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US national security

News about issues of US national security, including comment and features from the Guardian

August 2024

  • Web camera mounted on computer monitor with blurred icons on black screen.

    Russia launching more sophisticated phishing attacks, new report finds

    State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies and technical aspects

July 2024

  • US president Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office

    Biden gives Oval Office address after assassination attempt – as it happened

    This live coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is ending now. You can read all of our coverage of this story here.

June 2024

  • Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2017.

    Explainer: who is Julian Assange and what are the details of his plea deal?

  • white man wearing black suit and striped red tie with US flag in the background

    Ex-Trump security adviser backtracks on proposal to send all Marines to Asia

May 2024

  • Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House John Kirby<br>epa10418782 Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House John Kirby speaks beside monitors depicting images that the White House says show North Korean arms being transported by Russian railcars, during a news briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2023. The United States will impose new sanctions against Russian private military company, Wagner Group; and will declare it a 'Transnational Criminal Organization' for aiding Russia's effort in the war in Ukraine. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

    Trend of declassifying US intelligence poses serious risks, ex-CIA officials say

  • a side-by-side image of a woman who shot her dog and a man who likes to look at things

    Experts dismiss Kristi Noem’s ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un

April 2024

  • Joe Biden Meets with Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, California last November.

    New Cold Wars review: China, Russia and Biden’s daunting task

    David Sanger of the New York Times delivers a must-read on the foreign policy challenges now facing US leaders
  • Students at a degree ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

    Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

    As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports
  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    FBI chief says Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure

    Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher Wray

March 2024

  • a nuclear explosion lights up the dark sky

    ‘My jaw dropped’: Annie Jacobsen on her scenario for nuclear war

  • A medical worker in red hugs a woman amid scene of destruction

    Ukraine aid back on US agenda – but still at mercy of unruly Republicans

  • Jake Sullivan<br>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan takes a question from a reporter during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    Israeli delegation to visit Washington to discuss planned offensive on Rafah

  • Xi Jinping and Joe Biden meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Indonesia, in November 2022.

    ‘A 1939 moment’: Jim Sciutto on Russia, China and the threat of war

  • US uses loophole to keep 100 arms sales to Israel under the radar amid Gaza war – report

  • The Achilles Trap: Steve Coll on how the US fatally failed to read Saddam

February 2024

  • Planes on the tarmac

    Boeing agrees to pay $51m over export violations in China and other countries

    Company accused of violations including Chinese employees improperly downloading files relating to Pentagon programs
  • Man wearing glasses, buttondown and red tie sits at desk with a waterfront view in the behind him

    Former US diplomat to plead guilty to charges of spying for Cuba for decades

    Manuel Rocha was arrested for allegedly engaging in ‘clandestine activity’ on the communist country’s behalf since at least 1981

    • Putin ‘gains every day’ Congress fails to send Ukraine aid, top Biden official says

    • Cameron warns failure to supply arms to Ukraine will harm US security

    • Spectre of Nato sceptic Trump stalks European security conference

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