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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon has shut down Microsoft’s decade-old “digital escort” program, first implemented under a Democrat administration, which allowed Chinese engineers supervised by U.S. contractors to work on sensitive defense cloud systems. He said the Defense Department has launched audits and investigations to assess the program’s impact on national security.

A report in the New York Times states that President Donald Trump secretly signed an order authorizing the use of military force against “certain Latin American drug cartels.” These cartels were previously designated by President Trump and the U.S. Department of

President Trump paved the way for military action with his designation of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The designation led to the authorization of surveillance flights by the CIA over Mexico and the deployment of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers off the Mexican coast.

Microsoft claims it is changing practices to ensure that engineers based in China no longer provide support to U.S. defense clients using the company’s Azure cloud services. The Company was previously called out for using engineers based in the hostile communist nation to support Pentagon and other critical defense systems.

The delivery of F-35 fighter jets from the United States to Turkey will remain on “hold” by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID), despite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent claim that he made progress on getting the planes in a meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit last month.

Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it had awarded contracts to several artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as Elon Musk’s xAI, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has been meeting its military recruiting goals months ahead of schedule after barely scraping by and sometimes falling short under the Biden administration, prompting Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell to attribute the recent success to the “leadership” displayed by President Donald Trump and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth.

The Department of Defense (DOD) is reviewing and reinstating servicemembers who were “wrongfully” kicked out of the military for refusing to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell exclusively told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, June 18.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, June 12.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, June 11.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, June 10.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned at a national security conference in Singapore on Saturday that China remains an active strategic threat and urged allies to spend more on their own defense.

The Department of Defense is slashing more waste, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an update on Wednesday.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on Friday that found North Korea has produced enough fissile material — i.e. atomic bomb fuel — to build up to 90 nuclear warheads, a dramatic increase from the 20 to 60 warheads it was believed capable of building last year.

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.

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.