Tag: Pete Hegseth

President Donald Trump holds up country name of the USA during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Washington Secrets

Trump given week of wins and fake scandal: White House Report Card

Paul Bedard · December 6, 2025 11:06 am

War Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting.

NSS emphasizes Trump’s ‘America First’ prioritization of US’s backyard

Mike Brest · December 6, 2025 6:00 am

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), House Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member, speaks during the House Select Committee on Intelligence's annual open hearing.

Beltway Confidential

Democrats are choosing cartels over Americans

Elizabeth Stauffer · December 6, 2025 5:00 am

U.S. military strike on suspected "narco-terrorist" boat in Caribbean Sea.

The Democrats double tap hoax exposed

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2025 5:00 am

Daily on Defense

Daily on Defense

Dueling narratives: Boat strike video largely viewed through partisan lens

Jamie McIntyre · December 5, 2025 7:42 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting as War Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on at the White House.

Trump and Hegseth’s fraught relationship with the law of war

Jamie McIntyre · December 5, 2025 5:41 am

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives before the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US kills four suspected drug traffickers in first vessel strike since ‘double tap’ report

David Zimmermann · December 4, 2025 9:31 pm

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

Can we please stop it with the ‘sources say’ reporting?

Becket Adams · December 4, 2025 6:00 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Pentagon asked admiral in charge of boat strikes operation to retire

Emily Hallas · December 4, 2025 3:20 pm

U.S. Navy Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, center, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, are escorted to a classified briefing for top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security as they investigate how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress split after briefing from Adm. Mitch Bradley on notorious boat strike

Mike Brest, Hailey Bullis · December 4, 2025 2:22 pm

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

Official Signalgate review is mixed bag for Hegseth

Mike Brest · December 4, 2025 12:13 pm

Daily on Defense

Daily on Defense

Democrats call for Hegseth to resign after internal watchdog finds he violated policy, put troops at risk

Jamie McIntyre · December 4, 2025 7:32 am