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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday instructed the military to shed 20 percent of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration moves to reduce inefficiency in the military. Hegseth also called for the National Guard to remove 20 percent of its top officers and directed the military to cut an additional ten percent of its general and flag officers, which could include one-star officers. In earlier rounds of staff reductions, the secretary explained that the firings are “a reflection of the president wanting the right people around him to execute the national security approach we want to take.” In…

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to keep the American intelligence community from cooperating with Germany over its “police state” activities against the anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD). While the right-wing populist AfD has become popular amongst Germans and topped a national poll for the first time in the party’s history last month, reports out of the European nation revealed that police officers may face expulsion if they are found to be AfD members after a spy agency classified the party as being “right-wing extremist.” Leaders in the…

A former aide to Rep. Gerry Connolly has quickly jumped into the race to replace the longtime member of Congress from Northern Virginia — with the blessing of his former boss. James Walkinshaw, a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors who served as Connolly’s chief of staff for more than a decade, cast himself as a fierce opponent of President Donald Trump’s agenda as he announced his candidacy Tuesday for the seat in the heavily Democratic suburb of Washington. He comes with an endorsement from the retiring member of Congress, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,…

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will now have to respond to the petition and consider holding a referendum Activists in Slovakia have gathered nearly 400,000 signatures demanding the lifting of EU sanctions against Russia. The country’s president, Peter Pellegrini, will now have to respond to the petition and consider holding a referendum within a month.Members of the Slovak Revival Movement (SHO) and the national party DOMOV, who are behind the petition, have submitted the signatures to the office of the president. They want the government to pose the following question to its citizens: “Do you agree that… sanctions against the Russian…

This weekend in Rapid City, South Dakota, a life-size bronze statue of President Trump was officially unveiled as part of the “City of Presidents” project, a privately-funded art initiative that places full-sized statues of every U.S. president throughout downtown Rapid City. Trump takes his rightful place alongside Reagan, Coolidge, Taft, McKinley, Jefferson, Washington, and the rest. The statue was designed by South Dakota sculptor James Maher, and it captures Trump mid-speech. The statue, which was completed prior to Trump’s 2024 historic election victory, will be housed in the city’s Elks Theater over the summer before being installed permanently outdoors. “The…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for Tuesday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: ForbesToday’s ‘Wordle’ #1417 Hints, Clues And Answer For Tuesday, May 6thBy Erik Kain It’s the very first Wordle Wednesday of May and I have another puzzle for you to solve before we kick off today’s Wordle. I do this every Wednesday just for kicks, and I hope you enjoy the extra challenge. I’ll post the answer tomorrow. Here’s the puzzle: This is another version of last week’s puzzle. There are three boxes in a room. One of these…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the Department of State to close the Office of Palestinian Affairs and merge it with the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, according to several reports. Tammy Bruce, a spokesperson with the Department of State, confirmed during a hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee would be taking “the steps necessary to implement the merger over the coming weeks,” according to CNN. “This decision will restore the first Trump term framework of a unified US diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital that reports to the US ambassador to Israel,” Bruce said. “Ambassador (Mike) Huckabee…

The Economy Throws the Fed a Curveball When the Federal Reserve officials last met in mid-March to decide on interest rates, they signaled hopes that the path of the economy would become clearer over time—giving them a solid perch from which to shape monetary policy. The economy had other plans. In the seven weeks since that meeting, every key indicator has thrown a curveball. Growth is down, inflation is down, jobs are up, imports are up, and markets are wobbling. Stocks were down a lot in April until they weren’t anymore and ended the month flat. The Fed isn’t any…

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) says it has officially saved over $1,000 per taxpayer. DOGE says its estimated total savings has now reached $165 billion. This is all a combination of “asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions,” according to the official DOGE website. However, that cost savings breaks down to $1,024.84 per taxpayer, and DOGE calculates that figure by accounting for approximately 161 million individual federal taxpayers in the U.S. Currently, DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” lists 9,497 terminated contracts totaling $32 billion in…

Key Republican moderates said Tuesday they had grown more comfortable with a revised House GOP effort to overhaul Medicaid following an evening meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson and other leaders. Johnson needs to find near-unanimity among House Republicans as he finalizes the GOP megabill central to President Donald Trump’s agenda, and several of the centrists emerged from the closed-door huddle sounding closer to yes. The plan is centered around work requirements for beneficiaries, more frequent eligibility checks in the program and cracking down on coverage for noncitizens, they said. Meanwhile, some controversial changes the moderates had blanched at appear to…