9 h. ago Pete Hegseth orders Pentagon to cut top military positions by 20 percent

Pete Hegseth has demanded that the active duty military cut 20 percent of its four-star generals in a further move toward Donald Trump's mandate to cut government waste.

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13 h. ago Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keep pushing the services to streamline their top leadership positions

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1 week ago Hegseth had Signal app reportedly installed on office computer

Defense Secretary Pet Hegseth directed the installation of the encrypted app on a desktop Pentagon computer as a ‘work-around that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space’

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2 w. ago Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siegeGaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scores killed in US strikes on Yemen fuel port of Ras Isa, Houthi officials say

Health ministry reports at least 74 dead in attack that US says was intended to cut off source of fuel to militantsUS military strikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa fuel port have killed at least 74 people including civilians and rescue workers, according to the Houthi-run health ministry, in the deadliest attack since Washington launched its campaign against the Iran-backed militants.The health ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi also said 171 people were injured in the strikes, amid continuing efforts to search for victims. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago WWE star Roman Reigns reveals he supports Trump ahead of WrestleMania

Wrestling superstar says he is a registered Democrat and considers himself a centrist but backs president to deliver ‘positive and competent leadership’

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3 w. ago Airstrike destroys parts of Gaza City hospital as Israel intensifies offensive

Civil defence agency says al-Ahli hospital hit as IDF operations cut off access to southern city of RafahSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageAn Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday as Israel continued its military offensive in the war-battered Palestinian territory and cut off access to the southern city of Rafah.The Palestinian civil defence agency said Israel’s air force fired missiles at al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital. It is the only hospital still functioning in Gaza City after the destruction of medical facilities in the northern area of the strip. Continue reading...

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