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Why Nancy Mace, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller keep throwing fits on camera

Trump officials are playing defense after major staff purges and sensitive leaks less than three months into the president’s administration

The United States has hit more than 800 targets in Yemen since mid-March, killing hundreds of Huthi rebel fighters, including members of the group's leadership, the US military said Sunday.

Missiles fired off the coast of the northern Philippines Sunday as US and Filipino forces conducted their first integrated defence drills, hours after China said it had seized control of a reef claimed by Manila.

US president says after meeting that maybe Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t want to stop the war’; Trump’s US polling figures slide – key US politics stories from Saturday 26 April at a glance

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed dozens of members from key Pentagon advisory boards in a sweeping move to reshape defense policymaking.

Senior officials unsure who to believe after aides fired and chief of staff quits amid look into Panama canal media leak

FBI director Kash Patel accuses judge Hannah Dugan of helping an ‘illegal alien' evade arrest – key US politics stories from 25 April at a glance

Posts circulating on social media this week have praised President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for sending military recruitment skyrocketing

The Justice Department is poised to crack down on leaks of information to the news media, authorizing prosecutors to issue subpoenas to news organizations as part of leak investigations, serve search warrants when appropriate and force journalists to testify about their sources

Pete Hegseth has said America's troops "need to be fit, not fat", after a report by the American Security Project found two-thirds of Guard and Reserve service members are overweight.