National Security

Capts. Michael Rose (center left) and John Bergman (center right) hold pistols above them after winning the 2019 Best Ranger Competition on April 15, 2019. Bergman and Rose, of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, earned the title of “Best Rangers” during an awards ceremony at the Maneuver Center of Excellence headquarters at […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) confers with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)   Watch Presidents Trump and Moon take questions from the press below:  

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford (center) is seen while protesters hold up signs before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The acting defense secretary is pitching the idea of creating a Space Force as a separate branch of the military to Congress. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images) […]

Per NASA’s press release: A black hole is an extremely dense object from which no light can escape. Anything that comes within a black hole’s “event horizon,” its point of no return, will be consumed, never to re-emerge, because of the black hole’s unimaginably strong gravity. By its very nature, a black hole cannot be […]

Riot police clash with migrants outside a refugee camp in Diavata, a west suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece on April 4, 2019. Hundreds of migrants and refugees gathered following anonymous social media calls to walk until the northern borders of Greece pass to Europe. (Photo by Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images)   See footage of these clashes below:

Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong (center) is escorted by Malaysian police out of the High Court in Shah Alam on April 1, 2019. The woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother was sentenced to three years and four months in jail after accepting a lesser charge on April 1 and will likely be […]

Spc. Jesus Hernandez, 68W, assigned to Regional Health Command Europe, uses the grappling hook to clear a wire obstacle during U.S. Army Europe Expert Field Medical Badge Combat Testing at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, March 29, 2019. To qualify for the EFMB, soldiers must endure a multitude of events such as land navigation, a physical […]

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and China’s Vice Premier Liu He (L) wait for journalists to leave the Oval Office before beginning their meeting at the White House on April 4, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported April 4th that Trump is likely to announce plans for a future summit meeting with […]

U.S. Marine Sgt. Tracey Rodriguez, left, a combat engineer with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, looks on as Lance Cpl. Nadra Khaled, center, an aviation operations specialist and Cpl. Erin Thomas, a law enforcement Marine, both with the 22nd MEU, execute a counter-to-the-rear choke technique during Female Engagement Team training in the well deck of […]

In this handout image provided by Kangwon Ilbo, a forest fire rages near town on April 5, 2019 in Sokcho, South Korea. That nation grappled with the massive blaze that roared through forests and cities along the eastern coast, declaring a national emergency and mobilizing all available resources to bring the inferno under control. (Photo […]

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle upon his arrival at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. After weeks of speculation, the Wikileaks founder was arrested by Scotland Yard Police Officers this morning inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Central London. Ecuador’s President, Lenin Moreno, withdrew Assange’s asylum after […]

NASA conducts a test of RS-25 flight engine No. 2062 on April 4 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test marked a major milestone in NASA’s march forward to Moon missions. All 16 RS-25 engines that will help power the first four flights of NASA’s new […]