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Hegseth’s big day: Pete Hegseth is expected to become America’s 29th defense secretary in a full Senate vote expected Friday evening. His nomination progressed in a procedural vote Thursday, with 51 of the upper chamber’s 53 Republicans…

Originally published by The 19th.Pete Hegseth told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that he paid $50,000 to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. He has said he was falsely accused over the incident, which became a focus of Democrats in…

New: The Pentagon is sending 1,500 service members to the country’s southern border in the first of what will be several waves of troops that could rise to 10,000 in the coming weeks. That first batch is expected to include 1,000 soldiers…

Extremist groups—particularly in Europe—are increasingly turning to crypto currencies to fund their activities and gather support, according to a new report that also shows that increased reliance on crypto currencies allows monitors to…

Fulfilling a campaign promise by the now-commander in chief, the U.S. military is sending 1,500 more troops to the southwest border, the first of what Pentagon leaders anticipate will be “many additional missions.”Those troops—1,000…

The Coast Guard’s acting commandant just ordered a “surge” of assets in response to Trump’s border-focused executive orders. Equipment and units include “cutters, aircraft, boats and deployable specialized forces” dispatched to certain “key…

Trump’s first day backThe U.S. military must produce a plan to “seal the borders” under an executive order signed Monday by President Donald Trump, Defense One’s Bradley Peniston reports. Under the 665-word order, the U.S. defense secretary…

It is a quirk of constitutional checks-and-balances interpretation that presidents are generally exempt from laws that seek to prevent U.S. officials from acting in their own interests instead of the country’s. Still, modern chief…

Tel Aviv mulls ceasefireWith security group’s OK, decision moves to full cabinet. A ceasefire deal negotiated by Israel and Hamas has cleared the national-security subset of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, and is…

Officials from the U.S. and Qatar say they’ve reached an agreeable ceasefire for Israel and Hamas, potentially ending more than 15 months of war that’s killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and caused more than two million people to flee…