National security

A mobile security expert told The Guardian newspaper that China is exploiting the global telecommunications system to spy on Americans' phones.

More than 1,000 researchers affiliated with Chinese military have already fled the country amid Justice Department investigations into spying activity, top U.S. security officials said Wednesday.

The Trump administration effectuated a total sea change on Israel, its adversaries and the adversaries of America.

"You can do something that's really destructive," retired Admiral Michael Mullen, who was appointed as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by former President George W. Bush, said.

In a series of tweets, the outgoing president also accused Twitter's trending topics section of showing "absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world."

"It is now time for the rest of the Republican leadership to put politics aside and insist that President Trump cease his dilatory and anti-democratic efforts," the former GOP officials wrote.

The poll, which was conducted by Monmouth University, found 61 percent of Americans saying that President Donald Trump delaying the transition process following Joe Biden's projected win in the 2020 presidential election is a threat to national security.

Robert O'Brien, a Trump loyalist, said that it "obviously" looks like "the Biden-Harris ticket [will be] determined to be the winner" and that the National Security Council will support a smooth transition like it has "even in the most contentious periods" in history.

"Delaying the transition further poses a serious risk to our national security," the officials' letter to the General Services Administration said.

The U.S. is pushing to deploy hypersonic missiles across its service branches to maintain its military edge on rivals including Russia and China.

Moderator Kristen Welker has released the topics she has chosen for the upcoming debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

We, Republicans and Democrats, firmly believe Joe Biden will protect American national security better than Donald Trump.

After Wednesday's vice presidential debate, President Trump called the California senator a "communist" who wants to open borders "to allow killers and murderers and rapists" into the country.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed Joe Biden in a new ad from Republican Voters Against Trump.

According to a Gallup poll, response to COVID-19 ranked 14th in what Republican voters view as "extremely" or "very important" when considering their choice for president.

President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis could pose problems for national security, especially if the vice president also gets the disease.

"Before this election, I have never spoken out for or against a candidate for any office," Robert Cardillo wrote. "But I can be silent no longer."

Jamil N. Jaffer of George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School debates Bonnie Kristian of Defense Priorities.

We are already engaged in a very real cyber war. We must recognize and confront reality.

Nearly a third of active-duty troops told pollsters they have witnessed or experienced a racist or white nationalist incident.

"In contrast, we believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation," the group said in a statement.

A D.C. court announced Thursday it will hear an appeal of the dismissal of Flynn's conviction for lying to prosecutors about his communication with a Russian diplomat during the 2016 presidential transition.

Given recent events, Israel must commit to decoupling from China.

The CIA should not have free rein with a tactic that could implicate the United States in a new war—in the worst-case scenario, nuclear conflict with Russia or China.

We must rebuild the industrial American heartland.

America needs a plan to cement itself as the dominant power in space.

The U.S. should follow India's lead, when it comes to TikTok.

"The Chinese Communist Party believes it's in a generational fight to surpass our country in economic and technological leadership," said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

The World Trade Organization brushed aside a Saudi attempt to lean back on national security in a content piracy dispute with Qatar. This clashes with the position of the current Administration on trade—and sovereignty.

"Trump commingled the personal and the national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of national security," former National Security Adviser John Bolton wrote.