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News Articles: National Security

President Trump and Vice President Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 28. Researchers are testing AI's potential for coming up with agreements to end the war in Ukraine.

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  • National Security

Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so

Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
President Trump waves after taking questions from reporters outside the White House on May 8.

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  • Politics

Why Trump is focusing on business deals on his Middle East trip

President Trump is yet to broker an end to the war in Gaza. So the first big trip of his second term will focus on big investments instead.

May 10, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Tamara Keith
Then-Vice President-elect Vance visits <em>Fox News Sunday</em> with anchor Shannon Bream in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11.

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  • Asia

Vice President Vance says India-Pakistan fighting is 'none of our business'

Vice President Vance said the fighting between India and Pakistan was "fundamentally none of our business." Experts say the U.S. used to work hard to de-escalate crises between the nuclear states.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Omkar Khandekar
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court upholds Trump's ban on transgender military members while appeals continue

The justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted the ban's enforcement.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Christina Gatti
In this file photo from Feb. 14, 2025, Mike Waltz speaks with an official just outside the Oval Office where a copy of President Trump's mugshot on the front page of the <em>New York Post</em> is posted.

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  • Politics

Trump says he plans to move his national security adviser Mike Waltz to the UN

Trump said he would make Secretary of State Marco Rubio his interim national security adviser. It's the first time since the Nixon era that one person will do both jobs.

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Tamara Keith
Workers stand inside a special chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The chamber is used to test new conventional explosives that initiate detonation of advanced nuclear weapons designs. The data produced from such experiments is considered restricted.

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  • National Security

DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets

Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.

April 28, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
Demonstrators gather to protest on Thursday against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York City.

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  • Law

U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'

The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

April 26, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
The U.S. military tests its land-based Aegis missile defense system in 2018. Such systems can track and intercept short and medium-ranged missiles but struggle against larger, more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles of the sort used by Russia and China.

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  • National Security

Trump wants a Golden Dome over America. Here's what it would take

Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, would be worth the cost.

April 23, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case involving the legality of the Trump administration's controversial deportation law.

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  • Law

Supreme Court backs Trump in controversial deportations case

The order marks a win for the Trump administration, even if temporary, and it could well be a harbinger of things to come as the administration continues to clash with federal courts.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Christina Gatti
Undue Medical Debt is retiring $30 billion in unpaid medical bills for 20 million people.

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  • Health

Major deal wipes out $30 billion in medical debt. Even backers say it's not enough

Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is leaving the market.

April 05, 2025
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By:
  • Noam Levey
The head of the National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2024. Haugh is the latest of several top military officials to be fired by the Trump administration.

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  • National Security

National Security Agency chief fired as Trump ousts another top military officer

Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh served just over a year as director of the NSA, the spy agency that collects cyber intelligence worldwide. He's the latest of several senior officers fired by Trump.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
President Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington.

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  • National Security

Trump downplays the role of far-right activist in firings of NSC staff

President Trump is downplaying reports that far-right provocateur Laura Loomer influenced National Security Council firings on Thursday.

April 04, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a tariff announcement in the Rose Garden on Wednesday. A Defense Department inspector general has announced he will review Hegseth's use of the Signal messaging app to discuss a military attack on Yemen.

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  • Politics

A Pentagon inspector general announces investigation into Hegseth's use of Signal

The announcement comes after lawmakers voiced concern about whether top national security officials discussed classified information on Signal about a military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

April 03, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
U.S. Army military vehicles, including two M88 Recovery vehicles, were part of recovery efforts for a missing U.S. Army soldier at a training range in Pabradė, Lithuania, on Tuesday.

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  • World

Body of 4th and final missing U.S. Army soldier is recovered from swamp in Lithuania

A week after going missing, the final missing soldier was found, the Army said. The soldiers were operating an armored vehicle that became submerged in a swamp during a training mission.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters on the White House driveway on March 31, 2025.

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  • Politics

White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review

Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped

March 31, 2025
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  • Franco Ordoñez
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