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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's involvement in promotions across the military has raised concerns that he is targeting officers for their race or gender, their association with diversity, equity and ...

"Military promotions are given to those who have earned them," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote in an X post in response to The New York Times' report Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Defense Secretary ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotion of eight Navy captains to be one-star admirals, including two female and two Black officers, according to current and former U.S. officials. At ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth struck down promotions for at least two female and two Black male Navy officers. Hegseth, who has waged war on women and minorities within his department, removed the ...

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A federal court blocked Alabama from using its new congressional map on May 26, in a blow to a Republican effort to oust a Democratic incumbent in November's midterm elections. The judges ordered the ...

A panel of three U.S. judges on Tuesday blocked Alabama from using a congressional map that would eliminate one of the state's two majority-Black U.S. House districts, a setback for Republican efforts ...