:49

Less than two weeks after Ukraine's new president assumed office, his staff discovered that his predecessor had apparently gutted out key computer equipment in a meeting room when he left office.Oleksandr Danylyuk, who was appointed chairman of the National Security and Defense Council on Tuesday, said all the equipment from ...

Politics 05/28/19, 22:20

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, a longtime hawk on Iran, is visiting the United Arab Emirates amid heightened tensions across the Persian Gulf. John Bolton tweeted he had arrived in the Emirates for meetings Wednesday "to discuss important and timely regional security matters." America recently deployed an aircraft carrier and B-52 ...

Politics 05/23/19, 18:26

The Trump administration is considering an emergency declaration that would allow it to make an arms shipment to Saudi Arabia without the approval of Congress, two U.S. officials and lawmakers opposed to the move said Thursday. The officials say a decision on invoking a national security waiver in the Arms Export ...

U.S. 05/23/19, 09:37

Huawei, has the third largest market share of smartphones worldwide, after Samsung and Apple. But for all its success on the world stage, it has not done well in the United States. But the world's second-biggest manufacturer of smartphones has just 2.4 percent of the mobile market share in the United ...

Politics 05/20/19, 20:53

As questions mount over President Donald Trump's tough talk on Iran, top national security officials are heading to Capitol Hill to brief Congress. But skeptical Democrats have asked for a second opinion. The competing closed-door sessions Tuesday, unusual and potentially polarizing, come after weeks of escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf ...

New York 05/19/19, 11:51

The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the federal government to step in and investigate whether a plan for new subway cars in New York City designed by a Chinese state-owned company could pose a threat to national security. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said in a statement to The ...

Business 05/09/19, 11:41

U.S. communications regulators on Thursday rejected a Chinese telecom company's application to provide service in the U.S. due to national security risks amid an escalation in tensions between the two countries. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted unanimously, 5-0 across party lines, to reject China Mobile International USA Inc.'s long-ago ...

World 05/03/19, 16:09

Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence, wanted to send his 3-year-old son to Boston for brain surgery and needed visas for his family. After days of internal ...

Politics 05/01/19, 09:27

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has abruptly canceled plans to travel to Europe. Shanahan's spokesman is citing the crisis in Venezuela and the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border. The spokesman, Lt. Col. Joe Buccino, says in a statement that Shanahan decided he should remain in Washington to coordinate with the National ...