National Security

Ukrainian drones struck the petroleum city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people, including a child, and injuring at least 75 others in what ranks among the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. The strike, roughly 750 miles east of the Ukrainian border, […]

A cyberattack struck Suisun City, California on Friday, forcing officials to pull the plug on the city’s entire computer network and leaving roughly 30,000 residents without a functioning 911 emergency line for police and fire dispatch. The city council voted unanimously at a special Saturday morning meeting to declare a state of emergency after malicious […]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi declared Sunday that no direct negotiations between Tehran and Washington will take place as long as the United States continues to ignore Iran’s demands, a position that hardens the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz and signals that the regime has no interest in compromise on terms short of a […]

An airport worker at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport discovered a drone armed with explosives near a Ukrainian cargo plane late Tuesday, forcing both runways to shut down and marking what German officials called “a new quality of danger” for European infrastructure. The drone sat near the airport’s south runway, close to a Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft. […]

A sanctioned oil tanker carrying more than 800,000 barrels of Russian crude has been leaking oil into a protected marine reserve off Oman’s southern coast for weeks, and satellite images show the spill is getting worse. The 899-foot Caroline Bezengi, grounded near the Hallaniyat Islands since June, now sits in a growing oil sheen that […]

A gunman fired on the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on Monday morning, the second time the building has been targeted this year, and escaped after leading police on an hour-long high-speed chase through the city. No one was injured, but a single shell casing and damage to the building’s facade confirmed the attack, Fox News […]

Acting Director of National Intelligence William Pulte announced Sunday that his office completed a fourth round of layoffs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, extending a rapid downsizing campaign that has reshaped the agency in a matter of weeks. Pulte, who disclosed the cuts in a post on X, framed the reductions […]

Federal prosecutors have indicted a Ukrainian woman for her role in two separate Russian-backed hacking operations that targeted critical American infrastructure, including public water systems and a food processing plant, and the State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on others involved. Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, was arraigned on federal charges after […]

Federal agents showed up at the homes of New York Times reporters last week to deliver subpoenas ordering them to testify before a grand jury in Manhattan, the latest and sharpest confrontation between the Trump administration and a press corps that published details about security gaps in the new Air Force One. Four journalists, Julian […]

Iran attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz over two days this week, shattering a fragile ceasefire and prompting the United States to yank back oil sanctions waivers that Tehran had won barely weeks ago under a bilateral memorandum of understanding. The strikes on Monday and Tuesday mark the clearest sign yet that […]