Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.
China launched military exercises pressing in on Taiwan on Tuesday, sending warships and fighter planes in what Beijing said was a warning to the island democracy’s president, Lai Ching-te, after he called China a “foreign hostile force.”
Iranian armed forces have called for a preemptive strike on the Diego Garcia military base before America uses it to target the Islamic Republic. A senior Iranian official said military commanders have been asked to target the joint UK-US base, which sits on Britain’s Chagos Islands, in an attempt to deter Donald Trump from striking Iran.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed April 1 that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, as the U.S. kept up its intense airstrikes targeting the group. The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of 20 F-16 fighters to the Philippines, with an estimated price tag of $5.58 billion. The approved package, which covers 16 F-16C Block 70/72 jets and four F-16B Block 70/72 fighters, comes just days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Manilla and pledged greater defense ties between the two countries.
If President Trump’s tariffs and threats shatter the U.S.-Canadian defense partnership, the Pentagon would lose some ability to track incoming enemy threats. Without Canada’s radar sites, “the northern approaches would be severely under-resourced, and we would lose a significant amount of domain awareness and response in the northern approaches, which is the fastest and the easiest approach for adversaries to take to North America,” said Gen. Gregory Guillot, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.
Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command, warned members of Congress that auctioning off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to industry could negatively impact President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome initiative. When asked by Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, if there are worries that auctioning the 3.1-3.45 GHz band could jeopardize Golden Dome, Guillot told the committee he has a “strong concern.”
So-called hunt forward operations by U.S. Cyber Command have uncovered Chinese malware implanted in Latin American nations, according to President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
There are signs that a new AIM-120E variant of the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) may now be in development. Hints that work on the AIM-120E is underway came after the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) put out a notice regarding a sole-source contract that it had awarded to Raytheon (now formally known as RTX) earlier in March.
“It must not be killed or shot at except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.” That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists, and adventurers who were making the trek into the Himalayas and hoped to encounter the Abominable Snowman—also known as the Yeti.
