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Pentagon Chief Orders 20% Cut In Number Of Top Officers

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered at least a 20 percent reduction in the number of active-duty four-star generals and admirals in the US military, a memo from the defense secretary said.

International Business Times

US has a $21 trillion underground network for only the wealthy to hide out in a ‘near-extinction event,’ official says

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.

The Independent UK

Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keep pushing the services to streamline their top leadership positions

The Independent UK

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Some House GOP panels stay quiet in reconciliation text debate - Roll Call

Some Republicans stayed out of the fray as House panels considered their portion of the GOP’s budget reconciliation package.

Roll Call

‘He needs to resign’: Democrats react with quiet shock to damning John Fetterman profile

Pennsylvania senator broke down crying and threatened to skip Hegseth vote, hid serious car wreck that injured his wife, New York Magazine reports

The Independent UK

Australia’s home affairs department has let staff use Signal since Covid lockdowns, documents show

Australian government’s use of Signal comes into focus after Trump administration group chat scandal

The Guardian - AU

What led to Mike Waltz’s ouster as Trump’s national security adviser?

The Signal group chat scandal and Waltz’s hawkish stance on Iran are being touted as the reasons for his ouster as NSA.

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Chainsaws, lawsuits and thundering silence – but no mention of the words ‘my bad’

The Guardian - US

Hegseth keeps 2 aircraft carriers in Middle East for another week for battle with Yemen's Houthis

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has again ordered the USS Harry S

The Independent UK

Trump is planning ‘purge’ of White House staff after ousting Waltz, report says

Others could soon follow ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz to the exit

The Independent UK

'Mike Waltz Left The Chat': Dems Troll Trump National Security Adviser's Ousting, Demand Axing Of Hegseth Next

Waltz has been trending on Google and X overnight following news that he was leaving the administration. Trump soon took to his Truth Social account to confirm that Waltz will be replaced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an interim role.

International Business Times

Trump order targeting law firm struck down; supreme court asked to allow Musk’s Doge access to social security data – as it happened

Judge rules Perkins Coie executive order violates constitution; Trump administration asks supreme court to lift block on Doge accessing data. This blog is now closed.

The Guardian - US

Inspector General expands probe in Hegseth military Signal chats, report says

The Pentagon’s inspector general is looking into how information from a classified system got onto Hegseth’s Signal group chats

The Independent UK

Pahalgam attack: A simple guide to the Kashmir conflict

The roots of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan go back to the turbulent partition of 1947.

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The Independent UK

Hegseth orders Army to cut costs by merging some commands and slashing jobs

A new memo and U.S. officials say the Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 Pentagon headquarters staff and shift personnel to units in the field

Salon

Trump nominates Waltz for UN ambassador

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take over Waltz's advisory role in the interim

Reason

Did Mike Waltz Just Go Down John Bolton's Path?

Trump has hired a notorious hawk as his national security adviser—and fired that adviser after getting in the way of delicate diplomatic talks—in each of his two terms.

International Business Times

US Expects Iran Talks But Trump Presses Sanctions

The United States said Thursday it expected new nuclear talks to take place soon with Iran but President Donald Trump vowed to enforce sanctions and called for global boycott of "any amount" of Iranian oil or petrochemicals.

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The Conversation

How the US ‘war on woke’ and women risks weakening its own military capability

With US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s “proud” cancellation this week of the military’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) program, the “war on woke” has found its latest frontier – war itself.

The Independent UK

How MAGA forced Mike Waltz out of Trump’s inner circle

ANALYSIS: National security adviser’s reassignment is just as much a victory for some Trump loyalists as it is an acknowledgment of his mistakes, writes John Bowden

Al Jazeera

Trump replaces Mike Waltz with Marco Rubio as national security adviser

The US president said Waltz would instead be nominated as the US’s ambassador to the UN, despite his role in Signalgate.

Al Jazeera

Fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks postponed amid continued tensions

The foreign minister of Oman credited the delay to ‘logistical reasons’, but the postponement comes amid new sanctions.

Salon

Waltz out as national security adviser

Waltz, Trump's national security adviser, is out while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is still in after Signalgate

International Business Times

Mike Waltz Praised Trump Admin During Fox News Appearance Hours Before Reports Revealed Trump Plans to Fire Him

Mike Waltz praised the Trump administration during an appearance on Fox News just hours before multiple reports revealed the president plans to fire him.

International Business Times

Top Trump Official Exiting After Chat Group Scandal: Reports

Donald Trump's national security advisor is to leave his post -- the first major departure of the president's new term -- after being embroiled in a scandal over a chat group leak, US media reported Thursday.

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