Ministers still wrangling over delayed defence investment plan MPs ask defence bosses why a vital investment plan promised before Christmas is still on hold.

Hegseth on $200B Iran war funding request: ‘It takes money to kill bad guys’ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the Pentagon’s $200 billion funding request, which was sent to the White House for the ongoing war against Iran, saying it “takes money to kill bad guys.”  “I think that number could move. Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” Hegseth told reporters ...

A 'weirdly rushed' appointment - and other key takeaways from Mandelson files A batch of documents has revealed new details about the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador.

Airport security lines are spilling out of terminals. How can you track wait times? Airport wait times have increased nationwide as spring break travel continues amid the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown and as winter storms in the Midwest and Northeast this week have caused delays. As of Wednesday, three Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints are...

Sir John Curtice: Why Labour's Brexit focus has shifted from Leavers to Remainers Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?

The Memo: Frustrated Trump struggles against perception that he’s losing control of Iran war A tide of political danger is rising around President Trump as criticism grows that he may be losing control of the war in Iran. The conflict that he started almost three weeks ago, in conjunction with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was a war of choice. But even a weakened regime in T...

Thune: Rand Paul, Mullin ‘have some personal history’ they must ‘work through’ Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, “have some personal history” they h...

Trump does not plan to bar oil or gas exports, say Burgum and Wright The Trump administration will not restrict U.S. exports of oil or natural gas amid rising prices over the war in Iran, top officials said Thursday. In identical statements posted on social platform X, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “To be clear, the Trump a...

‘We’re going to have a problem’: Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020 Facing a difficult midterm landscape, there's a growing view in the GOP that revisiting election grievances risks distracting from the issues that matter most.

US tells embassies to review security ‘immediately’ The State Department on Tuesday ordered all of its U.S. embassies and consular posts across the globe to “immediately” evaluate their security operations, following retaliatory attacks on embassies in the Middle East amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, multiple outlets reported. Cables writ...