National security

China 10/26/21, 16:19

A former U.S. Air Force college professor conceded he was dishonest about his dealings with a Chinese official on Oct. 25. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Xiaoming Zhang tried to conceal his links to a Shanghai official who tried to exploit his teaching position at the Maxwell Air Force Base ...

U.S. 10/20/21, 16:06

A grand jury indicted a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his spouse for allegedly endangering national security on Oct. 19. The Department of Justice confirmed Jonathan and Diana Toebbe are both charged with one count of "conspiracy to communicate restricted data" and two counts of "communication of restricted data." They allegedly ...

Texas 08/04/21, 04:52

Mexico is prohibiting the U.S from sending illegal immigrant families back home at the onset of the current COVID-19 outbreak, just another step that threatens to aggravate the border surge. The Washington Examiner reports that the decision to prevent a large proportion of non-Mexican illegal families from returning to Mexico is likely to ...

Texas 06/22/21, 17:56

In mid-June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised to strengthen the state's border in an effort to deter ongoing drug and people smuggling, citing a 21-year peak in illegal immigration at the 1,950-mile southern border. As he seeks a third term, Abbott's vow to finish former President Donald Trump's border wall in ...

Space 05/15/21, 23:28

On Friday, May 14, a former Navy pilot said that he and his crew had observed unidentified flying objects (UFOs) on a daily basis in the restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach ever since 2019.  Appearing on CBS's 60 Minutes to talk about his experience with UFOs during his military career, ...

Opinion 05/12/21, 02:41

Military veterans warn the nation is in serious and immediate danger, and America must do everything in its power to avoid disaster. More than 120 retired generals and admirals have declared an ideological war between constitutional freedom and liberty versus socialism and marxism. "Our nation is in deep peril," they said in ...

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 ...

China 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 ...

2022 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 ...

2022 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 ...

World 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 ...

World 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 ...