Paulina Smolinski

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Paulina Smolinski

NowPentagon Press Association calls Defense Secretary Hegseth’s access restrictions ‘a direct attack’CNN — Journalists who cover the US military say they are extremely concerned by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s constraints on press access at the Pentagon.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Paulina Smolinski

West Point, N.Y. – President Trump is addressing the 2025 graduating class at West Point on Saturday in his first military commencement address of his second term. The last time the president gave a speech at the U.S. Military Academy came amid nationwide reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Paulina Smolinski

Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was raped and murdered by a fugitive from El Salvador in 2023, joined Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at a White House briefing on Wednesday. Morin described in detail the murder of her daughter, a 37-year-old mother of five, as she was exercising on a hiking trail outside of Baltimore. Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was convicted of the attack on Monday.

1 month ago | lucianne.com | Paulina Smolinski

Original ArticlePosted By: Harlowe, 4/12/2025 1:36:53 PMPresident Trump on Friday night authorized the military to take control of a strip of public land along the southern border. [Snip] A memorandum released by the White House directs the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security to transfer the jurisdiction of federal land along the southern border to the Department of Defense.

2 months ago | cbsnews.com | Paulina Smolinski

Japan's military presence upsets islanders Tokyo — President Trump in early March criticized what he characterized as a one-sided security alliance between the U.S. and Japan. Officials in Japan have heard these comments from Mr. Trump before, and so far, they've continued shaping the country's national security plans based on the assurance of backing from the United States. Government officials admit they really have no other choice.