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Georgia Prosecutor Steps In to Oversee Trump Election Case

Par :Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim
The official, Pete Skandalakis, had been tasked by law with finding a new prosecutor for the election interference case after Fani T. Willis was removed from it.

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Donald J. Trump, who was out of office at the time, after being booked at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta in August 2023.
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U.S. Officials Raise Concerns About Saudi Arabia’s Bid for F-35 Jets

Par :Edward Wong and Eric Schmitt
A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump administration sells jets to the kingdom.

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An F-35 fighter jet during a demonstration off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month.
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U.S. Officials Raise Concerns About Saudi Arabia’s Bid for F-35 Jets

Par :Edward Wong and Eric Schmitt
A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump administration sells jets to the kingdom.

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An F-35 fighter jet during a demonstration off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month.
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Xi’s Military Purges Show Unease About China’s Nuclear Forces

Par :David Pierson
The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways.

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President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, observing a demonstration of naval sea power this month. Mr. Trump has stood by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he has fired more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women.
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Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela

Par :Eric Schmitt
The carrier’s arrival bolsters the extensive deployment of American forces in the region. Britain has ceased sharing some intelligence with the United States because of concerns over boat strikes.

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The Trump administration cut short the deployment to the Mediterranean of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, to rush it to the Caribbean.
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U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

Par :Eric Schmitt
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

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The Gerald R. Ford, the United States’ largest and newest aircraft carrier, anchored in the Bay of Palma in Spain last month. It is set to arrive in the Caribbean as soon as this week.
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Hegseth Vows to Shake Up the Way the Pentagon Does Business

Par :Greg Jaffe
In a speech outlining his overhaul plans, the defense secretary called on American weapons makers to surge “at the speed of ingenuity.”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech on Friday dived deep into the arcane details of the military’s system for procuring weapons.
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Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation

Par :Greg Jaffe · Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper
The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.

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Democrats Raise Concerns After Trump Officials Give Boat Strikes Briefing

Par :Megan Mineiro · Robert Jimison and Julian E. Barnes
The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump’s expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.

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A top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee lamented that lawmakers were not given a “strike-by-strike” breakdown.
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Latest U.S. Strike on Suspected Drug Boat Kills 2 in Pacific, Hegseth Says

Par :Carol Rosenberg
It was the 16th announced attack in two months and raised the death toll to at least 67 people in both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in September. On Tuesday, he announced another American military strike on a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Hegseth Vows Stronger Ties With a Vietnam Skeptical of U.S. Commitment

Par :Damien Cave and Tung Ngo
After months of uncertainty over U.S. aid, the defense secretary pledged that Washington would keep funding programs that help address the wounds of the Vietnam War.

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The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Sunday presenting Vietnam’s defense minister, Phan Van Giang, with a knife, belt and leather box taken by U.S. soldiers from a bunker outside Da Nang, Vietnam, during the war there, in 1968.
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Latest U.S. Military Boat Strike in Caribbean Sea Kills 3, Pete Hegseth Says

Par :Carol Rosenberg
The strike, carried out on Saturday, was the 15th announced by the administration in its campaign against vessels it claims are smuggling drugs.

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Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, said the vessel “was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling,” but did not provide evidence to support the claim.
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Trump Officials Move Into Military Residences in D.C. Area

Par :John Ismay and Hamed Aleaziz
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved into a home at Fort McNair traditionally reserved for the Army’s vice chief of staff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others also now live in military housing.

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According to a Defense Department official, Mr. Hegseth is paying $4,655.70 per month to live at Ft. McNair this year.
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U.S. Military Kills Four More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

Par :Helene Cooper and Robert Jimison
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the latest strike took place on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific. It came two days after the deadliest set of strikes in the weekslong campaign in Latin America.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a cabinet meeting with President Trump this month.
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U.S. Military Kills Four More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

Par :Helene Cooper and Robert Jimison
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the latest strike took place on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific. It came two days after the deadliest set of strikes in the weekslong campaign in Latin America.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a cabinet meeting with President Trump this month.
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U.S. Says It Will Cut Troops in Eastern Europe

Par :Lynsey Chutel
About 700 troops are expected to be withdrawn as Trump administration officials shift resources to the Indo-Pacific region.

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U.S. troops participating in a training exercise in Frecatei, Romania, in June.
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U.S. Military Kills 14 More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

Par :Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the three strikes hit four boats in international waters and that there had been one survivor.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivering remarks during an event at the Pentagon last month. Mr. Hegseth said that the latest strikes — three of them — took place in international waters and that there had been one survivor.
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U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Latin America as Drug Operation Expands

Par :Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt
The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shown on Monday, announced on Friday that six people were killed by the U.S. military in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
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