Hegseth Orders New Review of Afghanistan Withdrawal and Suicide Bombing at Kabul Airport Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021...
One Trillion Dollars?! Nine Charts to Help Demystify the Pentagon's Budget Golden Dome, shipbuilding, warrior ethos: Here’s your primer to start following the Defense Department’s billions.
Hegseth's Plan to Cut Senior Military Jobs Could Hit More than 120 High-Ranking Officers Based on the percentages outlined by Hegseth and his senior staff, 20% of the 44 authorized top active duty general and...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the...
2 Aircraft Carriers to Remain in Middle East for Another Week for Battle with Yemen's Houthis Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier to remain in the Middle East for a second...
Hegseth Orders Army to Cut Costs by Merging Some Commands and Slashing Jobs The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft...
Migrants Face a Novel Criminal Charge in New Military Border Zone Immigrants recently detained in southernmost New Mexico now face a novel criminal charge of breaching a national defense area...
House Democrats Force Republicans Into Votes on Hegseth Controversies During Pentagon Budget Debate While debating a $150 billion Pentagon spending bill Tuesday, Democrats offered several amendments to address the drama...
Hegseth Boasts About Ending 'Woke' Program on Women and Security that Trump Had Signed into Law Hegseth in an agitated post on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, called the “Women, Peace & Security” program at the...
Hegseth Had an Unsecured Internet Line Set Up in His Office to Connect to Signal, AP Sources Say The existence of the unsecured internet connection is the latest revelation about Hegseth's use of the unclassified app and...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
