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The Navy has paused sexual assault prevention and response training until further notice as the military scrambles to make sure it’s following recent executive orders, according to multiple sources familiar with the move. The SAPR…

When President Donald Trump moved back into the White House two weeks ago, he set up billionaire Elon Musk to lead an effort to shake up government operations. Some are warning that this effort, dubbed the Department of Government…

The Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have offered their workforces a "deferred resignation" offer akin to the one recently…

Elon Musk's recent designation as a “special government employee” only adds to the potential for conflicts of interest in the Trump administration, ethics experts said.Musk, who is running the White House's DOGE effort, is also…

The Marine Corps plans to double its buy of the carrier-borne F-35C variant and scale back its buy of the short-takeoff-vertical-landing F-35B, according to a new aviation plan from the service. The service’s total F-35 buy of 420…

In the early years of the Cold War, the U.S. government embarked on sweeping purges of federal employees deemed security risks. While the Red Scare targeted suspected communists, the lesser-known "Lavender Scare" saw…

Several Democratic lawmakers pushed back Monday at the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, promising to fight the administration and billionaire Elon Musk in court.USAID headquarters…

Senate confirmation hearings Thursday for two top intelligence jobs revealed a growing gap between Trump administration nominees and Democratic lawmakers, not just in terms of policy, but in perceptions of reality. Arguments about facts and…

Relatively little was publicly known about Dan Driscoll before he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s nominee for Army secretary, other than that he was a friend and law school…

Like many Pentagon chiefs who have come before him, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is standing up a task force to support his top priority for the department. In this case, it’s rooting out policies, education, and training that relate to…