How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Revive Transgender Military Ban
Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.
Tariffs on China Aren’t Likely to Rescue U.S. Medical Gear Industry
The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.
Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe
Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era
While serving as Colin Powell’s deputy during the Iraq war, he found himself at the center of a scandal when he leaked a C.I.A. operative’s name.
China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs
The Pentagon and defense contractors are heavily reliant on magnets and rare earth minerals mined or processed in China, which has suspended exports of the materials in an escalating trade war.
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into ‘Military Installation’
The plan would put a strip along the southern border under Pentagon control, allowing the military to detain migrants for trespassing on a military base until Border Patrol agents could arrest them.
Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.
Hegseth Attends Ukraine Defense Group Only Virtually
Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.