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Hundreds of workers arrested in raid on Georgia factory; president signs executive order in callback to defense department’s original name – key US politics stories from 5 September 2025

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US President Donald Trump signed an order Friday rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War, saying it sent a "message of victory" to the rest of the world.

A Pentagon official reportedly said the U.S. attack against a Venezuelan vessel on Tuesday "directly targeted civilians" because even if they were transporting drugs, they would be considered "criminals," not "combatants"

The president signed an executive order Friday to change the Department of Defense’s name, and Congress may soon consider weighing in.

Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR), long the poster child of Pentagon-backed defense AI, is losing its monopoly grip as a new breed of U.S. startups – flush with capital and Silicon Valley backing – race into its turf. Companies like Anduril Industries, Shield AI, and Applied Intuition aren't just catching up;…

The US president, Donald Trump, has signalled a new approach to tackling the “narco-terrorists” in Latin America, and particularly Venezuela, making it clear he is willing to use military force against them. A report in the New York Times that Trump had issued a “secret directive” to the Pentagon to…

President Donald Trump is rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War -- a name used when it had more limited responsibilities for US Army forces rather than the entire military.

COMMENT: Europe’s every move to try and force Putin into a peace deal is dogged by the US president’s flip-flopping on Russia, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley