The House is expected to vote this week on a bill authorizing $900 billion for military programs. It includes boosting pay for service members, cutting Pentagon diversity efforts and requiring footage to be released of forces blowing up alleged drug boats.

The Senate could approve the measure in coming days, and lawmakers expressed confidence that President Donald Trump will sign it into law.

Current operations focus on stopping boats with lethal force, but the Pentagon has plenty of tactics and technology to stop fast drug boats without harming the occupants.

The New York Times is suing to try to stop the Pentagon from imposing new rules on journalists who cover the military.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth unveiled the inaugural Pentagon Christmas tree on Wednesday in recognition of service families. Hegseth, along with his wife Jennifer, replaced a "17-year-old Amelanchier shrub that had recently fallen into decline and was scheduled for removal next year" with a 14-foot Nellie Stevens Holly Christmas tree,

The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information.

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is now a member of the MAGA-aligned Pentagon press corps, after resigning from Congress amid scandal in November 2024 and starting his own show at One America News Netwo

The lawsuit says the Pentagon's policy is "exactly the type of speech- and press-restrictive scheme" courts have ruled violates the First Amendment.

Federal appeals court allows Pentagon to enforce President Donald Trump's transgender military ban while legal challenge continues in "a great win" for the administration.