Defense
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US launches unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile in test of the weapon system
April 26, 2017 -
The White House says President Donald Trump did not attend the entire meeting with senators who gathered to discuss the crisis in North Korea
April 26, 2017 -
Congressional Republicans have a new talking point about President Donald Trump's border wall: It's not really a wall
April 26, 2017 -
A hard-line candidate in Iran's upcoming presidential election says the United States should be made to fear Iran so that it will back off on sanctions and threats
April 26, 2017 -
In this week's edition of On DoD, Peter Kim, the Air Force's chief technology officer, Alex Rice, the CTO at HackerOne, and Reina Staley, the chief of staff of the Defense Digital Service join is to talk about the latest of DoD's bug bounties: Hack the Air Force. We’ll also talk about changes in how the Army buys cloud computing services as part of a broader effort to shut down expensive, government-owned data centers.
April 26, 2017 -
Iranian media says "terrorists" have killed 10 Iranian border guards on the frontier with Pakistan and wounded three others
April 26, 2017 -
A jailhouse friend of Aaron Hernandez is suggesting the former NFL star hinted at his suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in his prison cell last week
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's pick to be the CIA's top lawyer says it would take a change in U.S. law to restart the program that allowed harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists in detention
April 26, 2017 -
After years of steady declines, spending on contracts by the armed forces and Defense agencies are heading back up. Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial initiatives group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
April 26, 2017 -
South Korean presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has outraged members of the country's persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television debate that he opposes homosexuality
April 26, 2017 -
Egypt's government and its top Muslim religious institution, Al-Azhar, are in an angry fight over how to modernize the faith to counter radicals like the Islamic State group
April 26, 2017 -
British lawmakers say a U.K. man killed by a Royal Air Force drone strike in Syria had been an Islamic State group attack planner who posed a "very serious threat" to Britain
April 26, 2017 -
A North Carolina prosecutor says an Army veteran and her boyfriend, who's also a soldier, can be heard laughing as they filmed themselves fatally shooting her service dog
April 26, 2017 -
Israel's hawkish former defense minister attacks government, says he'll challenge it in next election
April 26, 2017 -
China has launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defense industries
April 26, 2017
