- The U.S. president has refashioned the alliance into something far different from its original intention.
- Even Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee emerged from the classified briefing urging Pentagon officials to give them more information.
- It’s the latest legal victory for The New York Times against the Defense Department’s press crackdown.
- The annual defense policy legislation, one of the few measures almost guaranteed to pass each year, is held hostage by a Republican battle over an elections overhaul.
- Mark Rutte's visit to Washington foreshadows the upcoming alliance summit, which will likely try to paper over U.S. antagonisms.
- The House Appropriations Committee became the third committee to endorse the Pentagon rebrand.
- Some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress expressed concern about the impact of increased military spending on the national debt.
- The two leaders have a history of working well together, but Rutte has a narrow lane to work with between Trump’s demands and the alliance’s fiscal realities.
- Major defense legislation approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee freezes three quarters of the Defense Secretary’s travel budget until Congress gets what it wants.
- The Secretary of Defense initially stated that the waterway would reopen "immediately" after a deal was signed, only to clarify his comment moments later.
- Battlefield gains and drone deals with Europe have given Kyiv rare leverage heading into the G7 world leaders’ summit, even as Washington's attention is elsewhere.
- “You’re bombing what to get what at this point?” said a former Trump administration official.
- The Hazardous Materials Team from the Arlington, Virginia, Fire Department was on the scene to assist Pentagon officials, the department wrote on X.
- The Hazardous Materials Team from the Arlington, Virginia, Fire Department was on the scene to assist Pentagon officials, the department wrote on X.
- “They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” Trump posted to social media Wednesday.
- The nomination of housing official Bill Pulte has stirred wider discussions about trimming the office back — or getting rid of it.
- The number of veterans running for federal office this cycle is up 47 percent from 2024.
- The agency has begun reaching out to lawmakers as it pushes to meet President Trump’s moon landing timeline.
- In an update to faith codes, the Pentagon had classified the religion as separate from Christianity.
- The move by the House Armed Services Committee injects another partisan wedge issue into an already fraught defense bill.
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