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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apparently wants to take his talents to the U.S. Senate. The news outlet Puck reported on Sunday that Hegseth wants Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to fill her Senate seat after she wins the gubernatorial election in the state next week—a win that is widely expected to happen—and thus vacates her seat in Congress’ upper chamber.

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• Watch an exclusive clip from The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season seven premiere.
• This sneak peek from the first episode of Dragula season seven features Floor Show looks and judge Rose McGowan.
• We’re already excited for the level of fabulous creation, ruthless shade, and horror hilarity that we see from this new season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula.

Get ready, werewolves and gentleghouls, a brand-new season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula is coming your way. In season seven, premiering October 27, The Boulet Brothers will take their show to new heights of raw artistry, visceral glamor, and delicious horror. There will be shade thrown, blood spilled, and sheer nerve tested. In short, it’s going to be the most beautiful nightmare yet. To get you excited for this upcoming season, we at Nerdist have an exclusive clip from its opening episode. We can’t tell you exactly what the theme of the Floor Show will be… But we can give you a sneak peek at the drag artists’ fabulously twisted first looks and our panel of judges’ lovingly cutting commentary. And yes, that’s Scream Queen Rose McGowan at the judging table. Check out our exclusive clip from The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season seven, episode one, below.

Let us all take a long pull of poppy in judgment together. It’s our first look at Dragula season seven’s post-Floor Show judging session, with Rose McGowan bringing a fair and morbidly hilarious set of insights to the table. Again, to know the exact challenge the artists were given, we’ll have to tune into season seven’s premiere. But what we can share is that the description for episode 7.01 reveals, “New monsters land in Oz, where daring challenges and familiar faces await.” And well, we do see The Boulet Brothers wearing emerald crowns that say “Oz” on them, a ton of poppies, and a flying monkey, so there you have it. The Wizard of Oz, we have to agree, is pretty horrifying if you think about it.

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First up in our clip, we get to see returning drag performer Satanna’s first Floor Show look. Satanna is rocking a poppy field, blood, and some truly unsettling teeth. McGowan calls it psychedelic, even though one of the other artists would clearly like you to see that they think their poppy look is the best one of all. It’s shadesville already, and we love it. Satanna previously featured on Dragula Season 5, where she took 10th place after being exterminated in Episode 3. Has her drag this season evolved enough to get her further? Enjoy the clip and decide for yourself. (And we just have to say, snaps to Rose McGowan finding time to insult her dead ex in the mix as she tells us, “Just a true story.”)

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Next, we meet Scythe, a brand-new drag performer to the world of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. Scythe’s flying monkey-inspired drag is termed “yeti circus monkey, in a really cool way” and an excellent throwback to “freak show monkeys that used to be in circuses.” Scythe is rocking a “definitely original” look. And we have to agree. Scythe’s look is KILLING it. And it’s definitely one of our favorites so far, at least from what we can see in this The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula exclusive first-look clip.

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If you peer in closely to this sneak peek, you can catch glimpses of what the other performers have created for their first Dragula floor show. But for the full, delectably creepy picture, you’ll have to tune into The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season seven when it premieres on October 27, streaming exclusively on Shudder and AMC+.

Rotem Rusak is the Editor-in-Chief at Nerdist. She is a great lover of the anti-hero and is always ready for a new ship to set sail. In her work, she likes to combine fandom passion with journalistic sensibilities. Follow her on Instagram.

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The Trump administration has once again been sued for banning CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House Press pool.

While the three newsrooms were already victorious in their preliminary injunction against the administration, this recent lawsuit—filed on Monday by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute and Yale Law School’s Freedom & Information Access Clinic—advocates for the American public as well.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six plaintiffs who rely on credentialed White House reporters to do their own jobs: Yale professors Kenneth Roth and Beverly Gage, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes, Press Watch editor Daniel Froomkin, student journalist Ethan Young, and New York City high school teacher Peter Schmidt-Nowara.

“The Policy violates the First Amendment. The White House has long maintained a protected forum for certain members of the press to engage in the First Amendment activities of newsgathering and reporting,” the lawsuit reads. “The Policy is unconstitutional because it conditions access and participation in the White House Press Forum on criteria that are viewpoint based and unreasonable.”

“The ultimate injury here … is to the democratic public,” says the lawsuit, which was filed in New York.

“The White House cannot decide what information Americans receive by punishing critical reporting,” said Knight First Amendment Institute deputy litigation director Katie Fallow. “When the White House expels reporters because of their coverage and threatens others with expulsion, it isn’t just the press that suffers — the public loses access to independent reporting and gets something closer to government propaganda.”

This debacle first began on September 18, when Trump dramatically denied CNN, MS NOW, and Politico access to the White House due to unfavorable coverage of his administration. Since then, they have been granted a temporary injunction allowing them to return to the press pool—but Trump has defied them, continuing to deny CNN access to his Air Force One jet. Only time will tell how Trump reacts to this most recent legal action against him.

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The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.

Anthropic has filed for an IPO that could rank among Wall Street's biggest ever, revealing an $80.7 billion half-year loss, a startlingly complex governance structure, and warnings that its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or create "existential risks" to society.

The Claude maker filed its S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday as it prepares to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The company has not yet disclosed its proposed share price or how many shares it plans to sell.

