National Security

The annual defense policy bill has long been a paragon of bipartisanship. But not this year. For the first time in the Trump presidency, Democrats run the House Armed Services Committee.

Two very large aerospace-and-defense firms want to become one massive company. But if Raytheon and United Technologies go ahead with a merger, will it reduce competition among military contractors?

When CIA officers walk out of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, they're shadowed by Russian security. A new book examines how they have operated with this round-the-clock surveillance.