The agency has 100,000 employees and a $25 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025.

President-elect Donald Trump and NATO chief Mark Rutte ‘discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance,’ NATO said.

The sanctions affect Russia’s largest remaining unsanctioned bank, Gazprombank, a major channel for Russian fossil fuel purchases.

The charges follow the breach of Brazilian government buildings on Jan. 8, 2023, following former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s 2022 election loss.

The FBI and DHS have said they would be willing to brief the Senate on national security conditions in a classified setting.

The strike could be the first use of such a weapon in war.

The Biden administration has been ramping up aid to Ukraine during Biden’s final weeks in office.

The Pentagon said the administration has approved transfers of non-persistent landmines, ‘which become inert after a preset period of time.’

The U.S. government called on Israel to hold West Bank settler activists accountable for violence and the forced displacement of Palestinians there.