#Pete Hegseth

A vehicle-mounted Active Denial System, the U.S. military's directed-energy "heat ray," in an Air Force photograph from 2007.

Pentagon lends its "heat ray" to Homeland Security for seven months of testing at the southern border

The E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in 2024.

Artificial intelligence

Appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over Claude's safeguards

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, in his 2022 official House portrait.

House leaves early for the midterms, pushing Massie's Hegseth impeachment vote to November