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The Trump administration refused to share the classified intelligence behind a Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower complaint, citing executive privilege, while Gabbard’s office said unredacted materials can’t be provided and Democrats press for the underlying foreign-conversation documents involving Jared Kushner.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels to St. Kitts and Nevis for a regional summit to emphasize the Trump administration’s focus on the Western Hemisphere, even as Middle East tensions over Iran loom in the background following the U.S. military’s capture of Nicolás Maduro last month.
A federal judge in Virginia blocked the Justice Department's bid to search electronic devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson in a national-security leak investigation, instead ordering the court to conduct the search to ensure it is narrow and properly overseen.
The piece argues that Trump’s national security team has militarized U.S. policy, sidelined the State Department and NSC, and enabled reckless force and domestic deployments, weakening democracy and credibility abroad.
The Pentagon is pressing Anthropic to grant access to its AI technology, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warning that the Defense Production Act could be invoked if the company does not accept terms favorable to the military by Friday.
As Trump prepared to deliver the State of the Union, Democrats pressed for the White House to publicly outline its Iran strategy after a classified briefing on potential military action, with lawmakers urging the president to make the case to the American people and detail goals and safeguards. The briefing was part of a broader set of Capitol Hill actions around security and funding, including ongoing tensions over Homeland Security funding and partisan disagreements on how to proceed with aviation safety and other policy priorities.
Thirteen months after a midair collision near Reagan National, The Post's View argues the Pentagon is sabotaging a bipartisan Rotor Act deal designed to prevent similar crashes, undoing prior acceptance of responsibility and threatening the safety fixes the agreement would put in place.
The Washington Post reports that after a second round of Iran talks ended without a deal, the U.S. rapidly shifted more than 150 aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East, a buildup corroborated by publicly available flight-tracking data and satellite imagery, highlighted by F-22s at bases such as Lakenheath.
A former ICE instructor testified at a Capitol hearing that ICE dramatically cut vital training for new recruits and lied to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to expand mass deportations.
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that an attack on Iran could pose greater danger to U.S. troops if critical munitions are scarce and allied support is lacking, according to insiders discussing internal Pentagon briefings as the Trump administration weighs a strike.
A federal judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, blocked public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's extensive report on Trump's classified-documents case, keeping potentially damaging details under seal as the case moves forward.
The Pentagon and Anthropic approach a pivotal meeting with sharply divergent views: Anthropic seeks to narrow Claude’s use to avoid mass surveillance and autonomous weapons while offering to loosen some restrictions, whereas the Pentagon demands broad, all-lawful-use access and warns it could label Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk,’ potentially voiding contracts. Led by Hegseth and Feinberg with Emil Michael, the talks reflect a larger debate on AI’s role in national security and come on the heels of prior clashes, including Claude’s involvement in the Maduro raid.
The Mexican Navy intercepted a semi-submersible vessel near Manzanillo, Colima, carrying nearly four tons of cocaine and arrested three suspects. The seizure comes amid a week that has seen about 10 tons of cocaine seized overall, with the operation supported by U.S. forces and involving multiple ships and aircraft. The network uses routes La Gorgona and El Desierto from Ecuador and Colombia toward the U.S., with Galápagos and Clipperton as waypoints before reaching Mexican shores and, ultimately, the U.S. market, reflecting a broader crackdown on maritime drug trafficking.
Tory Bruno, the former United Launch Alliance CEO, says he joined Blue Origin to pursue urgent national-security space projects, highlighting the Blue Ring spacecraft’s high maneuverability and plans to add AI autonomy and advanced ground control to enable dynamic space operations as geopolitical rivals expand their orbital capabilities.
The Washington Post reports the Trump administration appears poised to launch an extended military assault on Iran, with the Pentagon massing a massive strike force in the Middle East, despite risks of U.S. casualties and widening conflict, as Tehran could retaliate.