WASHINGTON -- As the geopolitical map of the Middle East and Eurasia undergoes a sometimes violent reshuffling, Washington is sharpening its focus on a critical "missing piece" of the democratic ...

After a federal watchdog found a staff of two overseers insufficient to vet 27,000 research awards for ties to adversaries, namely China, the Pentagon says computers will now screen military-funded ...

Concerned about the slow pace and high cost of weapons production, Pentagon officials have begun talks with General Motors and Ford Motor about producing certain parts. By Farah Stockman Neal E.

CSIS Americas Associate Fellow Henry Ziemer and Ryan C. Berg analyze the findings of an exercise simulating China-Russia ...

US-Iran Ceasefire Live Updates: The attacks shattered a period of relative calm in the Middle East since the ceasefire took ...

The pause in hostilities had been set to expire within hours. The president said Pakistan, which is trying to mediate an end to the war, requested he hold off any attacks. Follow live updates on the ...

Kalshi and Polymarket both use Donald Trump, Jr. as an advisor and are boosting their Washington footprints. The CFTC regulates prediction markets that operate in the U.S. Some Congress members want ...

In-person talks between the U.S. and Iran could resume as early as this week, two people familiar with the ongoing negotiations told NBC News. Coverage of this live blog has ended. Follow live updates ...

U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Robert Ames mans an M240B machine gun in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the ship gets underway, April 15, ...

A year or so after communist China established diplomatic ties with America in 1979, Chinese officials started asking for a ...