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Job cuts delay Pentagon plans to expand work to prevent sex assaults and suicides

Senior defense officials say personnel cuts across the Defense Department will delay plans to hire at least 1,000 more civilians to help prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the military

The Independent UK

Even Fox News is grilling the White House about Pete Hegseth’s ‘chaotic, weakened’ Pentagon

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

The Independent UK

DHS Says It's Not To Be Legally Accountable For Court-Barred Deportations Because They Were Carried Out By DoD

Attorneys for DHS said the agency did not violate a federal judge's order that prevents people from being deported to third countries, and instead shifted the blame towards the Defense Department, claiming they were the ones carrying out the removals

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The Latest: FBI arrests a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration agents

The FBI has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, saying she “intentionally misdirected” federal immigration agents away from a man they were trying to take into custody at her courthouse

The Independent UK

Department of Homeland Security points to another agency when asked about court-barred deportations

Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security say the agency didn’t violate a judge’s order detailing when people may be deported to countries other than their own because it was the Defense Department — not DHS officials — doing the deporting

The Independent UK

Can Pete Hegseth keep his job? Insider reveals Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ amid backstabbing and leaks

The Pentagon faces a ‘full-blown meltdown’ after staff purges and sensitive leaks. Can the secretary survive under Trump?

The Independent UK

Pentagon official at the center of Jackie Robinson scandal suddenly resigns

John Ullyot attracted unwanted attention by declaring that ‘DEI is dead’ last month amid uproar over removal of baseball legend’s tribute page from Department of Defense website

The Independent UK

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Top Pentagon Officials Placed On Leave Amid Leak Investigation

The investigation reportedly involves several serious leaks, including military operational plans for the Panama Canal, the deployment of a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Red Sea, a controversial visit by Elon Musk to the Pentagon, and the temporary halt of intelligence collection for Ukraine.

International Business Times

A look at the universities with federal funding targeted by the Trump administration

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts

The Independent UK

US Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say

A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, a move that could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants

The Independent UK

DOGE’s private contract crackdown has eliminated more than 120 Deloitte contracts—more twice the amount of any other consultancy

Deloitte is one of at least 10 consulting firms with slashed contracts, including Accenture, which has already warned of downstream revenue losses.

Fortune

Defense Department to offer new round of voluntary resignations, retirements. There are few details

The Defense Department is going to offer a new round of voluntary resignations and retirements to the civilian workforce, but details are slim

The Independent UK

Pentagon nepotism fears as Defense Secretary’s younger brother given key adviser role

Phil Hegseth's past experience includes founding his own podcast production company

The Independent UK

Oracle is reportedly among wave of tech giants hit by DOGE cuts, as defense secretary balks at ‘throwing more good taxpayer money after bad’

The Department of Defense announced $580 million in funding, grant, and contract cuts last week.

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The Independent UK

The Signal attack plan messages: What we do (and don't) know

The revelation that President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials posted the specifics of a military attack to a chat group that included a journalist hours before the attack took place has raised many questions

Fortune

Trump administration's use of disappearing Signal messages to discuss military strikes not allowed under record law, experts say

Senior officials in the Trump administration are under fire after inadvertently sharing secret war plans with a reporter via a Signal group chat.

Sports Illustrated

Stephen A. Smith Challenges President Trump to Come on Show and Defend Stance on DEI

Stephen A. Smith’s offer comes after an article highlighting Jackie Robinson’s military service was briefly taken down by the Department of Defense.

The Independent UK

Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry

The Pentagon has restored some webpages highlighting the wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans

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The Independent UK

Pentagon removes web pages about Holocaust remembrance, 9/11 to comply with Trump DEI order

Content takedowns come as administration has made combating antisemitism a major focus

Sports Illustrated

Department of Defense Restores Jackie Robinson Article After Anti-Diversity Wipe

The department sent ESPN two highly contradictory statements.

International Business Times

Pentagon To Cut Up To 60K Jobs As Defense Secretary Hegseth Assures Military Readiness Won't Be Affected

The Defense Department is using three main methods -- encouraging voluntary resignations, firing probationary workers, and leaving positions unfilled as employees naturally leave -- to reach the cuts.

The Independent UK

Pentagon aims to cut up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations

A senior defense official says that roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department

The Independent UK

Military slices out web pages about WWII Native American code talkers to comply with Trump order to eradicate DEI

Military has long credited Indigenous code units for serving key roles in WWI and WWII

The Independent UK

Pete Hegseth says the Defense Department doesn’t ‘do’ climate change despite being one of the largest polluters

The U.S. military has been identified as the single-largest consumer of energy in the U.S. and the world’s single-largest institutional consumer of petroleum

Salon

Paranoid Hegseth bans the Enola Gay

Trump’s defense secretary ends a 1965 policy barring racial segregation from contract facilities

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