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Messages relayed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over a March Signal chat regarding the U.S. plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen came from a email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” according to the ...

The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the ...

Internal emails released to BI show West Point staffers had to query an "out-of-use database" to find the record.

GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who helped lead the effort to change military base names, voted for a draft law defunding efforts to ...

A House committee attempted to ban Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from using official ... and inclusion policies in the military. The House Armed Services Committee passed an amendment to its annual ...

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