White House says Tehran in ‘very weak position’; Iran says two seized ships transferred to its coast; US navy secretary leaves office ‘effective immediately’, says Pentagon

The Pentagon warned Congress that clearing the Strait of Hormuz could take six months, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence just days ago that Iran was removing all the mines from the critical oil passage.

Anthropic on Wednesday told an appeals court that it can’t manipulate its artificial intelligence tool Claude once it is deployed in classified Pentagon military networks — an assertion aimed at debunking the Trump administration’s attempt to brand the rapidly growing technology company as a supply chain risk.

The Defense Department says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices from the Pentagon, after a judge ruled that the military's new rules to get access to the Pentagon were unconstitutional.

Navy Secretary John Phelan has left the Trump administration in the middle of a tense naval standoff with Iran in one of the world’s most critical oil waterways. The shock departure was announced by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on X,

The nearly 50 percent jump in spending would fund many of President Donald Trump’s new military projects, but the request has to get through a skeptical Congress.

Iran may have deployed more than 20 mines in and around the Strait of Hormuz, some of which are difficult to track, an official said

The Pentagon’s largest-ever budget request earmarks $75 billion for drones and technologies to counter them, mainly for a massive increase for a little-known office working with U.S. commandos to test and evaluate various systems, according to defense officials.

The cost of damage and weapons expenditures during the war could add billions to that total.

The Pentagon revealed its 2027 budger proposal on Tuesday to fulfill Trump's request of nearly $1.5 trillion on defense spending.