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Exclusive: U.S. to slap sanctions on over two dozen targets tied to Iran arms
The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official sa...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump steps up Iran fight in final election stretch
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President Trump is ramping up a fight with both Iran and U.S. allies with just weeks to go before the presidential election.The Trump administration insists all United Nations...
By Peter Harrell
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Q&A: What does banning TikTok and WeChat mean for users?
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The U.S. government is cracking down on the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat, starting by barring them from app stores on Sunday. President Donald Trump has cited concerns about...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S.-Iran relations at a crucial crossroad as nuclear deal hangs on election outcome
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Voters in November’s presidential election will choose how the United States deals with Iran and its nuclear capabilities, according to multiple government officials and exper...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok as China becomes major focus of election
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it is banning China’s TikTok and WeChat services from mobile app stores beginning late Sunday, an unprecedented move that furthe...
By Paul Scharre
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The Army wants to build a brand new exoskeleton to help soldiers ruck faster and harder
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The Army is formally moving ahead with the development and fielding of a powered exoskeleton to help soldiers move faster and carry more while reducing overall fatigue after y...
By Samuel Bendett
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US military draws a line: No more bias against pregnant soldiers
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One day shortly after Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber went back to work as an Air Force pilot following the birth of her first child in 2011, the controls on her jet started malfun...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Are China and Iran meddling in US elections? It’s complicated.
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This spring, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua posted a roughly two-minute video titled “Once Upon a Virus” on social media, including on official Chinese government ac...
By Carrie Cordero
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Report: How democracies can push back on China's growing tech dominance
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A group of researchers from Europe, the U.S. and Japan are proposing a "tech alliance" of democratic countries in response to the Chinese government's use of technology standa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Commerce has questions to answer on data access and national security
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A teenager in Oklahoma uploads a video of herself mimicking the latest dance craze to an app on her phone. Is that a national security risk? Should the government ban the app?...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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China’s coronavirus vaccine shows military’s growing role in medical research
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The largest armed force in the world, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is not known for its cutting edge medical research. But since 2015, it has ramped up recruitment ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Trump administration is considering moving U.S. Africa Command. It won’t be cheap or easy.
The Trump administration’s effort to relocate the U.S. military headquarters that oversees operations in Africa could cost at least $1 billion and create new diplomatic and lo...
By Jim Townsend
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New Pentagon Initiative Aims to Help Allies, Contractors Work Together on AI
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To better compete with China and Russia in developing artificial intelligence, the Defense Department will launch a new partnership with defense organizations from more than 1...
By Martijn Rasser
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Is Palau the key to the Marine Corps’ fight against China?
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During Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s stop at the tiny island nation of Palau he visited civil affair compounds and met with high ranking government officials, building on a r...
By Chris Dougherty
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Trump loves sanctioning foreign countries — but he’s terrible at it
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In his four years as president, Donald Trump has responded to nearly every major foreign policy problem with the same tool: sanctions. Change the Iranian regime’s behavior? Sa...
By Edward Fishman
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America’s problem is much bigger than TikTok
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China watchers are waiting to see how, and whether, Chinese company ByteDance sells its wildly popular social media app TikTok to a U.S. buyer by Sept. 15, as the Trump admini...
By Kara Frederick, Elsa B. Kania & Van Jackson
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Former Google chief Eric Schmidt warns of China’s “high-tech authoritarianism”
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China will lead the world in artificial intelligence if the U.S. fails to spend billions of dollars more on research. Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt sounded the a...
By Martijn Rasser
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What war with China could look like
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Pentagon war planners can envision a conflict with China starting in any number of ways. For example, they fear a scenario that might involve a mass of Chinese military force...
By Chris Dougherty
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Russia’s Got Dogfighting Drones, Too—Just How Smart Are They?
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Russian industry is developing a new, low-cost drone that could function as an autonomous wingman for human pilots. But it’s unclear how much the developers at drone-maker K...
By Samuel Bendett
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3 Afghans accused of links to insider attacks that killed U.S. troops are among Taliban prisoners to be released
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Three Afghans accused of involvement in the deaths of U.S. troops in so-called insider attacks are among more than 300 high-value Taliban prisoners that the Afghan government ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
