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Some tro­ops and Defen­se Depart­ment employees worry they will face poli­ti­cal­ly moti­va­ted punish­ments for social media posts that are seen as dis­loy­al to Pre­si­dent Donald Trump.

Quan­tum com­pu­ting exploits the phy­sics of sub­ato­mic par­tic­les to per­form spee­dier cal­cu­la­ti­ons than clas­si­cal com­pu­ters, with huge impli­ca­ti­ons for tech­no­lo­gi­cal inno­va­ti­on in defen­se and bey­ond.

Employees could find them­sel­ves chan­ging Defen­se Depart­ment seals on more than 700,000 faci­li­ties around the world.

This marks a major depar­tu­re from the first Trump admi­nis­tra­ti­on, which empha­si­zed deter­ring Bei­jing.

The name chan­ge would likely requi­re an act of Con­gress, alt­hough the White House is loo­king for ways to avo­id a vote.

The admi­nis­tra­ti­on has pro­vi­ded few details as to why it direc­ted the mili­ta­ry to strike a boat in the Carib­be­an suspec­ted of car­ry­ing drugs.

The move comes as the Trump admi­nis­tra­ti­on increa­ses the military’s pre­sence in the regi­on.

The pre­si­dent cri­ti­ci­zed Colorado’s laws on voting by mail and said they were a fac­tor in his decis­i­on.

The idea is one of seve­ral pro­po­sals Euro­pean offi­ci­als are con­side­ring as they scram­ble to estab­lish a peace deal bet­ween Kyiv and Moscow.

Com­mer­ce Secre­ta­ry Howard Lut­nick said Tues­day the pre­si­dent should con­sider sta­kes in com­pa­nies whe­re the U.S. adds “fun­da­men­tal value.”

Doug Beck has been a cri­ti­cal link bet­ween the Defen­se Depart­ment and Sili­con Val­ley.

“I don’t want to be defen­se only,” the pre­si­dent said. “We want offen­se too.”

Mee­tings bet­ween NATO and U.S. defen­se offi­ci­als left allies con­cer­ned that Pre­si­dent Donald Trump would lea­ve Euro­pe to ensu­re a las­ting peace in the war-scar­red coun­try.

Gen. David All­vin is the fourth top US mili­ta­ry offi­ci­al to lea­ve sin­ce Trump took office.

The con­ser­va­ti­ve acti­vist said Defen­se Secre­ta­ry Pete Hegs­eth has been recep­ti­ve to her con­cerns.

Still, any gua­ran­tee Trump backs is likely to fall short of what Euro­pe and Ukrai­ne have sought from Washing­ton.

Count­ries are ques­tio­ning their Ame­ri­can wea­pons purcha­ses, in some of their big­gest push­back yet to the administration’s tariffs.

About 800 tro­ops will assist local law enforce­ment amid the president’s pledge to crack down on crime in the nation’s capi­tal.

The depart­ment has ban­ned offi­ci­als from publicly dis­cus­sing Trump’s favo­ri­te wea­pons pro­ject at a major mis­sile defen­se con­fe­rence.

This is the first major agen­cy effort by the inte­rim NASA admi­nis­tra­tor, who is also the Trans­por­ta­ti­on secre­ta­ry and a for­mer Fox News host.

Dan Sul­li­van had plan­ned to hold Adm. Daryl Caudle’s nomi­na­ti­on until the Pen­ta­gon agreed to reopen a long-shut­te­red mili­ta­ry base.

Pro­mi­nent MAGA influen­cers have step­ped up their cri­ti­cism of Isra­el.

The department’s decis­i­on not to allow employees to par­ti­ci­pa­te in cer­tain events car­ri­es big­ger reper­cus­sions than missed atten­dance.

The White House con­ti­nues to sup­port the embatt­led Defen­se secre­ta­ry — but even some Hegs­eth allies pri­va­te­ly express con­cern that his mes­sy manage­ment style could beco­me his undo­ing.

John Phel­an and his chief of staff are taking con­trol of the duties that would have gone to the future Navy under­se­cre­ta­ry.

The move comes a week after the Defen­se Depart­ment pul­led out of the Aspen Secu­ri­ty Forum due to “the evil of glo­ba­lism.”