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Army secretary nominee talks drones, recruiting, and lawful orders at confirmation hearing

Driscoll has bipartisan support from the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Hegseth stands up anti-DEI task force

Some of the task force’s targets, like quotas and discriminatory promotion policies, don’t exist.

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Army's hurry-up force-design ideas are due in March, chief says

Planners are working against a six-month deadline to recommend force-structure cuts and unit reconfigurations.

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Feds shouldn't take ‘deferred resignation’ offer, warn employee groups, Democrats, experts

They say the purported severance package may lack a legal underpinning—and that Trump and Musk have been accused of reneging on promises to employees.

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Trump offers a buyout to all Defense civilians, other federal workers

How such a massive "deferred resignation" program would work in practice is unclear, both logistically and legally.

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Air Force promises it’s ‘faithfully’ executing Trump’s orders

Gen. Allvin aimed to “dispel a rumor” regarding the removal of training materials related to Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs.

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Trump fires multiple agency inspectors general—without proper notice, watchdogs say

At least a dozen were removed, including the IGs for the departments of Defense, State, and Energy, the?Washington Post reported.

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Hegseth confirmed as defense secretary in tie-breaker vote

The controversial Pentagon chief has pledged to be “laser-focused on warfighting.”

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Air Force shutters quality of life working groups as Trump takes over the Pentagon

The groups had remained active, and even expanded, during Trump’s first term.

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Memo details DOD's 10-day social-media pause

Border-related posts are excepted during the hiatus, which will be used to “refocus communications” around Trump’s priorities, the memo says.

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NATO spending increase could help Ukraine, and possibly US armsmakers

Biden, Trump teams reportedly discussed an arrangement under which NATO's European members would buy U.S.-made arms for Ukraine.

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Senate confirms Trump loyalist Ratcliffe to lead CIA

By a 74-25 vote, lawmakers approve a former director of national intelligence accused of politicizing intelligence assessments.

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Pentagon, agencies must end telework, remote work in 30 days, OPM says

There are exceptions for military spouses and employees with disabilities in the policy, which DOGE leaders have touted as a way to shrink the federal civilian workforce.

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Trump ejects Democrats from intelligence-and-privacy oversight board

One digital-rights group called the move a "brazen effort to destroy an independent watchdog."

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Trump administration to lay off all federal employees in DEI offices

The president has ordered federal agencies to immediately cease all DEI-related activities.

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DHS guts cyber review board as Trump moves against ‘misuse of resources’

The Department of Homeland Security advisory committee was investigating a Chinese hack into U.S. telecommunications.

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Trump repeals protections for transgender service members

Inauguration-day move clears way to limit their right to serve.

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Coast Guard leader fired by new DHS officials

Commandant Linda Fagan had drawn bipartisan criticism from lawmakers who accused her of resisting oversight.

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Trump orders military to plan to ‘seal the borders’

Inaugural-day executive order instructs NORTHCOM to “repel forms of invasion”—a legal formulation that might not stick.

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Everything Trump said about national security on Day 1

From reclaiming the Panama Canal to border security, President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech touched on a variety of military-related issues.