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The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate program to focus on new classes of warships the service can build faster, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced Tuesday on social media. Under the terms negotiated with shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the Wisconsin shipyard will continue to build Constellation (FFG-62) and Congress (FFG-63) but will cancel the next four planned warships.

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A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands died Saturday after attempting to rescue children from high surf at a Kauai beach, authorities said.

He should be Secretary of Defense.

Remember that he said to disobey "illegal orders", factual and within his freedom of speech rights to say so... And as the trump administration takes away our rights Publicly, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been highly critical of the six Democratic lawmakers who released a video last week urging military service members to disobey illegal orders, calling the lawmakers the “Seditious Six” and categorizing their message as “despicable, reckless, and false.” That criticism has particularly focused on Sen. Mark Kelly, the member of the group who had the longest tenure in the military and who achieved the highest rank of captain in the Navy.

Donald Trump defended Steve Witkoff late Tuesday night after a report revealed the U.S. president’s Russia envoy had secretly advised the Kremlin on how to sell a Ukraine deal.

What a scum bucket. Don't get the kids involved in an adult fight. Where are they going to meet? Hedgehog’s plea also asks that the military no longer allow Scouts to meet at US military institutions.

It marks an escalation from the Trump administration, which has painted the “illegal orders” video as a dangerous undermining of the president’s authority as commander in chief and vowed to take it seriously. The Democrats, meanwhile, have argued they were simply restating the law.

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Less than a year after its last deployment, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) quietly departed Friday from Naval Station San Diego, Calif., for a Pacific deployment, USNI News has learned. A Pentagon official confirmed Abraham Lincoln deployed to the Pacific as part of Carrier Strike Group 3, the embarked Carrier Air Wing 9 and Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121), which is serving as the air defense commander platform for the CSG. No other details were available.

Kelly, a retired Navy captain, was one of six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video last week to remind members of the military and intelligence community that they do not need to obey illegal orders. Trump lashed out at those Democrats at the time, calling for their arrests and labeling them as “traitors.”

The Pentagon said on Monday that it is investigating Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, one of six Democratic lawmakers who made a video posted to social media last week reminding active duty service members that they can refuse to follow illegal orders. In a statement, the Pentagon said that Kelly, a retired Navy pilot, could be recalled to active duty for “court-martial proceedings” or other measures related to his alleged misconduct.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they have joined their colleagues in urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision delaying cleanups of toxic chemicals at hundreds of military installations in Oregon and nationwide. The senators also sought protections for military families and nearby communities from contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the affected sites.

Why is that legal opinion classified in the first place? A group of mostly Democratic senators is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to declassify and release the legal opinion underpinning the Trump administration’s airstrikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Monday it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after the former Navy pilot joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for troops to defy “illegal orders.” The Pentagon’s statement, posted on social media, cited a federal law that allows retired service members to be recalled to active duty on orders of the defense secretary for possible court-martial or other measures. Can military personnel refuse to obey illegal orders?

Two key Senate Democrats have launched an inquiry after a ProPublica investigation revealed this week that a White House official had intervened on behalf of his former legal clients — pro-Trump influencer Andrew Tate and his brother — during a federal investigation.

My one suggestion is that now that it is coming out that servicemembers are contacting there representative, that the congressmen seek out legal council as backup... On "This Week," Slotkin said the lawmakers put out the video because officers had approached them directly with concerns. "You don't have to take my word for it. We've had report after report of legal officer, JAG officers, coming forward and saying, 'Look, I push back on this. I'm not sure that this is legal,'" Slotkin said. "There is such things as illegal orders. That's why it's in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Going back to Nuremberg, right? And it's just a -- it's a totally benign statement. And if the president is concerned about it, then he should stay deeply within the law."

Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Since it was created in 2018, the federal government's cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials how to protect polling places from attacks and gamed out how to respond to the unexpected, such as an Election Day bomb threat or sudden disinformation campaign

One Monday in mid-October, after a year in US immigration detention, officers arrived unannounced at Majid's cell in Texas. They told him simply to "pack up" - that he was being moved - even though an immigration judge had already granted him protection from removal five months ago. Shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles, he was driven through the night to a military airfield in Louisiana. Majid - not his real name - had fled Iran for the US in October 2024, after repeated detentions and alleged torture, first because of his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests, and later because of his conversion to Christianity.

Legal experts and White House critics are worried the Justice Department (DOJ) could become a piggy bank for those with grievances as President Trump and a number of his allies pursue million-dollar settlement claims. While Trump’s push for $230 million in compensation for two probes into his conduct would be the most lucrative of the suits, others in his orbit are also seeking millions from the DOJ.

Wasted taxpayer funded resources... The two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages, had been sent there on Mr. Patel’s orders. But seeing that the event at the Georgia World Congress Center had been secured, and that Ms. Wilkins was in no apparent danger, they left before the event was over, according to six people with knowledge of the incident.