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Russia aggressively recruiting spies at NATO’s edge; Estonian intel cites new twists in shadow war
Guards manning the famous border crossing between this small city on NATO's eastern flank and Russia are vigilant about what counterintelligence officials here describe as an increasingly aggressive campaign by Moscow to recruit spies.
HHS probes complaint of racial preferences in Biden-era healthcare training grants
The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating a complaint that three of its Biden-era healthcare training programs are illegally distributing federal grant money based on applicants' skin color.
U.S., Iran to announce draft of peace deal within 24 hours
The U.S. and Iran are expected to announce the finalization of a draft proposal of a peace deal to end the fighting on all fronts by Sunday afternoon, a source close to the negotiations told The Washington Times.
Poland offers to build permanent U.S. troop bases to ‘clarify’ deployment situation
Poland has offered to build the necessary infrastructure to host a permanent U.S. troop presence in a bid to "clarify the situation" between the two longtime NATO allies, the country's deputy defense minister told The Washington Times.
Poland now has the most capable military in Europe, leadership says
A top Polish defense official said in an exclusive interview that his country unequivocally possesses the most powerful land army in Europe and is gearing up for a drastic increase in defense manufacturing capacity, only a generation after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Pentagon paying Chinese-linked firm to vet Beijing military threats, critics warn
The Pentagon's counterintelligence agency is funding a company with ties to Chinese state financial infrastructure in identifying threats from military firms -- entities that Beijing could use to hide the dangers, national security analysts disclosed to The Washington Times.
Chief of naval operations outlines ‘hedge’ strategy to maintain U.S. dominance
The U.S. is currently incapable of building ships faster than China, so the head of the U.S. Navy is pushing a next-generation doctrine of smarter force packaging and autonomous system integration to sustain American naval dominance globally.
U.S. Army’s nearly $4 billion battlefield communications bet to face its toughest test yet
The U.S. Army's fiscal year budget request, released Tuesday, confirms the Next Generation Command and Control system is its biggest modernization project and a $4 billion bet on becoming the new communications platform for the military's largest force.
Could space-based data centers help power U.S. military missions in the future?
Data centers in space, and perhaps even on the moon, could become crucial to U.S. national security.
If Iran war forces pivot from the Mideast to U.S. oil, all consumers will pay — including Americans
Despite soaring Middle Eastern risk, factors including the tyranny of distance make U.S. and Venezuelan oil unattractive buys for the Asian industrial economies that supply the bulk of the world's manufactured products.
WATCH: NASA fast-tracks nuclear-powered spaceship, aims for interplanetary travel in 2028
The U.S. is developing a nuclear-powered spaceship designed by technology critical to deep-space exploration and national security, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview this week.
Trump says Rep. Swalwell got caught ‘with hands in cookie jar’
Just before embattled Rep. Eric Swalwell said Monday he is resigning, President Trump told The Washington Times that the lawmaker was a "dangerous person" to be serving in Congress.
Conservative group pours $5.5 million into TV ads, activism to boost GOP in midterms
Americans for Prosperity is funneling $5.5 million into a midterm election initiative to promote lawmakers who voted for President Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Ukraine’s home-built strike arsenal carries the war deeper into Russia
From a wartime factory floor to targets deep inside Russia, Ukraine's homegrown drone and missile industry is quietly reshaping the war.
How a Czech company’s $3 million turbojet engine contract blurs line between drones, cruise missiles
A U.S. industrial base built on complex precision weapons and solid rocket motors is starting to look elsewhere as modern conflicts demand high-volume, low-cost tools.
‘Pretty depleted’: Iran conflict drains U.S. munitions as Congress sounds alarm
The Trump administration is expected to meet with defense industry leaders Friday to pressure them to speed production of key munitions amid growing concern from lawmakers about shrinking U.S. missile and rocket stockpiles, sources told The Washington Times.
Republicans unveil bill to block illegal immigrants from becoming armed police
As they struggled to fill their ranks amid a backlash to the blue, some local police departments turned to an unorthodox source: illegal immigrants, including those in the Obama-era DACA program, who have been issued badges and guns and sent into communities.
Newsom’s latest pardon shields attempted murder convict from ICE deportation
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a pardon Friday to Somboon Phaymany, erasing his 1997 conviction on 10 counts of premeditated attempted murder and effectively shielding him from being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘Trading blood for steel’: Army’s new combat philosophy puts autonomous robots on front lines
The Army is investing heavily in a strategy that will team soldiers with autonomous drones on the battlefield, with the goal of leveraging next-generation technology to save American lives, the U.S. Army's chief technology officer said in an exclusive interview.
Inside Ukraine’s drone war: Thunder gods battle Russia’s grinding advance
I'm Guillaume Ptak, Ukraine correspondent for the Washington Times. You are watching exclusive footage from my recent trip with a Ukrainian drone team on the Southeastern Front.