Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday addressed a report by The Atlantic that claimed he had shared sensitive details about U.S. military strikes in Yemen on an encrypted messaging app to a group chat with other cabinet members where a reporter was accidentally added.
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The editor-in-chief of the anti-Trump The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg was reportedly added to a group chat with Trump cabinet members and other top officials that was created by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to coordinate potential United States military strikes against Houthis two days before they happened, according to the magazine.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George has ordered the Army to review all general officer memorandums of reprimand, or GOMORs, that were issued to soldiers related to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, his spokesman Army Col. Dave Butler told Breitbart News.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming — including on beards, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
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Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on Wednesday sent a memo to the entire department ordering the removal of all official online content promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in line with President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s priorities.
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President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed an email sent by Elon Musk via the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to federal workers on Friday afternoon asking them to reply with five bullets of what they accomplished last week.
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President Donald Trump on Friday evening fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, who was put in place by former President Joe Biden and pushed diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Air Force.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he has already picked investigators who will look into the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News he will “continually review” how to bring back troops who were kicked out or left due to the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he has seen the social media chatter about him running beside “the Hulk,” and is taking it in stride.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is paying “very close attention” to who is executing the lawful orders from President Donald Trump and that woke generals “will have a different job in due time.”
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday while on a C-17 aircraft en route to Germany signed a memorandum renaming “Fort Liberty” back to “Fort Bragg” — the original name of the storied military base in North Carolina.
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The Trump Pentagon, in a memo Friday evening, announced it is kicking out CNN and three other news outlets from their desks inside the building to make space for conservative ones.
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Thursday re-introduced a bill that would permanently eliminate top diversity positions at the Department of Defense, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Army had its best recruitment month in 15 years in January 2025 under President Donald Trump.
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The Trump Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a massive overhaul of its practice allowing journalists to work from inside the building is beginning a program to remove four establishment media news outlets from their workspaces for one year to replace them with new media outlets, including Breitbart News.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has informed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retired Army Gen. Mark Milley that he is revoking his personal security detail and suspending his security clearance, according to senior defense officials.
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday pushed an anonymous smear about Federal Bureau of Investigation Director nominee Kash Patel just days ahead of his confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as defense secretary on Friday evening 51-50 with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie vote.
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Danielle Dietrich, the estranged ex-sister-in-law of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is now claiming he abused his ex-wife, is a lifelong Democrat who is represented by a lawyer working for a prominent Democratic Party-connected firm.
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The Army confirmed on Wednesday that New Orleans terrorist suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar served in the Army and Army Reserve until 2020.
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ProPublica, a nonprofit news outlet that boasts digging deep into “important issues,” nearly published a false news story about Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth but was deterred after Hegseth sent them his letter of admission.
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Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on Monday evening spoke positively about his second meeting with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) earlier in the day, as he works to win over support from her and other senators who are responsible for confirming him for the position.
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President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed support for Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth on Thursday, posting from his account on Truth Social an article slamming the barrage of Democrat attacks on him.
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The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer — who previously pushed the Russia collusion hoax against President-Elect Donald Trump — on Tuesday attacked combat veteran and former U.S. House candidate Sean Parnell for debunking her hit piece on Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) expressed full support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth after meeting with him Monday amid an onslaught of hit pieces from the establishment media.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he has chosen Kash Patel as his next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother apologized to her son immediately after sending him an emotional email in 2018 accusing him of mistreating his ex-wife in the midst of their difficult divorce, according to an email viewed Saturday by Breitbart News.
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New York Times reporter Sharon LaFraniere on Friday published a hit piece on President-Elect Donald Trump’s Pentagon Chief nominee Pete Hegseth based on an emotional private email his mother sent him that she told him afterwards she did not mean and regretted sending.
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