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Defense Secretary instructs Pentagon employees to outline job achievements in response to Trump administration's request, emphasizing compliance with feder...

Measure appears to be an attempt to encourage Russia to join talks to end its war of aggression in Ukraine

Boost in soldiers comes despite decrease in border crossings following Trump’s inauguration

A tense and angry exchange between Trump and Zelenskyy played out with the media in the front row – key US politics stories from Friday at a glance

Trump's negotiations and German elections may augur the end of collective security as we've known it.

Pete Hegseth viewed his political odds as being unchanged in pushing Trump to fire Gen Charles Brown

These lawmakers suggest that there is reason to be confident in Palantir even as investors panic

Two UN votes find the US siding with Russia against Europe, as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy prepares for pact on mineral wealth.

Memo says ‘service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the military’ in Trump’s latest attack on trans rights

Building lethality in the military may be the buzzword for the new Trump administration, but busywork and paperwork have become the reality at the Pentagon, as service members and civilian workers are facing a broad mandate to purge all of the department’s social media sites and untangle confusing personnel reduction…

Pete Hegseth reiterated that the Pentagon is doing a "full review" of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan ahead of Wednesday's Cabinet meeting.