The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked using technology from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, according to a person familiar with the matter. The information came from someone who is not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. The phones belonged to employees located in Uganda and…

The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration. In 2015, French intelligence officials warned…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday the United States would continue to hold Hong Kong authorities accountable for the erosion of rule of law in the territory. State Department spokesman Ned Price told a regular news briefing risks to the rule of law that were formerly limited to mainland China are now increasingly a…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 29 Boeing Co AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Australia in a deal valued at up to $3.5 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The sale is one of a string of Australian purchases in April that included 12 MQ-9B drones and related equipment for about…

As a result of the Trump administration’s efforts in the Middle East, four nations have signed peace agreements with Israel, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, and Sudan. Alongside the peace agreements, there are also signs that Middle Eastern countries are agreeing to proactively tackle anti-Semitism. In this episode, we sit down with Ellie…