The moves by Apple and the Pentagon are part of a broader U.S. push to nearshore rare earth supply chains. Earlier this year, President Trump proposed annexing Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory estimated to contain $4.4 trillion worth of rare earth reserves. Vice President JD Vance made a surprise visit in support of the plan.

U.S. military spending broke the $1 trillion mark, and my legislative proposal that rescinds the Big Beautiful Bill’s $156 billion in Pentagon spending and sends people $600 checks with the savings.

The Pentagon awards $200 million contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to develop AI systems for US defense and national security operations.

A U. S. district court released a comprehensive list on July 11 of every book banned from use in Pentagon-run schools, which includes a slew of highly sexual LGBT topics directed at children and other leftist literature.

The Pentagon pulled senior Defense Department officials from the Aspen Security Forum on Monday, a day before the four-day summit in Colorado was set to begin. Why it matters: The bipartisan national security forum has attracted Republican and Democratic administration officials for years.

Top officials at the Pentagon office that played a key role in designing the bombs used in the strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities more than two weeks ago cannot say whether the weapons were successful in reaching the deeply buried bunkers.

For years, Republican and Democratic administrations have dispatched civilian Pentagon officials and military commanders to the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

Shares of the little-known mining company soared on Thursday on news that the Pentagon would become the largest shareholder.

Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / ) Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary,

The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.