Despite its recent battlefield losses in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has now surpassed al Qaeda in the race to recruit recruiting future jihadis from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere across the globe.
Support for President Trump’s border wall hit a record high in a new Quinnipiac University poll Tuesday, but a majority of Americans still oppose the project, saying it’s a waste that isn’t needed to improve border security.
The embattled Iranian government is increasingly resorting to the most severe punishment — execution — as it tries to tamp down a wave of financial crimes amid an economic downturn fueled in part by tough U.S. sanctions, according to activists and human rights groups.
Yemen’s key port city of Hodeida was calm Tuesday morning, hours after a U.N.-mediated cease-fire went into effect between government-allied forces and the country’s rebels, Yemeni officials said.
President Trump is expected to soon order the establishment of a military space command, a step toward his goal of creating a United States Space Force, according to multiple reports.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday wished ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn “good luck” in court as Flynn awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI.
A Russian businessman who lived a lavish life in North Carolina will remain in jail while he's prosecuted on charges including money laundering and murder-for-hire.
A U.S. Navy hospital ship has returned home after its crew treated thousands of people in Central and South America, including migrants who fled crisis-wracked Venezuela.
The launch of a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has been scrubbed due to high winds in California.
Authorities say an incomplete tunnel has been found under the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora. The U.S Border Patrol said Tuesday the presence of structural shoring and digging tools in the tunnel when it was discovered Monday indicated that its excavation was still in progress.
President Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers are in a standoff over funding the government, and the main sticking point is Trump's demand for $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House on Tuesday stood by claims that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was ambushed into lying by the FBI.
One of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's duties when she deployed to Iraq with the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2005 was to scan a list of U.S. combat casualties for names of her unit's soldiers.
A Harvard University professor and writer for The New Yorker is asking a court to order the release of documents related to two grand juries that sat in Boston nearly 50 years ago to investigate the leak of the Pentagon Papers.
Federal judge delays sentencing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Gov.-elect Kristi Noem has named a military and veterans official in her congressional office to serve as South Dakota's Veterans Affairs secretary.
Facebook on Tuesday faced a boycott led by the NAACP, one of the nation's oldest civil rights groups, after researchers published reports detailing how Russian trolls weaponized its services to target black users during the 2016 U.S. presidential race.
The Louisiana Air National Guard 's 159th Fighter Wing will hold a ceremony Wednesday afternoon for about 100 airmen who will be deployed next year.
Judge tells former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn: "Arguably you sold your country out."
The Latest on negotiations over funding President Donald Trump wants for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and the possibility of a partial government shutdown (all times local):
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The Trump administration's special envoy for North Korea is heading to South Korea this week amid growing uncertainty over the future of direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang, the State Department said Tuesday.
The Latest on the Pentagon's new Space Command (all times local):
