Hegseth walks tightrope on China, urging Asian allies to share burden against threats

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s wife told a campaign aide during a vetting exercise last summer that she had previously found “sexually explicit texts with several women” on his phone. Amy Gertner told the campaign’s then-political director Genevieve McDonald about her husband’s extramarital relationships “to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s […]

War Secretary Pete Hegseth softened his rhetoric on China without mentioning Taiwan during his speech at a security summit in Singapore. The Cabinet official’s remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue came over two weeks after he joined President Donald Trump on an official state visit to Beijing. On Saturday, Hegseth exhibited a softer stance on China […]

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said he’s pledging to end animal abuse as mayor with the creation of a Los Angeles Police Department task force called “PAWS.” “There’s a reason ‘Dog’ is just ‘God’, backwards; they share an unconditional love for mankind. Both Nithya and Karen Bass ignore these poor animals being killed on […]

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on Saturday that it had prevented another vessel from docking at an Iranian port amid a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.  The U.S. military “disabled” a ship flying under a Gambian flag on Friday after the vessel did not heed numerous warnings, according to a statement shared...