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Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan delivered a sobering statistic on Wednesday at a think-tank in Washington: Last year, China put 34 rockets into orbit — more than double the 17 that the U.S. put into orbit the same year.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said Monday he has already received “tens of thousands” of documents in response to the committee’s request to more than 80 Trump family members and associates, as part of Democrats’ sweeping probe of President Trump.

Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) dodged giving an answer when asked whether he thought President Trump should be “impeached or beaten in 2020.”

Devin Nunes filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a handful of users that seeks $600 million in damages.

Donald Trump Jr. came out in defense of Chelsea Clinton on Saturday morning for speaking out against Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) antisemitic remarks.

The nation’s top military officer slammed Google for working with China, which he said benefitted its military, during a hearing Thursday.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Thursday after he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee he is not worried by a progressive watchdog group’s request that the Pentagon inspector general investigate whether he has acted unethically to help his former employer Boeing during his time at the Defense Department.

The Pentagon is moving forward on its new transgender policy, after a court lifted an injunction on the policy last week.

A bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers want Iran to fulfill its promise to assist in finding Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran 12 years ago.

Troops will see a pay raise of 3.1 percent in January under President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request.

Young Americans are more likely to embrace socialism than past generations, a poll published by Axios on Monday said.

The Pentagon Inspector General is investigating allegations that a two-star Army general is retaliating against active-duty Green Beret instructors under his command who have voiced concerns over his lowering of standards for Green Beret candidates, three sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.

Mueller’s report has not yet been released, and perhaps not even finalized, but it is already on sale at least two major online retailers.

Deutch in an emotional speech on the House floor on Thursday slammed his fellow Democrats for tolerating antisemitism.

Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has hired a campaign consultant who also works for the wife of the head of a Russia propaganda outlet.

Rose, a U.S. Army veteran, said he disagreed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was a mistake. 

Doug Schoen, who was an adviser to former President Bill Clinton, warned House Democrats against reinforcing a “witch hunt” narrative.

Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff is under scrutiny for funneling more than a $1 million in campaign donations to corporations he owned.

Trump has long accused Democrats of engaging in a witch hunt against him, but after their massive document demand, GOPs say he is right. 

Axelrod criticized House Democrats on Monday for their blanket demand for documents, warning it could play into the characterization of a witch hunt.

Three House Democrat chairmen are reportedly demanding that President Trump hand over all of his records and interviews related to his communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz questioned Sunday why an Atlantic reporter has not yet retracted a tweet about him despite it being debunked by a Politico reporter and an on-record statement by the Florida Governor.

China’s growing power throughout the world presents an existential threat to Americans’ future that they are not prepared for, experts warned.

Only 37 percent of people surveyed found former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s testimony in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform this week to be credible, according to a poll published Friday.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Democrats chose to have a hearing with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on Thursday in secret so that they could run out and talk to media about it afterwards.

The search is underway for President Trump’s next pick for United States ambassador to the United Nations, and experts say that a top priority for him or her should be to reduce waste of U.S. taxpayer funds at the UN.

President Trump will leave a “small peacekeeping group” of 200 troops in Syria, after the April 30 deadline to withdraw all forces, according to a report.

Belgian Defense Minister Didier Reynders on Thursday denied a Washington Post report that U.S. allies have “rejected” a “Trump administration request” for them to leave troops in Syria as America withdraws its forces.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) an “ally” after the senator told Breitbart News and the Washington Post that Shanahan was now an “adversary.”

There was much anticipation over the expected rivalry between the United States and China at a global security conference in Munich over the weekend, given a sense among global elites that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and China is growing in stature.

Shanahan had a rocky meeting with U.S. senators at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that could jeopardize his chance to become permanent defense secretary.

Lara Logan is trending on Twitter in the United States, after she gave an interview calling the news media biased, recommending Breitbart.

Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday he does not oppose Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan becoming the next defense secretary. 

Lindsey Graham told Breitbart News that he is proposing a plan to keep a “small percentage” of U.S. troops in Syria, after ISIS’s caliphate is destroyed. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) congratulated President Trump for destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s caliphate, at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. 

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rejected allegations made by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to CBS.