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This photo provided by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. military conducts coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia on Saturday.

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  • National Security

Trump says airstrikes on ISIS in Somalia killed terrorists without 'harming civilians'

In a Truth Social post Saturday, President Trump announced successful precision airstrikes on the "Senior ISIS Attack Planner," though didn't provide a name for that individual.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence, arrives for a meeting at the Hart Senate Office Building on Dec. 10.

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  • Politics

Trump's pick for intel chief, Tulsi Gabbard, faces her confirmation hearing

Among the topics that have come up: her stance on an electronic surveillance program, her push to drop charges against Edward Snowden and her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
The U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research in a laboratory deep beneath Nevada. NPR was recently given a tour.

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  • Science

Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, an Army soldier, right, and a Marine stand in front of the gates that separate the Cuban side from the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, June 6, 2018.

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  • National Security

Trump says U.S. will send 'worst criminal illegal aliens' to Guantánamo Bay

The president says up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States could be housed at the facility in Cuba, but it wasn't immediately clear how the plan would be implemented.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a hearing with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2024. The committee held the hearing to question retired generals on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

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  • Politics

Hegseth strips Milley of his security detail, orders investigation into his conduct

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an investigation into retired general Mark Milley — who often clashed with President Trump — and determine whether he should be reduced in rank.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has 30 days to present a plan on how to implement President Trump's executive order on transgender people in the military.

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  • Health

Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military

The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Pete Hegseth, President Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, speaks during a Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Jan. 14.

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  • Politics

Pete Hegseth, Trump's embattled pick for defense secretary, wins Senate confirmation

Vice President J.D. Vance cast a tie-breaking vote as Hegseth overcame allegations of sexual assault, public drunkenness and questions of financial mismanagement to win Senate approval.

January 25, 2025
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  • Tom Bowman
President Trump signs executive actions  at the White House after his inauguration Monday. Among those orders is one labeling Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations.

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  • National Security

Trump wants to label drug cartels terrorist organizations. Here's what that means in practice

The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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  • Business

Trump signs executive order to pause TikTok ban, provide immunity to tech firms

The order follows TikTok going dark for about 14 hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting the service from operating in the U.S. unless it breaks away from its parent company in China.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17 in Houston.

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  • Business

TikTok is back online in the U.S., following Trump's promise to pause the ban

The president-elect said he will issue an executive order Monday to delay the ban while he brokers a sale. The app has returned on web and mobile, but is not available in Apple and Google's stores.

January 19, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Less than a day from when the popular social media app is set to be banned in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying the expulsion of TikTok.

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  • Business

TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

January 19, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Less than a day from when the popular social media app is set to be banned in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying the expulsion of TikTok.

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  • National

Trump says he'll likely give TikTok a 90-day extension

President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying a ban less than 24 hours from when the social media app is expected to shut down.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • Juliana Kim
President Biden will leave office with a mixed legacy on Guantánamo. The prison, down to now down to just 15 prisoners, remains open.

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  • Politics

Biden's Guantánamo legacy 'one step forward, several steps backwards'

After some initial momentum and a few successes, Biden leaves office like his predecessors, with the prison at Guantánamo Bay open, and the 9/11 case unresolved.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Callie Goodwin of Columbia, S.C., holds a sign in support of TikTok outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C. Goodwin, a small-business owner who sells personalized greeting cards, says 80% of her sales come from people who found her on TikTok.

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  • Business

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app's existence in the U.S.

The decision resolves a long-running legal dispute between the Department of Justice and TikTok. But experts say President-elect Donald Trump will now have considerable sway over the platform's future in the U.S.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about cybersecurity in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 25, 2021. On Thursday, Biden signed a sweeping new executive order on cybersecurity.

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  • National Security

Biden issues an 11th hour executive order aimed at strengthening U.S. cybersecurity

One of President Biden's final moves in office is aimed at shoring up critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.

January 16, 2025
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  • Jenna McLaughlin
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