Courtney Kube

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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Trump's objectives in Iran are unclear as talks begin, sources say

Top Trump administration officials do not yet have clear guidance on what President Donald Trump would hope to accomplish with military action in Iran as U.S. and Iranian officials were meeting Friday to try to avoid a war, according to two U.S. officials.
7d ago

Iran ready for talks or war, foreign minister says as Trump weighs military action

Pressure was building on Iran on Friday as President Donald Trump weighed a military strike on the Islamic Republic and the Treasury Department sanctioned several officials it said were responsible for the regime’s brutal crackdown on its own people.
10d ago

First wrongful death lawsuit filed against Trump administration over drug boat strikes

WASHINGTON — Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in October sued the U.S. government Tuesday, accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings

Pentagon shifts focus away from China in new defense strategy

The previous National Defense Strategy – a document published every four years – identified China as the most significant strategic competitor to the U.S.

Military conducts 'lethal kinetic strike' on alleged drug boat, leaving one survivor

The U.S. military announced Friday it had carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” on an alleged drug boat and said there was one person who survived the attack.“On Jan.
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Trump sought Greenland deal that would hand U.S. more control over security

President Donald Trump arrived in Davos on Wednesday looking to negotiate a deal that would give the U.S. more control over Greenland's security and in the broader Arctic region, a congressional official and two former U.S. officials told NBC News.
18d ago

Pentagon orders troops to prepare for possible Minnesota deployment

The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 troops to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, as the state reels from intensifying anti-ICE protests after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says it would be a 'shocking step' for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" that if President Donald Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to Minnesota, "that would be a shocking step."
20d ago

Trump's latest Western Hemisphere fixation: Canada

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is privately ramping up his focus on another target in the Western Hemisphere, increasingly complaining to aides in recent weeks about Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, according to two U.S. officials, a senior administration official and three former senior U.S. officials familiar with the discussions

Protests in Iran appear to have slowed as Khamenei claims Trump personally 'encouraged' unrest

Massive protests that rocked Iran for over two weeks appear to have slowed significantly, as President Donald Trump backs off his threats to intervene.