Building lethality in the military may be the buzzword for the new Trump administration, but busywork and paperwork have become the reality at the Pentagon, as service members and civilian workers are ...

Neither had been as outspoken on diversity issues as Brown, but their firings suggest Trump is executing a broader ideological purge within the Pentagon. Hegseth has already requested nominations to ...

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Seventy years ago, at the height of the McCarthy era—when federal employees with left-wing views were routinely interrogated and fired for being suspected communists—a related purge of queer ...

The question that occurs after his Friday evening purge of Pentagon leaders is whether he wants personal loyalty or honest military counsel.

Liptak joined his network’s Sunday evening coverage with details about the purge after network anchor Jessica Dean broke the news. USAID employees received an email at 2:42 p.m. ET that read ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday defended the purge of top-level military officials amid blowback to the Friday night firings. The firing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. CQ Brown Jr ...

President Donald Trump’s Friday night purge of the Pentagon’s top officer and five other senior officials has thrust the institution into uncharted territory, with a retired general plucked ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied rumors that he drafted a list of senior military leaders he allegedly planned to purge after the rumor tore through the Pentagon last week and reportedly ...

In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the US Navy’s chief ...

"They want everyone in DOD beholden to the president," Reed told "This Week." Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that President Donald Trump's Friday ...

The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers at an Environmental Protection Agency office in Chicago included a half dozen attorneys who bring enforcement cases against polluters and ...