From Denial to Defiance: Hegseth and the Fallout of the Venezuelan Boat 'Double-Tap' The U.S. killed two unarmed survivors of a Venezuelan drug smuggling boat after an initial airstrike left them shipwrecked in...
Rubio and Hegseth Meet Australian Counterparts With China Expected to Be Focus Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are meeting their Australian counterparts for annual talks...
Key GOP Senator Says He Has No Objection to Releasing Video of Strike that Killed Two Survivors A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack...
Hegseth Defends Strikes on Alleged Cartel Boats, Says Trump Can Order Use of Force 'as He Sees Fit' Though Hegseth compared the alleged drug smugglers to Al-Qaida terrorists, experts have noted significant differences between...
What Signal Is, and Why It Was Never Built for War Rooms The Pentagon’s latest report makes one thing clear: Signal protects conversations, but it was never designed to safeguard U.S...
300,000 Drones: What Hegseth’s Drone Build-Up Means, and What We Still Need to Know Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to embark on the largest unmanned systems buildup in U.S. history —...
Admiral Says There Was No 'Kill Them All' Order in Boat Attack, But Video Alarms Lawmakers A Navy admiral commanding the U.S. military strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean told lawmakers that there was no...
US Military Conducts Strike on Another Suspected Drug Boat as Probe into the First Strike Begins U.S. Southern Command says it has conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, following a...
New York Times Suing Pentagon Over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s New Press Rules The New York Times has filed a lawsuit to stop the Pentagon from imposing new rules on journalists who cover the military.
Family of Colombian Man Killed in US Strike in the Caribbean Files Human Rights Challenge The family of a Colombian man has filed a formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.
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.
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...
Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families, because those in uniform...