Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of U.S. weapons transfers, a new federal watchdog report found.
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The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to “designated terrorist organizations.”
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“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”
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Trump’s order to send the Oregon National Guard to Portland appeared to surprise Pentagon officials.
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Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.
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Hanafi Muslim and Nordic pagan service members told The Intercept Hegseth's new policy was exclusionary to their beliefs.
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The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while the flow of guns from the U.S. displaces poor people in Mexico.
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Three current Pentagon insiders told The Intercept that new Department of War rules are an egregious assault on press freedom.
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“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.
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A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues.
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