David E. Sanger

Assassinating Yahya Sinwar was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. But getting a cease-fire deal done in the last three months of the Biden presidency is a much bigger reach.

What the soldiers are doing is “left to be seen,” the U.S. defense secretary said.

Experts inside and outside the Biden administration fear that Iran may conclude it has only one defense left: racing for an atomic weapon.

A second Donald J. Trump presidency would almost certainly mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees, untethered to any policy process, at a moment of maximum international peril.

Among a blizzard of announcements on Tuesday, the president-elect said he had chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two of his most prominent wealthy backers, to lead what is being called the Department of Government Efficiency.

China's recent breach of the innermost workings of the U.S. telecommunications system reached far deeper than the Biden administration has described, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday, with hackers able to listen in on telephone conversations and read text messages.

Only in the past week has it become clear that “every major ’phone company] provider has been broken into by the Chinese spy group Salt Typhoon.

One faction of prospective nominees appears focused on revenge, another on calming markets and a third on relentlessly — perhaps hopelessly — cutting people and budgets.

Many ideologies lie behind the veil of “America first” in Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations.