Pete Hegseth
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Trump’s ‘Judgment day’? Why death penalty crusade is bringing back firing squads
Trump is letting the Pentagon revive a killing method that hasn’t been used in decades while the president tries to speed up executions of federal death row inmates, Alex Woodward writes
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Hegseth visits the long-deployed USS Lincoln to bestow a top award before the ship returns home
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier
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Trump swats away question about his ‘take out’ LA and San Diego remark
President refuses to explain rally line that incensed California lawmakers
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Hegseth tells USS Lincoln sailors controversial deployment ‘wasn’t easy’
Pentagon chief tries to play down problems onboard carrier as it returns to dock after 260 days at sea without port call
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Trump-backed Ken Paxton reportedly blames Iran war and high gas prices for midterms struggles as president heads to Texas – live
Leaked audio shows state’s attorney general tell fundraiser affordability is his campaign’s biggest problem; Trump due to speak in Texas on Wednesday
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Trump announces $6.6bn defense shipyard owned by top Republican donor’s firm
Baltimore project to be partly funded by US government but owned by defense firm Anduril, founded by Palmer Luckey
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CNN now has a new owner. What will the future of the network be under Skydance?
CNN has a new owner: Skydance
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Nidal Hasan: Trump orders military base mass shooter to be executed by firing squad
Former army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan faces death penalty for shooting dead 12 active-duty soldiers and a retired serviceman in 2009
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Paramount and Warner Bros. to become one Hollywood giant: Skydance. Here's how we got here
Skydance-owned Paramount is expected to close its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros
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The chaos inside Hegseth’s defense department that left Trump ‘concerned’
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, one of a long list of Pentagon departures under the defense secretary’s rule, has spoken out about his exit. Joe Sommerlad reports
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Whistleblower claims Trump ordered FBI to investigate LA anti-ICE protesters – US politics live
‘These allegations are deeply alarming,’ said Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who received a copy of the complaint
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The one GOP incumbent who’s poised to defy the odds in midterms bloodbath
Susan Collins might be the one Republican who survives a GOP electoral bloodbath, Eric Garcia writes, defying the old saw, 'As goes Maine, so goes the nation'
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Trump claims he’s ‘doing great’ as his approval rating sinks to record low – as it happened
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Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says
Nidal Hasan sentenced to death by military jury in 2013 for carrying out deadly shooting attack at army base in Texas
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Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad - a first for US military since World War Two
Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 unarmed US soldiers and injured another 32 and his execution will be the first by the US military since 1961.
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Pentagon stops using Anthropic tools after blacklisting company, BBC told
It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
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Here’s why Maine’s famous election slogan will be disproven in midterms
Susan Collins might be the one Republican who survives a GOP electoral bloodbath, Eric Garcia writes, defying the old saw, 'As goes Maine, so goes the nation'
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Army secretary who quit Pentagon after clashes with Hegseth breaks silence
Dan Driscoll is one of a series of high profile departures while the defense secretary reshapes the military in his own image. He has now given his first interview to Rolling Stone
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US military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4
The U.S. military says it has attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people
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GOP lawmakers caught off-guard after Hegseth’s surprise 20% cuts to military
Hegseth’s actions have raised bipartisan concerns that seasoned officers — including women and people of color — are being sidelined for ideological reasons
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Iran-US war live: Trump gives new reason for starting conflict
The US president has always said the ongoing conflict was launched to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
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Hegseth orders military ‘stand-down’ so troops can vote in midterms
In a recent poll, 57 percent of likely military voters said they would support a Republican candidate over a Democrat
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Top Democrats slam ‘Trump’s failing economic agenda’ after weaker-than-expected jobs growth – US politics live
Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer criticize president after US added 29,000 new jobs in September, sharply less than the 84,000 economists had predicted
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Hegseth creates Pentagon religious affairs office reporting to him
Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity into his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting worship services for employees and often speaking of the United States as a Christian nation.
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Takeaways from Trump’s latest TIME interview on DC makeover, Iran and affordability
Trump-in-denial grows defensive and curses at a reporter when confronted with straight-forward questions about his second term
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Pete Hegseth creates a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs at the Pentagon
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Pete Hegseth’s War Daddy-sermon about killing and Jesus was truly eye-opening
An energized, wide-eyed Hegseth claimed the entire free press is committing treason before suggesting that more Christian chaplains in the military might help them build killing drones and achieve more ‘lethality’, writes Holly Baxter
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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
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Takeaways from Trump’s latest TIME interview on DC makeover, Iran and affordability
Trump-in-denial grows defensive and curses at a reporter when confronted with straight-forward questions about his second term
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Outrage spreads over Hegseth plan for Religious Affairs office at the Pentagon
Religious freedom advocates fear Hegseth’s ‘disgusting, immoral, unethical and unconstitutional’ move will open the door to Christian nationalist influence
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Hegseth accused of playing ‘Russian roulette’ with US security after latest purge
‘Incredibly competent generals, and he’s getting rid of them,’ said Randy Manner, who retired in 2012 after serving more than 30 years in the US Army
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Musk returns to Trump administration to co-lead Pentagon war study
Musk, who in 2024 threw his support behind Trump and helped his return to the White House, served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he spearheaded sweeping job cuts across the US federal government.
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US is working with Musk and others to build the ‘future of warfare’
New projects will include autonomous killer drones and military protections for the Moon
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Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year – US politics live
Bill Lee pauses state’s remaining executions for the rest of the year after inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injections
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Elon Musk, ‘beardos’ and Fort Trump? Inside Hegseth’s ‘State of the Force’ address
Addressing junior personnel at Quantico, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled six major initiatives to overhaul military standards
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Hegseth’s new ‘field manual’ for troops is filled with his speeches
The 144-page manual was handed out ahead of Hegseth’s ‘State of the Force’ address
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rant
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Pete Hegseth just spiraled into religious fervor while shouting about killer bots
An energized, wide-eyed Hegseth claimed the entire free press is committing treason before suggesting that more Christian chaplains in the military might help them build killing drones and achieve more ‘lethality’, writes Holly Baxter
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The ‘Cornell 7’ and the problem with how to raise our boys
There are no easy solutions here, writes Holly Baxter, but let's start with why we hold the bar so low for boys — and so impossibly high for girls ?
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Hegseth looking to cut a slew of senior military personnel in latest Pentagon purge
Defense Secretary to announce more reductions to high-ranking posts in State of the Force address: ‘Less generals, more GIs’
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Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live
More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups
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Military academies won't give tenure to civilian faculty, Hegseth says
The Defense Department has decided to stop appointing civilians as tenured faculty at U.S. military academies
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Hegseth is set to announce more cuts to the military's general and admiral ranks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to announce further cuts to the number of generals and admirals in the military
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Mounting GOP anger at Hegseth could hamper his $1.5T bid for military funds: report
Republicans unhappy with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over Iran war and Pentagon turmoil – and could block mammoth budget request as a result
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News organizations barred from White House by Trump ask federal court to block ban until case is resolved – US politics live
CNN, MS Now and Politico say administration has ‘persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently implementing its ban’ despite a judge’s restraining order
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Trump doubles down on claims US will win war with Iran ‘one way or another’ as talks are in doubt – as it happened
President claims US negotiators spoke with Iranian officials through intermediaries after Iran says it ‘has no plans to negotiate with US’
