Ellen Nakashima

The Philippines is quietly working with Taiwan to counter China washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

The IRGC requires great increases in accuracy if they really want a credible conventional deterrent. At the current level of performance, there is effectively nothing stopping Israel from conducting the same operation in the future with similar results.

China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Pilot makes ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid collision with B-52 bomber washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

NEW: Global hack on governments and businesses using Microsoft SharePoint servers hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Aspen panel on AI and national security. Big focus on adoption of AI rather than tech breakthroughs. Katrina Mulligan of OpenAI: “We could end up in a world in which we [the United States] win the race to AGI, we win on the technology…and people are too scared to use it.”

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the de facto deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, Axios reported, citing three sources. If no deal is…

SCOOP ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings by ⁦@CarolLeonnig⁩ & me washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

All eyes are on Jensen Huang as he visits Beijing this week. Like many analysts, I was shocked but not surprised to see @nvidia’s announcement yesterday that it will resume export of its high-end H20 chips to China. Irrespective of U.S. national security concerns, the company is…

Ignatius reports ATACMS will be authorized for use without range limits. Also, bombing Iran helped persuade Trump of the need to apply military pressure on Russia.

Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary @danbalz is retiring from full-time work at the @washingtonpost after 47 remarkable years. I had the great privilege of sitting next to Dan in the Post newsroom and working with him for years. He is the last of…

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to contact high-level officials. From me and @hannah_natanson washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Travelers no longer have to remove their shoes to get through the regular line at TSA security checkpoints at airports, @CBSNews reports.

SCOOP: The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, per four soures

EXCLUSIVE Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

After U.S. and Israeli Strikes, Could Iran Make a Nuclear Bomb? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

#BREAKING Iran bars IAEA chief from entering country, refuses camera installations at nuclear sites: Iranian foreign minister

Some fireworks right now: Fox’s Jennifer Griffin: “Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?” Hegseth: “Jennifer, you've been about the worst.” Fox’s Griffin: “I was the first to describe the b-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great…

IAEA head Grossi: "I think the word 'destroyed' is too much, but it did suffer enormous damage. The attack led to significant physical damage at the three nuclear sites. What I can say and what I think everyone agrees on is that there is very, very, very significant damage”

Remember amid this fight over intel assessments, over and above damage to Iran nuke program. Israel penetration of Iran leadership and program was and likely remains among its greatest assets. For Iran, crossing nuclear threshold has always been a risk reward exercise. -1-