U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference in Panama City, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) “Ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” President Trump quipped this Easter Monday, defending his embattled Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. But behind the bravado and bunny suits on the White House lawn, top officials are…
Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon on April 15, 2025, following his suspension amid an ongoing probe into multiple unauthorised disclosures of sensitive information. The removal, part of a broader crackdown inside the Department of Defense, signals a deepening crisis for the Trump administration’s…
US defense secretary Pete Hegseth pledged on Tuesday that the United States would work with Panama to reduce China’s influence over the Panama Canal. His remarks came during a rare visit to the country as he stood at a US-funded pier in Panama City. “Together, we will take back the Panama Canal from China’s influence,”…
US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, defence secretary Pete Hegseth and national security advisor Mike Waltz The personal information, like mobile numbers, email addresses, and certain passwords of senior US President Donald Trump‘s security advisers, is accessible on the internet, according to a Wednesday report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. After the Signal…
Walked into his girlfriend’s building… Late Friday, a senior Houthi military official believed to be the group’s top missile commander was killed in a US airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen. The strike, confirmed by multiple US officials in internal communications, came after the individual was positively identified entering a residential building reportedly linked to his girlfriend….
Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen A. Smith. Image via: Adam Gray / AFP – Getty Images file | Stacy Revere/Getty Images ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith publicly challenged former President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to a debate over the Department of Defense’s (DoD) controversial removal of Jackie Robinson’s military history from…
Donald Trump is back in the White(Fight) House, and so is his most reliable economic weapon: tariffs, particularly focused on China. The latest round, a 20% levy on Chinese imports, has sent Beijing scrambling for a response.Driving the newsDonald Trump has reignited the US-China trade war with a fresh round of tariffs, raising duties on…
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said that the United States is “prepared” to go to war with China, following warnings from Beijing over rising trade tensions.Hegseth’s response came amidst an X post from China’s US Embassy, which said, “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s summit with President Donald Trump next week, India and the US on Thursday agreed to chart out an “ambitious” defence cooperation agenda, which includes stepped-up operational, intelligence, logistics and defence-industrial collaboration.This was discussed in a telephonic conversation between defence minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Pete Hegseth,…
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Defense secretary, gives a thumbs-up at the completion of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) In an interview with Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show in December, Pete Hegseth—an Army veteran and…
