The next Defense Department budget will be the highest in America's history, reaching nearly $900 billion. Just last week, the House Armed Services Committee sent its version to the floor for a vote.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to China this weekend on a long-awaited trip to possibly smooth the waters between the two countries. The high-stakes visit just got more complicated, however, with word that hackers backed by the Chinese government have attacked computer networks worldwide.
Looking at the vastness of Utah Beach, its sand blowing in strong wind and bright sunshine, made Robert Gibson’s memory of D-Day even more vivid. “It was tough,” the 99-year-old veteran said of the moment when he landed there on June 6, 1944, alongside more than 150,000 other Allied troops.
New video today shows just how close a Chinese warship came to a U.S. military destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday – roughly 150 yards – nearly causing a collision.
There were new escalations in the war between Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday with attacks on the capital cities of both countries.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee met on Tuesday to once again examine the Biden Administration's immigration policies and management of the southern border. Republicans call the situation there a threat to national security.
In the Indo-Pacific region, the U.S. is increasing its cooperation with the Philippines in an effort to counter China's growing aggressiveness. This increased cooperation includes joint military drills and the potential reopening of a major U.S. naval base in the Philippines.
Just days after the expiration of Title 42, the U.S. Homeland Security secretary reports that encounters at the southern border have dropped dramatically. Title 42 was the Trump-era policy that allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants under COVID restrictions.
Asylum-seekers clap as U.S. Border Patrol agents tell them they will be processed, as they wait along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana, Mexico, May 8, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
As the COVID-era immigration policy known as Title 42 comes to an end, experts fear the border crisis will only get worse.