Pentagon

• Judge seems skeptical of legal justification for Pentagon's punishment of Sen. Mark Kelly - A federal judge said Tuesday that he knows of no U.S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagon's censuring of a sitting U.S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump administration. Se
• Dozens of former military leaders defend Mark Kelly in Pentagon fight - Military leaders including the former secretaries of the Army and Navy called the Pentagon's actions against Kelly "remarkable and unprecedented."
• Franklin Graham Says ‘God Also Hates’ and ‘Is a God of War’ at Pentagon’s ‘Christmas Worship Service’ - Franklin Graham told participants at the Pentagon 's "Christmas Worship Service" that the "God of love" they're familiar with "also hates."
• Troops are self-censoring and scrubbing social media amid a Pentagon crackdown on political speech - The Pentagon is policing troops' speech in ways experts call an "abuse." Some service members are self-censoring and scrambling to scrub social media.
• Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Executions at Sea - Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.