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Pentagon Official Approves Guantánamo Trial of 3 Men for Indonesia Bombings
WASHINGTON — After years of delay, the U.S. official overseeing military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday approved the…
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Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is intensifying efforts to identify and combat white supremacy and other far-right extremism in its ranks…
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Pelosi increases pressure on Pentagon saying Trump loyalist isn’t qualified to be the N.S.A.’s top lawyer.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to the acting secretary of defense demanding that he not install a Trump loyalist…
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The Pentagon warns adversaries that domestic terrorist threats won’t distract it from foreign ones.
As thousands of National Guard troops continued to flow into Washington ahead of Inauguration Day, the Pentagon on Sunday sent…
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Pentagon Moves to Block Exam of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner
WASHINGTON — In his final days as Secretary of the Army, Ryan D. McCarthy has moved to thwart a federal…
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A Scoop About the Pentagon Papers, 50 Years Later
Janny Scott was researching the life of Neil Sheehan, the New York Times reporter who broke the news of the…
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Trump Appointee Will Temporarily Lead Pentagon Until Biden’s Pick Is Confirmed
WASHINGTON — A low-profile deputy defense secretary will be the lone Trump holdover running the Pentagon until President-elect Joseph R.…
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Pentagon Marching Where It Once Feared to Go: Armed Troops on the Streets
Foreign interference that may be masked as domestic unrest is another point of concern. If the protesters cannot get near…
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Members of a Senate panel express skepticism that Biden’s Pentagon pick should get a waiver for the job.
Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday expressed skepticism that Lloyd J. Austin III, a…
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Pentagon to Arm National Guard Troops Deploying to Capitol for Inauguration
WASHINGTON — National Guard troops who are flooding into Washington to secure the Capitol for Inauguration Day will be armed,…
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