Beyond Matt Gaetzthere has been perhaps no Donald Trump nominee with as fraught a path to confirmation as Pete Hegseth. Soon after the president-elect announced him as his pick for defense secretary, the former Fox News host was beset by the publicization of a sexual assault accusation (which he’s denied), as well as reports about […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tencent’s US-listed shares fell as much as 9.8 per cent after the Pentagon designated the tech giant as a Chinese military company operating in the US. The gaming and social media group, which owns ubiquitous […]
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Corruption investigations may have shaken Beijing’s confidence in top commanders, but China’s military expansion hasn’t slowed, a report found.
Speaker Mike Johnson drew criticism for leveraging the National Defense Authorization Act to target medical care for service members’ transgender children.
The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to conduct audits of their systems related to the telecom protocol known as SS7 but have declined to make the results of these evaluations available to the Defense Department. “The DOD has asked the carriers for copies of […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering dropping his nominee to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegsethand nominating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in his place, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. Hegseth’s nomination has run into trouble on Capitol Hill over allegations about his personal and professional life and Trump allies […]
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Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of mass deportations, and on Monday, he said that his administration would use the U.S. military to carry out this expulsion of millions of people, many of whom have lived in America for years or even decades. The U.S. military historically has not conducted immigration enforcement and does not normally conduct law enforcement […]
Nearly every weekday morning, a device leaves a two-story home near Wiesbaden, Germany, and makes a 15-minute commute along a major autobahn. By around 7 am, it arrives at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne—the US Army’s European headquarters and a key hub for US intelligence operations. The device stops near a restaurant before heading to an […]
