The Trump administration could cut nearly 50 percent of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, according to an internal memo laying out a downsizing plan being given serious consideration by department leaders, said two U.S. officials. The plan was drawn up as the White House pressures agencies to make significant budget cuts. The memo, […]
File photo: US defense secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and Panama foreign minister Javier Martinez-Acha (Picture credit: AP, X/@javierachapma) Panama is seeking to preserve a “respectful, transparent and mutually beneficial” relationship with the United States, even as US President Donald Trump repeats threats to retake control of the Panama Canal, foreign minister Javier Martinez-Acha said on […]
Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer Hegseth reportedly attended two high-level military meetings. After the Wall Street Journal reported exclusively that defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who is already facing the heat for the alleged leak of the Yemen war plan, brought his wife to meetings with foreign military counterparts, the MAGA machinery pushed back and said former […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet (AP Image) US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over the recent Signal chat leak, had reportedly brought his wife, Jennifer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where “sensitive” information was discussed, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the report, Hegseth […]
Activists and advocacy groups have sharply criticized US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after recent social media photos revealed an Arabic tattoo reading “kafir,” meaning “infidel” or “non-believer,” calling it a provocative symbol associated with anti-Muslim sentiment.Photos posted by Hegseth on social media platform X earlier this week clearly show the controversial tattoo. “Kafir” is […]
The photo of Pete Hegseth’s new tattoo below the ‘Deus Vult’ one is going viral. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth, embroiled over the leak of US’ apparent war plan against the Houthis, has been snapped with reportedly a new tattoo on his right arm that says ‘Kafir’. Hegseth is not new to tattoos and neither to […]
US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth US President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected the allegations regarding the leaked Yemen war plans, terming it a “witch hunt” while supporting his defence secretary Pete Hegseth amidst Democratic demands for resignation.Trump responded after The Atlantic Magazine revealed transcripts of messages which was accidentally shared with […]
Some of US president Donald Trump’s top national security officials, blamed secretary of defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that included a journalist.During a senate intelligence committee hearing, CIA director John Ratcliffe and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard faced rigorous questioning from […]
Mike Waltz added the Atlantic journalist to the Signal group, while Pete Hegseth discussed war plans in the group. Democrats were up in arms against the Donald Trump administration, demanding an investigation into the leak of the government’s war plan on a Signal group, which had Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffret Goldberg. Goldberg reported his experience of […]
JD Vance and Pete Hegseth hate Europe, bash it as ‘pathetic’ and ‘free-loading’. The leak of the US’ detailed plan to strike Houthi targets in Yemen on an encrypted messaging app signal put the Donald Trump administration in a tough spot while defense secretary Pete Hegseth brushed aside the allegations and said no war plan […]
