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The part­ner­ship comes as the rela­ti­onship bet­ween Trump and Musk con­ti­nues to dete­rio­ra­te.

Inves­ti­ga­tors are asking about Defen­se Secre­ta­ry Pete Hegseth’s lawy­er and a top aide as they look into the Signal app con­tro­ver­sy.

The administration’s first mili­ta­ry assis­tance to Ukrai­ne would come after a con­tro­ver­si­al halt in wea­pons to Kyiv.

The plea deals would have eli­mi­na­ted death sen­ten­ces for three alle­ged 9/11 plot­ters.

The mee­ting bet­ween Rus­sia and the U.S.’s chief diplo­mats comes on the heels of a pho­ne call bet­ween Trump and Putin.

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.

The los­ses could end­an­ger the administration’s plans for landing astro­nauts on the moon and Mars.

Even for an admi­nis­tra­ti­on with a knack for moving fast and brea­king things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pen­ta­gon have cau­sed frus­tra­ti­on and fric­tion.

High-level mee­tings bet­ween U.S. and Ukrai­ni­an offi­ci­als this week could unf­url some of the wea­pons ship­ments pau­sed by the U.S.

The decis­i­on left offi­ci­als on both sides of the Atlan­tic scrambling to find out how long the pau­se might last.

With no new mili­ta­ry aid coming from Trump, Kyiv wants per­mis­si­on to buy U.S. wea­pons via Euro­pe.

Trump pled­ged to explo­re mis­sile defen­ses for Ukrai­ne. Law­ma­kers say the aid pau­se under­cuts him.

The decis­i­on was dri­ven by the Pentagon’s poli­cy chief, Elbridge Col­by, and was made after a review of Pen­ta­gon muni­ti­ons stock­pi­les.

Sens. Eliza­beth War­ren and Rick Scott say the for­mer Defen­se secre­ta­ry is vio­la­ting the public trust by going into the influence busi­ness.

House lea­der­ship is framing the suc­cess of U.S. strikes on Iran as hin­ging on more than just dama­ge assess­ments.

Seve­ral of Trump’s top mili­ta­ry and intel­li­gence offi­ci­als briefed Sena­tors on the latest dama­ge assess­ment to Iran’s nuclear faci­li­ties.

The Trump admi­nis­tra­ti­on has las­hed out against an ear­ly intel­li­gence assess­ment that repor­ted­ly con­cluded com­pon­ents of Iran’s nuclear pro­gram remain int­act.

CIA Direc­tor John Rat­clif­fe and Direc­tor of Natio­nal Intel­li­gence Tul­si Gab­bard joi­n­ed the cho­rus of admi­nis­tra­ti­on offi­ci­als bat­ting away an ear­ly intel assess­ment that U.S. strikes had limi­t­ed impact.

Trump’s remarks could ease ten­si­ons bet­ween the two count­ries.

Defen­se Secre­ta­ry Pete Hegs­eth did not spe­ci­fy how the admi­nis­tra­ti­on would avo­id get­ting drawn into a deeper escala­ti­on with Tehr­an.

A POLITICO ana­ly­sis reve­als tel­ling gaps bet­ween the big spen­ders near Eas­tern Euro­pe and tho­se fur­ther from Rus­sia, who are still cree­ping toward a deca­de-old tar­get.

The Pen­ta­gon has had a months­long rota­ti­on of the pla­nes to a base in the Indi­an Oce­an.

Israe­lis see value in wea­k­e­ning Iran as Trump seeks nego­tia­ti­ons.

The admi­nis­tra­ti­on has deman­ded that allies com­mit to spen­ding at least 5 per­cent of GDP on defen­se.

The U.S. had been hol­ding off on orga­ni­zing any flights out of Isra­el for Ame­ri­can citi­zens as Isra­el and Iran trade blows.

U.S. Cen­tral Com­mand chief Gen. Erik Kur­il­la is over­ru­ling other top Pen­ta­gon offi­ci­als.

The Pen­ta­gon is rou­ting ano­ther air­craft car­ri­er to the regi­on and sen­ding addi­tio­nal air­craft to Euro­pe as the con­flict bet­ween Isra­el and Iran escala­tes.

The move comes as Isra­el braces for a reta­li­a­to­ry attack from Iran.

The Defen­se secre­ta­ry said he’d com­ply with a Supre­me Court order blo­cking Trump’s dome­stic deploy­ment, but did not com­mit to the other courts.

The three-nati­on part­ner­ship aims to pro­tect against Chi­na in the Paci­fic.