Navy Adm. Frank Bradley appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief bipartisan lawmakers in both chambers on the details of a September attack on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean. The meetings, held behind closed doors with the leaders of the Intelligence and Armed Services committees, shed new light on an episode that’s...

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Thursday a Department of Defense (DOD) watchdog report did not exonerate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from using an encrypted messaging app to share details about a pending strike on Houthis in Yemen. "No, that is total baloney," Bacon said during a CNN interview. "I have better words for it, but...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday that the Pentagon’s strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific could be a preview of an incursion into Venezuela. “I think the boat attacks are a prelude to an invasion of Venezuela,” the libertarian senator told host Stuart Varney on Fox Business’s “Varney & Co.”...

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) on Thursday announced that he will file articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is at the center of two scandals at the Defense Department. "This secretary has to go," Thanedar told Fox News host Josh Breslow. "He's incompetent. He's, you know, violated — he has committed war...

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Thursday that those on the committee are “very concerned” by the Pentagon’s double-tap strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. “Quite frankly, the many members have very much concerns as to whether or not the accuracy of what information is being...