Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a callback to the department’s original name used from 1789 to 1947.

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“If all of this was happening in another nation, we would not hesitate to describe it clearly,” said 9News anchor Kyle Clark.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.

President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; Congress did:

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The change will return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive defense of anti-vaccine talking points during his Senate hearing alarmed both Democrats and Republicans—and revealed a bolder Kennedy than previously seen, Nicholas Florko argues. https://theatln.tc/whymF2of

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."