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FILE – Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Army pausing helicopter flights near Washington airport after close calls

May 5, 2025 at 3:35 p.m.

The Army is pausing helicopter flights near a Washington airport after two commercial planes had to abort landings last week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying...

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Washington (Pool via AP)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasts about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security. Trump signed it into law

April 29, 2025 at 3:42 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams, an initiative that he called “woke” but actually was signed...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks on the South Lawn of the White House before President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll Monday, April 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled airstrike info from secure military channel for Signal posts: report

April 22, 2025 at 1:48 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth departs the Commander-in-Chief trophy presentation to the Navy Midshipman football team in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had another Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports

April 20, 2025 at 6:40 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared the same details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with El Salvador’s Minister of National Defense Rene Merino Monroy at the Pentagon, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry ‘baseless attacks’

April 19, 2025 at 7:28 p.m.

Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information...

A member of the U.S. Army 212 Infantry 2nd Brigade stands next to the US-Mexico border as part of Joint Task Force Southern Border Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

US Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say

April 14, 2025 at 5:07 p.m.

A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a joint news conference with Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

Pentagon’s watchdog to review Hegseth’s use of Signal app to convey plans for Houthi strike

April 3, 2025 at 1:56 p.m.

The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday that he would review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, second from right, walks outside the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against Houthis

March 26, 2025 at 9:58 a.m.

The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials Wednesday, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timing of warplane launches and when bombs...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth does a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist

March 25, 2025 at 11:16 a.m.

Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that...

Eyeing China threat, President Donald Trump announces Boeing wins contract for secretive future fighter jet

March 21, 2025 at 11:18 a.m.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future fighter jet, which the Pentagon says will have stealth and penetration capabilities that far exceed those of...

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