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Hegseth attacks Europe over migration with beach 'invasion' D-Day speech
Sea arrivals into mainland Europe peaked in 2015, when the UN said more than a million people crossed the Mediterranean. Between April…
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Hegseth says clock paused on deadline to seek approval for Iran war
"Implementing the U.S. blockade is not without risk, and itself is hostilities. Given the fragility of the ceasefire and President Trump's…
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Trump and Hegseth Face New War Crime Allegation Over Drug Boat Strikes
He then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the…
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Mark Kelly Hits Defense Secretary Hegseth With Major Lawsuit
McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram,…
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RFK Jr. Parrots Pete Hegseth, Says America Is Too Fat for War
“What’s allowed him to escape, you know, Houdini-like, is the Roberts court and the fact that he’s been able to manipulate the levers of…
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Wannabe Christian Crusader Pete Hegseth Is Just Getting Started
Peter Brian Hegseth is an Iraq War veteran and former alcoholic with a rape allegation, a crusader’s mentality (and crusader’s tattoos),…
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Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio Wreck Trump’s Biggest Boat Strike Claim
The U.S. military has conducted at least 25 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on the basis that the small watercraft…
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Pete Hegseth declines to release full video of widely debated Sept. 2 strikes on drug boat
The Pentagon does not plan to release the full video of strikes conducted on a drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September. Source…
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Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat that killed survivors in the Caribbean
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two…
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GOP Uses Budget to Try to Force Pete Hegseth to Release Strike Video
House Republicans have voted to punish Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for not releasing footage of the Pentagon’s extrajudicial executions…
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Transcript: Hegseth Case on Strike Collapsing as Damning New Leaks Hit
Bridgeman: Well, the thing to keep in mind here is that there’s absolutely nothing, no set of facts, right, that you could look at that…
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Hegseth Defense Collapsing as Fresh Leaks on Strikes Grow More Damning
Pete Hegseth’s defense of the killing of two men clinging to an incapacitated boat is falling apart on multiple fronts. Lawmakers who saw…
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Report: Hegseth Gave Order to Kill Boat Operators Because They Were on a Target List
Is the Trump administration claiming the power to do what previous administrations have done: compile lists of ‘enemy combatants’ and kill…
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Sleepy Trump Dreams of Zohran Mamdani While Pete Hegseth Rants About Booze in Wacky ‘SNL’ Cold Open
Donald Trump didn’t throw much support behind Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in the cold open of the Dec. 6 episode of “Saturday Night…
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Hegseth defends strike on drug-boat survivors, touts Trump's Reagan-style defense policies
President Trump is the true heir to Ronald Reagan when it comes to championing the former president's policy of "peace through strength,"…
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Pete Hegseth Dodges Key Question About Boat Strike
On Truth Social, the president called Schiff a “Trump hating loser” and questioned the integrity of the Fox News program—of which he is,…
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Cowardly Pete Hegseth Is This Week’s Proof of the GOP’s Moral Rot
Pete Hegseth is having one of the worst weeks a Cabinet secretary has had in recent American history. It’s very richly deserved. He’s a…
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Hegseth Lied About Key Detail on Boat Bombing According to Video
Providing full-time security detail for his girlfriend, and pulling a SWAT team away from their job is questionable use of government…
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Pete Hegseth Brags About Bombing Another Boat As Outrage Grows
“We concluded that the Secretary sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information that he determined did not require classification over…
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The Blacklisted Pentagon Press Is Taking Pete Hegseth to Court
At the crux of the lawsuit is that the Pentagon is engaging in viewpoint discrimination, which is generally forbidden by the First…
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Boat strike briefings help Hegseth - but shipwreck video release may hurt
In the days after a Washington Post report raised questions about a September strikeby the US military on a suspected drug trafficking…
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Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
Republicans who have seen the video have insisted this was all lawful. Senator Tom Cotton, for instance, said it showed the two survivors…
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Hegseth Gave Signalgate Probe Little as Possible—and Still Got Wrecked
The Office of the Inspector General’s Signalgate report is out, and it does not fully exonerate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, regardless…