Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology. A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns. His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors. Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies. Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets. He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.
As he heads to the Group of Seven summit and weighs whether to pull the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, President Trump is facing renewed pressure at home and abroad and from the Holy Father to remain a part of the deal.
The Trump administration on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, charging that the company used "defeat devices" to skirt emissions testing in more than 100,000 of their diesel vehicles.
President Trump's proposed budget would cut the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve by half, slash oil drilling royalty payments to Gulf states and take other steps as part of a broader plan to bring down federal deficits.
He may have been thousands of miles away in Saudi Arabia, but President Trump on Sunday still could not escape blistering criticism from leading figures in his own party.
Sen. John McCain said Sunday he is "speechless" over President Trump's recent decision to allow top Russian officials into the Oval Office and is struggling to explain many of the commander in chief's actions.
After blasting President Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for avoiding the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," President Trump may steer clear of those same words during a speech in Saudi Arabia.
President Trump will cast the fight against terrorism as a "battle between good and evil" and will tell Muslim countries that it's up to them to decide what kind of future they want in the Middle East.
Newly released documents show just how badly the State Department wanted to get the U.S. into -- and now to remain a party to -- the Paris climate agreement that President Trump opposed in his campaign.
Environmental activists have gone from being the government's closest allies to being nonstop litigants in just four months, filing lawsuits on a weekly basis challenging virtually every move the Trump administration has made in its deregulatory push.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a legal settlement that could allow a highly controversial Alaska mine project to move forward.
Former President Obama is widely revered by activists and progressive Democrats for his actions on climate change, but Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday challenged those credentials and said the former commander in chief was no "environmental savior."
Sen. John McCain on Wednesday handed Republican leadership and President Trump a stinging legislative defeat as he cast a surprise deciding vote to maintain an Obama-era regulation limiting methane emissions from oil and gas wells.
An area larger than Yellowstone National Park could be opened up for fossil fuel development as a result of the Trump administration's ongoing review of national monuments, according to a study from environmentalists who deeply oppose such energy exploration.
Based on the beautiful pictures and effusive praise he has posted to Twitter this week from one of the nation's newest national monuments, you might never guess that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke could set into motion the process to erase it from the map.
Faced with an uncertain future in the U.S., ethanol proponents have mounted a public push north of the border, urging Canada to raise its own renewable-fuel levels for gasoline.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt came under fire Monday after he began cleaning house at a key scientific review board, with critics charging the agency once again is prioritizing politics over science.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Sunday launched a "listening tour" across Utah designed to quell an uproar over his department's controversial review of national monuments.
Following through on an executive order signed by President Trump last week, the Interior Department on Friday released a list of the 21 national monuments and five marine monuments now under federal review.
A coalition of the nation's most powerful environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop President Trump's plan to open up new areas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans to offshore drilling.