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New York Times Sues Pentagon for a Second Time

By: Erik Wemple —
The Times is challenging a new requirement that reporters covering the military complex have an official escort, part of a broader legal challenge to the Pentagon’s press restrictions.

The lawsuit is the second one from The New York Times over the Defense Department’s restrictions on the press.

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Pentagon Can Temporarily Require Escorts for Journalists

By: Erik Wemple —
An appeals panel ruled that the Defense Department can require escorts for reporters in the building while it fights an earlier decision that overturned many of the department’s press rules.

An aerial view of the Pentagon, the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense.

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Trump Is Racing to Redefine ‘America First’ in a Time of War

By: Anton Troianovski —
Washington has been debating the thrust of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy for more than a decade, with the only consensus being that “America First” means whatever the president says it does.

President Trump holding a “Make America Great Again” hat on his way to his golf club in Miami last year.

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Burned Before, Democrats Abruptly Revive the Idea of Impeaching Trump

By: Annie Karni —
Democrats in Congress have assiduously avoided talk of a third impeachment of President Trump, concerned that it would distract from their midterm campaign message. That tide seems to have turned.

President Trump returning to the White House last month.

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Wild Ultimatums and ‘Bombing Our Little Hearts Out’: A Portrait of Trump at War

By: Erica L. Green —
President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.

The president’s allies have always said that his unpredictability is his superpower, and that it keeps his enemies guessing.

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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

By: Sheera Frenkel， Cade Metz and Julian E. Barnes —
The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.

In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth published a memo calling on A.I. to be widely integrated across the military and for A.I. companies to offer their technology without restrictions.

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Ronny Chieng Remarks on Trump ‘DoorDash-ing’ Maduro to Brooklyn

By: Trish Bendix —
“The Daily Show” host quipped that after a surprise capture, Nicolás Maduro “will face justice in the best legal system in the world that we illegally kidnapped him to.”
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The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic

By: Michelle Cottle —
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.

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U.S. Kills 2 in Strike in Pacific, as Trump Pressures Venezuela

By: Eric Schmitt —
The attack was the 30th announced by the U.S. military since early September. It came days after President Trump said the U.S. had struck a coastal site related to drugs and Venezuela.

The strike, conducted at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, had targeted a boat sailing along a “known narco-trafficking route” in the eastern Pacific.

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For Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn’t Want the Public to See

By: David E. Sanger —
The Pentagon has released plenty of video clips that show American missiles blowing boats suspected of carrying drugs out of the water. But the “double tap” strike on Sept. 2 is being kept under wraps.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth briefed senators on Tuesday.

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Pentagon Relaxes Press Access Rules

By: Erik Wemple —
Under new guidelines, journalists will not need approval from the Defense Department before publishing articles containing information not officially released.

Pentagon reporters have had access to the building’s corridors for decades.

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Trump Gave Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, as He Deployed Troops to U.S. Cities

By: Shawn McCreesh —
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.

President Trump visiting sailors aboard the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of Norfolk, Va., on Sunday.

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Late Night Sums Up Day 2 of the Shutdown

By: Trish Bendix —
“No one has any idea how long it will last,” Jimmy Fallon said. “People are calling it the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ of government shutdowns.”
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What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards

By: John Ismay —
The defense secretary raised the issue suggesting women were getting into combat not because they met high standards, but because they were given a pass.

A training event known as “the gauntlet” at the Citadel, the South Carolina military academy, in 2019.

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Veterans See Costs and Risks in Hegseth’s Military Rewind to 1990

By: Dave Philipps —
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has identified real problems, veteran officers say, but by looking back 35 years for policy cues, he risks hurting, not helping, military readiness.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered nearly all of the nation’s generals and admirals at Quantico, Va., on Tuesday to hear his vision for the military.

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Pete Hegseth, Trump and an Era of Military Impunity

By: Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue —
Pete Hegseth’s advocacy for service members accused of war crimes, and Trump’s pardons of them, have helped usher in an era of military aggression and disregard for the rule of law.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Fort Bragg in May.

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Inside the U.S. Special Forces: 5 Takeaways on a Culture of Lawlessness in Afghanistan

By: Matthieu Aikins —
Until now, many of the troubling events that took place during the war in Afghanistan have been shrouded in secrecy.

Green Berets training support staff at Camp Mackall in North Carolina in May.

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The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out.

By: Greg Jaffe —
Maj. Erica Vandal’s superiors called her “a superb officer.” The president said transgender soldiers like her lack the “honesty,” “humility” and “integrity” to serve.

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The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point

By: Greg Jaffe and Karsten Moran for The New York Times —
A Jan. 29 order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led to canceled classes, book bans and an argument about American greatness.

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