U.S. federal prosecutors successfully convicted 60 illegal aliens in Texas after they pleaded guilty to the newly applied charges. The convictions and sentences were handed down after a setback in the effort to prosecute illegal aliens for trespassing into a newly created National Defense Area in New Mexico earlier this month.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announce a new U.S. missile defense system on Tuesday, May 20.
U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory Wormuth of Las Cruces dismissed misdemeanor trespassing charges against nearly 100 illegal aliens arrested for crossing into a newly designated National Defense Area in New Mexico. On Wednesday, the federal judge ruled in favor of the illegal aliens, citing probable cause issues as the reason for the dismissals.
The Pentagon is taking upwards of 1,000 military personnel who openly self-identify as transgender out of immediate service. The separation began Thursday at the same time those who have yet to step forward as transgender have been granted 30 days to depart of their own volition.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to mandate a review of all the religious exemption requests received from military servicemembers who did not want to be forced to receive the coronavirus vaccination and “authorize corrective action” for those whose careers suffered for not getting the jab, Breitbart News has learned.
Illegal border crossers in New Mexico are now facing criminal charges under a section of U.S. law that protects military installations from unauthorized entry. On Thursday, New United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico Ryan Ellison announced the filing of 82 new Title 50 charges for unauthorized entry into the newly designated National Defense Area along New Mexico’s southern border. The announcement followed a high-level visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed the strong recruiting numbers the military has seen and the steps the administration has taken to end woke culture in the military during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should “resign for for his own safety’s sake.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, April 23.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed Thursday on CNN’s “The Source” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the wrong person for his position.
Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) blasted Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), his former colleague on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), after Bacon played up recent establishment media attacks on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied a story from NPR on Monday that alleged the White House is looking to replace Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The Department of Defense recently published new guidance on reinstating unvaccinated service members who left the military because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Does this policy simply seek to re-recruit some individuals, or truly make things right?
One of the top advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Dan Caldwell, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after he was reportedly identified as a leaker in an investigation.
On April 10, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Having brushed aside questions about the minor SNAFU known as “Signalgate,” Caine now has the task of helping President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth make the American military great again.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday fired the commander of a Space Force base in Greenland hours after a report that she had sent an email to the entire base criticizing Vice President JD Vance after his visit there last month.
Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, was confirmed by a 54-45 Senate vote on Tuesday, without the help of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Terry Adirim, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official and former senior defense official who played a pivotal and potentially illegal role in the Biden Administration’s military vaccine mandate, was recently fired from the agency, a source has exclusively revealed to Breitbart News.
Visibility was as low and neither ship involved had a dedicated lookout at the time of the smash, accident investigators say.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it a habit to do physical training — or “PT” in military speak — early in the morning with troops he visits on overseas trips — winning him respect from troops, according to one retired Green Beret.
On Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said he released the Signal chat among senior national security officials to show that the Trump administration does not take national security seriously.
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign over the Signal chat among senior national security officials.
The Department of Defense over the weekend announced an investigation into leaks of sensitive and classified information following a series of unauthorized disclosures to several legacy news media outlets.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) canceled 105 more contracts, with a ceiling value of $935 million, it announced this week.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on Friday morning blasted a New York Times report as “fake” after the newspaper claimed that Elon Musk was being briefed later that day at the Pentagon on “potential war with China.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday with the stroke of a pen cut more than $580 million in wasteful contracts and grants funded with U.S. taxpayer money.
A radical Biden-appointed judge is citing the Broadway musical Hamilton in her legal opinion ordering the Trump administration to reinstate transgender soldiers in the U.S. military.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Monday said the Department of Defense has an obligation to hold military leadership accountable for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal under the Biden administration that saw the death of 13 U.S. service members and dozens more wounded.
The Pentagon is deploying a U.S. Navy destroyer to the Gulf of America as part of its mission to secure the southern border, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said Monday.
The Military Health System (MHS) is the cornerstone of our military’s medical readiness, ensuring that our service members and their families receive the highest standard of care.
Russian captain of a ship that rammed into a U.S. govt-contracted jet fuel tanker off England has been arrested on a Manslaughter charge.
Foul play “not been ruled out” by White House after jet fuel-carrying tanker ship indirectly contracted to D.O.D. burns off east coast of UK.
“Tooth and tail.” That’s the phrase new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth uses to describe how money is spent (and wasted) by the Pentagon. It captures the difference between spending money to support warfighters and spending it on the mushrooming support operations that are supposed to keep the troops ready.
President Donald Trump touted getting wokeness out of the United States military, as well as record recruitment numbers during his speech to a joint session of Congress.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced Monday evening that the DOGE team at the department has identified about $80 million in spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion that will likely be cut.
Defense reporters invited by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell for an off-the-record meet-and-greet on Thursday broke ground rules and selectively leaked snippets from the meeting to columnist Oliver Darcy, who published their accounts the next day in his newsletter.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of an active-duty Stryker Brigade Combat Team and an aviation battalion to reinforce security at the United States southern border, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced over the weekend.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video statement released Sunday, directed Department of Defense civilian employees to respond to an email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to list five accomplishments from the prior week.
Under orders from the Trump administration, the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops and armored Stryker vehicles to the U.S. border with Mexico. The orders expand current operations and to “seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” officials said.
A group of five partisan former defense secretaries — including one who signed the discredited letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation — are calling on Congress to hold hearings on President Donald Trump’s firing of top generals.
