The Trump administration is considering reducing the size of several national monuments in the West to open up more land for energy development, according to The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on tariffs on dozens of countries, but also increased the tariff on China to 125%. 

President Donald Trump’s senior national security officials accidentally shared sensitive details about its strike plans on the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen with the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic through the encrypted messaging app Signal. 

The FBI arrested two active-duty U.S. Army soldiers and a former soldier for allegedly selling national defense information to China. "Jian Zhao, and Li Tian, active-duty U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, along with Ruoyu Duan, a former U.S. Army soldier, were arrested today following indictments by federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington," the Department of Justice said in a Thursday press release.

President Donald Trump’s decision to remove General Charles Q. Brown Jr. from his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) has ignited a debate between the left, right, and pundits regarding the president’s power over military leadership and the broader implications of such a decision. President Trump’s decision shines a spotlight on the constitutional, legal, and historical dimensions that empower the president to make these changes while also considering the potential ramifications of this move on Pentagon governance, military cohesion, and our national security.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said Friday that Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelensky will sign a deal for the U.S. to get access to Ukraine's minerals.  “President Zelensky is going to sign that deal,” Waltz said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “What better could you have for Ukraine than economic partnership with the United States?”

Vice President JD Vance on Friday, used his first major speech on the international stage, the Munich Security Conference, to criticize European leaders for what he considers their stifling opposing viewpoints and of retreating from “fundamental values.” He told attendees biggest threats facing Europe are not from China or Russia, but the issue of mass migration and laws that restrict free speech, according to The Hill newspaper. 

After concerns arose last year over the numbers of noncitizens on Arizona’s voter rolls, Governor Katie Hobbs ordered an audit to figure out why there were so many. The audit, which was released last week, examined the problems that arose at the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) within the Arizona Department of Transportation, which offers “motor voter” automatic voter registration to Arizonans conducting driving related transactions. The audit investigated a “glitch” allowing over 200,000 voters who did not show documented proof of citizenship (DPOC) prior to 1996, and found another glitch allowing U.S. nationals to register to vote.  Merissa Hamilton, co-founder of the conservative grassroots EZAZ which performs election integrity work, spoke to The Arizona Sun Times about the audit. "I have little to no confidence that neither MVD or the Governor's task force have identified and resolved all of the issues with the voter registration and management process,” she said. “A voter we identified last year that stated they are not a citizen and do not know how they got registered wasn't identified as being part of this problem investigated by the Secretary's office. Clearly, there are still unidentified non-citizens on the voter rolls. The voters deserve a comprehensive audit of the rolls with a thorough review by DHS. The clown show that our election administration has come to be known as nationally must end. Our taxpayers deserve best in class elections."

Politico Sen. Todd Young said Tuesday he will support Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, improving her chances of confirmation. Facing a wave of political pressure from Trump allies to back Gabbard, Young “engaged in extensive conversations” with Vice President JD Vance in which he sought written assurances about Gabbard’s […]

President Donald Trump on Saturday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Canada border, citing an influx of human and drug smuggling coming from Canada presenting a national security threat to Americans. He did so after a record number of illegal border crossers were reported entering the U.S. from Canada, the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended coming from Canada, and northern border terrorist arrests soared under the Biden and Trudeau administrations, The Center Square first reported.