Washington– The Trump administration has given a man convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol a job in the Pentagon’s policy office, according to officials and internal records. “Mr. Elias Irizarry is a qualified young professional and patriot, and we are proud of his political appointment,” Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel … Read more
Washington– A Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender people from military service, a divided panel of federal appeals court judges ruled Monday. The majority opinion by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit largely upholds the March 2025 ruling by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, … Read more
A federal judge on Friday struck down various parts of a restrictive press policy launched by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, ruling that they trampled on the constitutional rights of journalists seeking to cover the U.S. military from inside its sprawling headquarters. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman is a major blow … Read more
The Washington Post brings us a story today that could only be produced by Donald Trump’s administration of influencers. According to two sources who spoke to the Post under the condition of anonymity, photographers from several news outlets were banned from Pentagon press briefings because they had previously published photos that Secretary of Defense Pete … Read more
Washington– The Pentagon on Tuesday identified four of the six American soldiers killed in the first hours of the war with Iran. and Captain Cody A. Khorek, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. First Class Noah’s. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; And Sgt. … Read more
Sam Altman’s Pentagon deal tests OpenAI’s public standing as critics rally behind Anthropic. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Sure enough, Sam Altman managed to secure an agreement between OpenAI and the US War Department amid public battles between Anthropic and the agency. But in doing so, he may have lost something even more valuable: public … Read more
President Trump said Wednesday that he has instructed the Department of Defense (DOD) to immediately begin testing U.S. nuclear weapons on an equal footing with China and Russia. “The United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country,” Trump wrote. “This was accomplished, including the complete modernization and renewal of existing weapons, during my … Read more
The Pentagon has issued a sharp rebuke of Netflix‘s latest hit series, condemning the streaming platform for producing content that officials characterize as politically motivated programming. Pentagon Press Secretary and MAGA diehard, Kingsley Wilson, released a statement to Entertainment Weekly criticizing the Netflix series Boots, which premiered on October 9 and quickly climbed to the top of the … Read more
Washington– President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has ordered the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure U.S. troops are paid Wednesday despite the government shutdown, a short-term fix that will not apply to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers. Trump said in a social media post that he was acting … Read more
The Pentagon said that two Venezician military planes flew near a US marine ship on Thursday in international waters in a “very provocative step.” In a statement posted on the social media platform X Thursday evening, the Ministry of Defense wrote this step, “It was designed to interfere in our NARCO-Terror operations.” CBS News said … Read more