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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said plans to rename his agency as the Department of War are “coming soon,” but it remains unclear whether the executive branch can make such a move without congressional permission. During a White House press event on Monday, Hegseth spoke about the deployment of National Guard troops throughout Washington, D.C., and along the southern U.S. border. …

The Pentagon fired its intelligence agency chief and two other senior military officers, weeks after the White House rejected a report that suggested American strikes on Iran had set its nuclear capabilities back just months. The agency’s leaked report contradicted US President Donald Trump, who said Tehran’s nuclear ambitions were “obliterated.” The ousters come amid a widening purge of US …

Now that their preseason is officially over, it is time for the New England Patriots to cut their roster down to 53 players. They already started on Friday, when they parted ways with 14 players, none of which particularly surprising cuts. Now, the tough work begins: until Tuesday 4 p.m. ET, they will need to remove another 24 players from …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Strong practices against Caleb Williams, the Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa and the Bills’ Josh Allen had the Bears’ defense feeling good about itself. “Our goal is to be top five in everything,” defensive tackle Andrew Billings said this week. In the Bears’ 29-27 comeback victory Friday night against the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes showed the opposing defense just …

Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse  The Washington Post Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump  CNN Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief  The New York Times Defense intel boss Jeffrey Kruse ousted  Axios Hegseth reportedly fires the DIA chief, pushing Pentagon purge to a ridiculous new level  MSNBC News Source link

Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief  The New York Times Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse  The Washington Post Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump  CNN Defense intel boss Jeffrey Kruse ousted  Axios Hegseth reportedly fires the DIA chief, pushing Pentagon purge to a ridiculous new level  MSNBC News Source link

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million miles away. The message prompted the spacecraft to execute a series of pre-programmed commands that caused a small, shoebox-sized satellite contributed by the …

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, the head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, according to White House and Pentagon officials, another in a raft of senior officers who have been removed under Hegseth’s watch. The firing follows an initial assessment by the agency in June indicating that strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities …

The US vice-president, JD Vance, previewed in Georgia on Thursday the lines of attack candidates will use to defend the president’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the midterms next year, calling it “the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen”. Vance touted an increase in the child tax credit, the elimination of taxes on …

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million miles away. The message prompted the spacecraft to execute a series of pre-programmed commands that caused a small, shoebox-sized satellite contributed by the …