Project Maven

The Trump administration’s various projects to reshape the government—even the symbolic ones—are costing U.S. taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. In its latest legislative proposal , the Department of Defense has formally asked Congress to codify its rebrand as the “Department of War,” assuring it that the name change would…

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. In a social media post, the Pentagon said U.S. forces “conducted a right-of-visit maritime interdiction” and boarded the M/T Tifani “without incident.” It’s the latest move in the…

President Donald Trump said Friday that “very interesting documents” related to UFOs will be released by the Department of Defense “very, very soon.” “As you remember, I recently directed the Secretary of War ... to begin releasing government files relating to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomenon,” Trump said at a…

In Brief Posted: 2:14 PM PDT · April 12, 2026 Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg. …

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox facing Moderna, the covid-19 shot maker whose plans for next-generation mRNA vaccines against flus and emerging pathogens have been…

Even before the Trump administration went to war with Iran, it was talking differently about its approach to combat. President Donald Trump relabeled the Department of Defense to something more in line with his values: the Department of War. His Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, promised to deliver on a philosophy…

US President Donald Trump is seeking $1.5 trillion in defense spending as part of the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request, a roughly 40 percent increase from 2026 funding levels. The proposal released Friday, March 3, said a base of $1.1 trillion will be specifically for the Department of Defense,…

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MANILA, Philippines — The United States Department of Defense has started excavating a ship wreckage off Subic Bay to recover missing American servicemen believed to be on board the Oryoku Maru sank by the US Navy during World War II.Kelly McKeague, director of the Defense POW/MIA (prisoner or war/missing in…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran enters its 32nd day, we turn now to look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping how wars…