As of July 3, 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at $36.2 trillion. Much like bank loans, the national debt has interest ...

The F-35 is in high demand. See which 19 countries operate it, how many jets they have, and what this means for future air ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

The bill invests in military quality-of-life improvements while slashing social safety net programs that many military ...

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The Senate Armed Services Committee will meet in closed session next week to craft its version of the fiscal year 2026 defense authorization bill. The panel’s subcommittee’s, according to the ...

President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ combines tax cuts and higher defense spending with cuts to programs like Medicaid ...

The Government Accountability Office estimated in June that the full cost of developing and deploying the Sentinel ICBM, ...

But top Republicans on Friday said the actual budget documents only indicate a plan to fund national defense at $892.6 billion, roughly in line with recent defense budgets under former President ...

For national defense, the blueprint proposes $1.011 trillion in discretionary budget authority, of which 95 percent would be spent by the Pentagon. That figure is 13.4 percent above the fiscal ...