President Trump announced that Fannie Mae Chairman and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte will serve as the acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
America's top defense official has confirmed that the United States and Communist China have agreed to continue negotiations over artificial intelligence guardrails, a development that emerged from hours of closed-door discussions between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Sunday that political pressure on the central bank will erode public confidence in its independence, delivering his sharpest public criticism of the Trump administration since his term ended last month.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces on Monday to strike Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, sending thousands of civilians fleeing the Lebanese capital a day after Israeli troops seized a strategic medieval fortress in the country's south.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a health entity, has vowed to contribute about $60 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
U.S. Central Command intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces in Kuwait late Sunday, the military announced Monday, the latest exchange of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces stretching across the weekend.
Tina Peters, the former Mesa County elections clerk convicted of breaching her county's Dominion Voting Systems server after the 2020 election, is scheduled to be released from a Colorado prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence, the Associated Press reports.
The head of U.S. Southern Command sat down with a senior Cuban general at the edge of Guantanamo Bay on Friday, a direct military encounter so unusual it signals just how tense relations have become between Washington and the communist regime in Havana.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Saturday that the United States will not allow China to seize control of the Asia-Pacific and pressed American allies to raise defense budgets to 3.5 percent of GDP or stop expecting Washington to carry their weight.
