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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence in a 52-48 vote, making Donald Trump's controversial nominee — whose approval appeared unlikely just weeks ago — the nation’s spy chief.Gabbard, a…

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that will require federal agencies to severely curtail hiring, once the current freeze is lifted, and to develop new plans to implement widespread layoffs across government. The…

Buried deep in the 2025 National Defense Authorization is a short provision suggesting that the Army might—maybe, if it feels like it—look into standardizing the way it procures open-source intelligence-collection software.The provision…

Updated: 6:21 p.m. ET.A federal judge on Monday extended his order blocking the Trump administration from implementing Trump and Elon Musk’s controversial “deferred resignations” program, just hours before the new deadline for federal…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the Air Force to pause its planning for a sweeping overhaul until the service’s Trump-administration secretary and undersecretary are in place and have reviewed the effort.. “On Feb. 6, the…

Autocracies like China and Russia have at least one advantage the United States does not, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in a Pentagon town hall: They can make plans far into the future to change the global balance of power in…

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…