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  • Vicious interpersonal conflicts among Hegseth staff cloud leak investigation

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

    Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s orbit has become consumed by a contentious leak investigation that those inside the Pentagon believe is behind the firing of three senior aides last week, according to five people involved in the situation.

    The secretary’s office has been marked for weeks by ugly internal politics between chief of staff Joe Kasper, who left the department on Thursday, and the three ousted aides, including senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief Darin Selnick and chief to the deputy defense secretary Colin Carroll.

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  • US army suspends commander after Trump and Hegseth portraits flipped to face wall

    Col Sheyla Baez Ramirez, Wisconsin training base’s first female commander, was suspended after the discovery

    The army has suspended a Wisconsin training base’s first female commander after discovering portraits of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth had been flipped around to face a wall.

    The army has posted an undated statement on Fort McCoy’s website saying Col Sheyla Baez Ramirez has been suspended as the base’s garrison commander. The statement said the suspension isn’t related to any misconduct, but provided no other details, saying the matter was under review.

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  • Two US marines investigated over alleged rape at military base in Okinawa

    Allegations come days after Japanese authorities increased efforts to deter crimes by US servicemen on island

    Two US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa are being investigated for alleged rape, days after local authorities stepped up efforts to deter sexual and other crimes by US service personnel.

    A marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman in a bathroom at a US military base last month, while a second man, also a marine in his 20s, allegedly raped a woman at a base in January, according to media reports.

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  • Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat – report

    US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times

    Before the US launched military strikes on Yemen in March, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he created himself, which included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

    The Guardian has independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.

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  • Students at Pentagon schools sue Hegseth over book bans on race and gender

    Lawsuit argues that culling library books prevents children from learning about health, hygiene, biology and abuse

    Twelve students studying in Pentagon schools in the US and around the world are suing the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, over the book bans he has instigated to remove titles on race and gender from their libraries.

    A lawsuit lodged on the students’ behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday argues that their first amendment rights are being irreparably harmed. The complaint says that the censorship has been applied system-wide across Pentagon schools, and was endangering children by preventing them from learning critical information about health, hygiene, biology and abuse.

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  • Hegseth adviser placed on leave amid investigation into Pentagon leaks

    Dan Caldwell reportedly removed from building over ‘unauthorized disclosure’ amid scandal over recent leaks

    One of US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was reportedly put on leave and removed from the Pentagon on Tuesday following a Department of Defense investigation into leaks.

    Caldwell was escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified during the investigation and subsequently placed on administrative leave for “an unauthorized disclosure”, a source told Reuters.

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  • Head of US military base in Greenland fired after JD Vance visit

    Col Susannah Meyers removed amid reports she distanced base from Vance’s criticism of Denmark’s oversight of territory

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    The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired for criticising Washington’s agenda for the Arctic island after JD Vance visited two weeks ago.

    Col Susannah Meyers, who had served as commander of the Pituffik space base since July, was removed amid reports she had distanced herself and the base from the US vice-president’s criticism of Denmark and its oversight of the territory.

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  • ‘Streamline’ or ‘lifeline’? Wyoming veterans divided over Trump’s VA cuts

    In the lower 48 state with the highest share of veterans, some denounce and others praise Doge-led mass layoffs

    Birgitt Paul has worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs (VA) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for over a decade – five years on the floor, five and a half coordinating at-home care for veterans in the region.

    Like many people working at the agency, she has her gripes with the system – it could be more efficient, more streamlined, easier to navigate for the veterans in need of its care, and better for the 400,000 employees that keep its wheels spinning.

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  • Democrats decry reported dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh

    Lawmakers say dismissing head of US Cyber Command puts country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’

    Top congressional Democrats are protesting against the reported firing of Gen Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe”.

    Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, have been dismissed from their roles, the Washington Post reported late on Thursday, with CNN reporting likewise, both outlets citing multiple unnamed officials and other senior sources close to the matter who had requested anonymity. The ousting had not been officially confirmed by the government or the individuals by Friday afternoon, but outrage from critics was fulsome.

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  • Trans soldiers served their country. Now the US is rolling back their healthcare

    About 134,000 trans veterans live in the US, with many now blocked from life-saving gender-affirming care

    When Savannah Blake joined the air force at 22 years old, she was looking for stable employment and a way out of poverty. For the last few years of her service, she worked as a cyberdefense operator in the intelligence squadron. But the work, which involved overseeing computers operating drone surveillance, eventually took a toll on her mental health.

    “If I had to watch any more of this, I was going to not be alive anymore,” Blake said, who says she experienced suicidal ideations. “I just felt like the bad guy. I felt evil.”

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