2 Pentagon officials fired amid sweeping leak investigation

Third Pentagon official put on leave Third top Pentagon official put on leave pending leak investigation 01:56 The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News.  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an

Assessing Trump’s Diplomatic Juggling Act. Plus, How Anti-Semites Hijacked a Top Scholarly Journal.

The art of the deal: Most presidents, the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson writes, “implement only a handful of initiatives at a time that usually only become public knowledge once they have matured.” Not Trump. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” he wrote in Art of the Deal. “I keep a

A Top Architectural Journal Planned To Center Its Latest Issue on Israeli ‘Settler-Colonial Apartheid and Genocide.’ When Its Publisher Said No, the Whole Board Resigned.

The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the field’s premier scholarly journal, has dedicated past issues to topics like the “various nuances through which water and design mix” and the “relationship between stories and architecture.” Last year, the journal landed on a different topic for its fall 2025 issue: The “ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians