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Air Force reorganization put on hold. One year after service leaders announced changes intended to serve great power competition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told them to put things on ice until a Trump-appointed secretary and…

The Trump administration has decimated the U.S. government's ability to spot fraud and abuse in the flow of aid to other countries, according to a Monday memo from the inspector general of the lead foreign-aid agency.The memo arrives as the…

Autocracies like China and Russia have an advantage over the United States, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in his first Pentagon town hall. The leaders of those tightly-controlled countries can lay plans that stretch far into…

One U.S. servicemember and three defense contractors perished after a surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday. “The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our…

Trump-Musk’s ‘constitutional crisis’Trump’s spy agency downsizing goes well beyond just the CIA: The Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have all…

The CIA has sent the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer to its employees, the first intelligence agency to do so. An aide to CIA Director John Ratcliffe told the Wall Street Journal that the move is intended to help focus…

The Trump administration's assault on USAID will help China and Russia and hurt countries friendly to the United States, current and former government officials say. And it will undermine Ukraine's efforts to fend off invasion and lead to…

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico have been delayed 30 days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa announced Monday afternoon, several hours after Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum forged a similar agreement…

Musk continues assault on USAID, seizes America’s purseJust in: Staffers have been locked out of the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters in downtown D.C., after Elon Musk said Donald Trump approved a shutdown of the…

The deadly Jan. 29 helicopter crash outside Washington, D.C., was the Army’s first serious aviation incident in months—but it came on the heels of a fiscal year that saw the service’s highest rate of serious crashes in over a decade.Army…