{"id":192743,"date":"2025-12-07T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-hegseth-faces-most-serious-crisis-of-tenure-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:32:11","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-hegseth-faces-most-serious-crisis-of-tenure-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-hegseth-faces-most-serious-crisis-of-tenure-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Hegseth faces most serious crisis of tenure – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth under siege over mishandling of classified military intelligence and Caribbean boat attacks. Key US politics stories from 6 December 2025
Pete Hegseth<\/a> is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report<\/a> accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence.
But Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump\u2019s support.
The twin crises have engulfed<\/a> the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon.
Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a \u201cdouble-tap\u201d attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.
Hegseth defended the Carribean strikes during remarks Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, saying Donald Trump has the power to take military action \u201cas he sees fit\u201d. The strikes have killed more than 80 people and now face intense scrutiny over concerns that they violated international law.
\u201cIf you\u2019re working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you. Let there be no doubt about it,\u201d Hegseth said during his keynote address. \u201cPresident Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit to defend our nation\u2019s interests. Let no country on earth doubt that for a moment.\u201d
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Donald Trump and senior members of his administration have dramatically escalated their hostile language towards immigrants in the US after an Afghan man was named a suspect in last week\u2019s shooting<\/a> of two national guard members in Washington DC.
In recent days, the US president has made sweeping statements, claiming<\/a> that there were \u201ca lot of problems with Afghans\u201d, and went on a tirade<\/a> against Somali immigrants, calling them \u201cgarbage\u201d whose country of origin \u201cstinks\u201d. Critics have described the recent derogatory remarks as \u201calarming\u201d, \u201cawful\u201d, \u201cdehumanizing\u201d and \u201cvile\u201d.
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Experts are alarmed that Pentagon press passes once held by serious journalists are now in the hands of rightwing pundits and Trump allies, after almost all credentialed reporters from traditional media companies surrendered their Pentagon press passes in October.
\u201cThey can\u2019t seek out information on their own. Doesn\u2019t sound like journalism to me. Here\u2019s what it actually is: a group of alt-right outlets who are vying to be mouthpieces and apologists for this administration,\u201d said Carole-Anne Morris, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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West Virginia\u2019s governor says the state national guard soldier who was wounded in the 26 November shooting that killed<\/a> a colleague of his in Washington DC<\/a> is \u201cslowly healing\u201d.
West Virginia\u2019s governor, Patrick Morrisey said in a post on his website that Andrew Wolfe, 24, had been recovering, if slowly, from being shot in the head. He was shot alongside Sarah Beckstrom, 20, while they patrolled the US capital as part of the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s push to deploy military members on to city streets.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Country music singer George Strait, actor-singer Michael Crawford, actor Sylvester \u201cSly\u201d Stallone and the members of the rock band Kiss all accepted medals on Saturday evening from Donald Trump, who hosted the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for a medal-presentation ceremony.
Since taking office, the president has ousted the center\u2019s board of trustees and replacing them with supporters. The president said in August that he would host the related TV show on Sunday and boasted: \u201cI believe \u2013 and I\u2019m going to make a prediction: this will be the highest-rated show that they\u2019ve ever done.\u201d
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A US senator has condemned the Trump administration<\/a> after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> (ICE) \u201cattack dog\u201d mauled one of her constituents. Democratic senator Patty Murray of Washington state<\/a> said Wilmer Toledo-Martinez suffered \u201chorrific\u201d injuries while ICE agents detained him in November and was not resisting arrest or attempting to flee when the dog attacked.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration said on Saturday it will waive an $11m fine imposed on Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/strong> as part of a $140m settlement over the carrier\u2019s meltdown<\/a> in December 2022.
Former US senator Bob Menendez has been permanently disqualified from seeking or holding public office<\/a><\/strong> in his home state of New Jersey<\/a> after being convicted of federal corruption charges, according to officials.
Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a \u201cpolitical football\u201d<\/a><\/strong> in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+ event, urging LGBTQ+ people to \u201cget up and fight back\u2019.
The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say<\/a><\/strong>,<\/a> after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. The panel\u2019s landmark vote to change the hepatitis B recommendation will create confusion and questions about routine vaccines more widely indicate a worrying trend, experts said.
The judge presiding over California\u2019s lawsuit against the Trump administration<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>challenged the federal government\u2019s authority<\/a><\/strong> and rationale for continuing to maintain command over the national guard troops it deployed to Los Angeles earlier this year.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 5 December 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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