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By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the temporary shutdown of airspace over El Paso, Texas. The interest in high-energy systems has only accelerated as military

By Kevin Liptak, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon is sending a second aircraft carrier group – the USS Gerald Ford – to the Middle East, according to a senior administration official and three sources familiar with the matter, a move that puts pressure on Iran even as President Donald Trump has said talks

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has spent more than $30 million to send migrants to far-flung countries that are not their own, including, in a few instances, paying over $1 million a person, a new report from the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says.

By Brian Todd, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — An Army combat veteran now living in the Midwest was dealing with multiple injuries by the time he finished his military service. He’d suffered a traumatic brain injury after his vehicle struck an IED during his deployment to Afghanistan in the late 2000s. But when the veteran,

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — When Said Noor, a US Army veteran, picked up a phone call on December 2, he immediately knew something was wrong. His brother Lal was in Laredo, Texas, several hours south of their home in Austin, nervously explaining that the commercial truck he drove had been stopped at a

By Em Steck, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said Thursday night she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Her resignation is effective June 30. Her announcement comes as she has weathered numerous news stories in

By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The CIA is ramping up its efforts to recruit Chinese spies by releasing a new Mandarin-language video on Thursday that appeals directly to the country’s military officers who may be disillusioned with the corruption in their current government and President Xi Jinping’s extensive purges of top generals. It portrays