Blunders on Ukraine and Venezuela point to dysfunction caused by Trump’s hollowing out of the NSC.

Former Vice President Mike Pence defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid criticism of his management style and decision to pause military aid to Ukraine without President Trump’s ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday, just days after President ...

The North Carolina senator, who recently said he did not plan to run for re-election, said the defense secretary’s decisions have been amateurish and show he is unfit to lead a large organization.

US allies in Europe are worried that American support for Ukraine is fickle, and that the Trump administration will cut its troop posture on the continent.

Senator Thom Tillis seemingly implied to CNN's Jake Tapper that he would not vote to confirm Pete Hegseth if a vote were to ...

Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / ) Pete Hegseth, the defense ...

The instability Hegseth is accused of bringing to the Pentagon is also said to be a factor in his failure to inform the White ...

Our soldiers responded without hesitation, killing several enemy fighters and capturing a Taliban machine gunner. At that ...

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A tougher judgment may be that the US Navy needs to keep its Virginia-class attack submarines, and we lose the opportunity to ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief talks about what he learned from “Signalgate”—and what ...