Democratic lawmakers said in a report that shifting Defense Department funding to support the Trump administration’s immigration agenda has hurt military readiness.
The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon’s instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app risked potentially compromising Defense Department information that could have endangered personnel and missions, according to people familiar with the report.
Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.
The suggestion that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or his officials targeted shipwrecked survivors has been galvanizing because that would apparently be a war crime even if one accepts Trump officials’ broader argument for the strike campaign.
The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security, but it is a branch of the armed forces and its members are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as “potentially divisive,” revises harassment provisions and deletes protections for transgender troops.
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