Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking figures in Donald Trump’s administration recently used an unsecured Signal group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. The group chat somehow included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of …
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Top intelligence officials and Republicans are trying and failing to downplay the revelation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and others discussed secret plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen in an unsecured Signal chat group that featured Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief ofThe Atlantic, because someone on …
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Donald Trump installed a former Fox News host with a history of alleged erratic behavior as Secretary of Defense. What could go wrong? Well, we’re barely two months into the president’s term and Pete Hegseth seems to have texted presumably classified plans to bomb Yemen into a group chat that …
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Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was the first Black general in the U.S. Army, promoted in 1940. His son, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force in 1954. Their historic achievements broke racial barriers and paved the way for greater inclusion …
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How does one go about purging a federal department of all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion? At the Department of Defense, it seems that the tactic is to simply input icky woke words into your system search and mark anything you find for deletion — even if it’s a …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to purge its digital footprint of all content that promotes diversity, including months that celebrate cultural awareness. In a memo obtained by Rolling Stone, Hegseth has instructed the Department of Defense’s public affairs team to “take all practicable steps” to “remove all …
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s purge of top military lawyers because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to … anything that happens.” Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream brought up the firings, which happened Friday night, in an interview today …
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On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from the U.S. military. In the order, Trump declared that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” — a transgender troop’s …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first foray into international security policy hasn’t been going very well — and that’s outside of him reportedly inviting a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist overseas with him. According to a Thursday report from The Washington Post, in preparation for his first trip abroad as the Trump administration’s …
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Pete Hegseth —a former Fox News personality who has been accused of sexual assault, alcohol abuse, mismanaging two nonprofits he helmed, and a litany of other indiscretions — has been confirmed as the United States Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, who promised senators he would stop drinking if given the keys …
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