Trump Names Acting Defense Secretary With Hegseth Not Yet Confirmed Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of...
Trump Returns to Power After Unprecedented Comeback, Emboldened to Reshape American Institutions Declaring that government faces a “crisis of trust," Trump said in his inaugural address that under his administration “our...
Biden Pardons Fauci and Milley in an Effort to Guard Against Potential 'Revenge' by Trump Retired Gen. Mark Milley says he’s grateful to President Joe Biden for a pardon.
Culture War Fights Poised to Take Lead in Trump's Pentagon Agenda Hegseth's testimony did not delve deeply into how the administration will confront some of the thorniest national security...
Then and Now: What Has Changed as Trump Returns to the White House The old guard of global allies opposing Trump is gone.
It's Not Clear who Will Lead the Pentagon When Trump Takes Office. What Happens Then? As is customary, all current political appointees will step down as of noon EST on Inauguration Day, leaving hundreds of key...
Guard Troops Will Wear a Special Patch at Trump's Inauguration to Make it Clear They Aren't Police The new red, white and blue patch depicts a minuteman, long a symbol of the Guard that harkens back to the Revolutionary War.
Trump Vowed to End the War in Ukraine Quickly but Moscow and Kyiv Are Digging in Before Any Talks Both sides have taken tough negotiating postures that leave little room for compromise.
Troop Pardons Set to Complicate Military's Muddled Response to Jan. 6 As Trump prepares to take office Monday, he has vowed to move quickly on a key campaign promise to pardon many, if not all...
Trump Names Former KC-135 Navigator, Spy Agency Official to Be Next Air Force Secretary Trump said on social media that Troy Meink, currently the principal director of the National Reconnaissance Office, was his...
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...