Republican governor Mike Dunleavy orders the inquiry into whether Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited candidates to draw votes from the Republican incumbent Sign up for the Breaking News US email Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has jettisoned the top planner in the US military, the Associated Press and other outlets have reported. The firing, the latest in a string of shake-ups in top staff at the Pentagon since Trump launched the war in Iran in February, comes as the Trump administration is reportedly mulling new, escalated military action in Iran after the midterms. Continue reading...