Defense & Security

Two Israeli embassy staffers were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025.

The U.S. Air Force executed a successful test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on May 21.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened an investigation into the Biden-era Afghanistan withdrawal, an operation that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have announced the "Golden Dome," a $175 billion missile defense initiative aimed at protecting the United States from advanced missile threats, including those launched from space.

President Donald Trump's special envoy for Special Missions of the United States, Ric Grenell, successfully secured the release of veteran Joseph St. Clair.

The United States is considering the development of a new warplane to be called the F-55, President Donald Trump said.

A former member of the Michigan Army National Guard has been arrested after he attempted to carry out a plan in support of ISIS.

An estimated 1,000 service members have been discharged from the military following the Supreme Court's ruling permitting the Trump administration's ban on transgender-identifying troops.

On May 8, 2025, North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles from its eastern port city of Wonsan, with the farthest traveling approximately 800 kilometers (497 miles) before landing in the sea.

Another F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman was lost at sea from what was believed to be a gear malfunction.