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Aide’s rise under Hegseth scrutinized in White House, Pentagon
Pete Hegseth’s 100-day tenure as defense secretary has brought an unceremonious end to the careers of numerous top military ...
Trump plans record $1.01 trillion national security budget
The defence budget will fund the Golden Dome missile defence project, shipbuilding and nuclear modernisation. Read more at ...
Trump stands by Pete Hegseth amid controversy but called for Lloyd Austin to resign—critics say it’s a double standard
President Donald Trump said he supports Pete Hegseth amid the Department of Defense secretary’s latest controversy involving ...
‘He gets him what he needs’: Hegseth’s new favorite adviser helped set up Signal on one of secretary’s computers at Pentagon
Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations ...
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How a Lloyd Austin aide became Pete Hegseth’s ‘only guy standing’
Buria started the year as the secretary’s junior military assistant, a post he took on last April for Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin. The role — abbreviated as “JMA” — is a ...
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Oklahoma City bombing put a spotlight on domestic extremism. What's being done today?
And when it became clear that hundreds of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists had connections to the armed forces, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced sweeping plans to identify and ...
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‘He gets him what he needs’: Hegseth’s new favorite adviser helped set up Signal on one of secretary’s computers at Pentagon
The question came from Col. Ricky Buria, a former aide to previous Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who has rapidly established himself as a key member of Hegseth’s inner circle, multiple people ...