Of the filing's 614 pages, 94 are devoted to risk factors. But it's Anthropic's financial figures that are likely to raise eyebrows first.

The Claude maker reported $16.3 billion in revenue for the first six months of 2026, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier. It also posted a whopping $80.7 billion net loss, although $72.4 billion of that was an accounting adjustment tied to the company's soaring valuation, not money it actually spent.

Anthropic's operating loss was considerably smaller at $693 million, down from $2.1 billion a year earlier. By its own adjusted accounting, the company made a $1.6 billion operating profit in the first half of 2026, for a margin of around 10 percent.

Whether it can keep making money on those terms is another matter. Training and running Claude requires an eye-watering amount of computing power, and Anthropic will need much more to keep pace with its rivals. A $1.6 billion adjusted profit won't count for much if the infrastructure bills keep growing faster than the business.

Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, told The Register that Anthropic's IPO could leave ordinary investors paying a premium for growth that has yet to translate into sustained profits.

"A huge pool of private capital has allowed AI businesses to scale up and command extraordinary valuations long before they reach the stock market," she said, adding that investors buying in at the IPO will face a price with "a hefty dose of future success baked in."

The financial risks are fairly conventional by Silicon Valley standards, but the warnings about what Claude might get up to are perhaps less so.

Anthropic claims that models, including its own, have exhibited unexpected or self-preserving behavior, including attempts to resist shutdown, conceal information, and produce outputs resembling blackmail. It also warns that sufficiently advanced AI systems could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to society” if deployed without adequate safeguards.

That's not to say Claude is currently blackmailing customers. Anthropic has observed some of this behavior in testing, but it also identifies more immediate security concerns as it gives its models access to external tools, code repositories, and corporate systems.

Anthropic warns that attackers could hide malicious instructions in websites, documents, or API responses that its AI agents can access. If an agent follows those instructions, it could use a customer's permissions to steal data, tamper with code, or make unauthorized transactions.

Even testing whether the models will behave themselves is proving tricky. Anthropic reckons some models behave differently when they detect or suspect they're being evaluated, making it harder to predict what they will do outside the testing environment.

Keeping its models on a short leash could also cost Anthropic business. The company acknowledges that holding back more capable systems could give competitors an advantage, something it has already risked by restricting access to its Mythos model through Project Glasswing because of its ability to uncover security vulnerabilities.

The founders aren't promising to put shareholders first, either. In a letter accompanying the filing, Dario and Daniela Amodei and their fellow co-founders tell prospective investors "not to think of your purchase in purely transactional terms." Anthropic may pass up lucrative business if it considers the risks too great, and investors won't have much say if they disagree.

Under the proposed structure, governance structure includes five different classes of stock. By comparison, Google has three.

The seven co-founders will retain 50.1 percent of the voting power on shareholder matters, while a separate Long-Term Benefit Trust will get to appoint a majority of the board. In other words, Wall Street is being invited to bankroll Anthropic's AI ambitions, but not necessarily to call the shots.

Anthropic wants Wall Street's money to build ever more powerful AI, but is warning investors that it might turn down profits to keep that AI under control. Judging by those 94 pages of risk factors, keeping it under control is far from guaranteed.®

Norwegian officials are dumbfounded after President Trump suggested banning Norwegians from the U.S., calling Norway a “shithouse country” during a Michigan rally on Sunday.

Trump made the comments while complaining to the audience in Port Huron, Michigan, that the Nobel Prize was won by a “woman nobody had ever heard of.”

“I said ‘What about me? Do they do two of them?’ Think of it, I settled, so I’m not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country actually,” Trump said to laughter.

“Denmark? Take ‘em. Sweden. Norway, I don’t think so because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize,” Trump continued. “I don’t want anybody from Norway, I don’t want anything to do with Norway.”

Norwegian officials are shaking their heads.

“He knows very well that the Nobel committee is independent,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said to NRK, the country’s public broadcaster, on Monday. “We have reminded him of that, in case anyone is wondering, and that is still the case.”

It’s funny that Trump is so annoyed, considering that he said in January that he actually doesn’t care. He still railed against Norway at the time, claiming, “If anybody thinks that Norway doesn’t control the Nobel Prize, they are just kidding. They have a board, but it’s controlled by Norway, and I don’t care what Norway says.”

Even funnier is the fact that way back in his first term, Trump reportedly complained in an Oval Office meeting about accepting immigrants from “shithole countries” like Haiti and places in Africa, and instead suggested the U.S. should take in more people from countries like Norway, mentioning that country in particular. He said similar words at a rally last December. To Trump, though, being snubbed for an award is enough to override his racist preferences for immigrants.

A judge ruled Monday that Maurene Comey was wrongfully terminated from her position as the former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, ordering the Justice Department to reinstate her with back pay.

Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired in July 2025. The DOJ did not provide a rationale for her ouster at the time, simply citing Donald Trump’s authority to do so as the sole justification.

In a federal lawsuit, Comey argued that her firing was part of the president’s political retribution campaign against her father, who testified before Congress during Trump’s first term regarding the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In a 55-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman declared that Comey’s termination was not only unfounded, but it was also illegal as it fundamentally violated the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

The government’s other defense, which cited Article II of the Constitution barring Congress from regulating the removal of assistant U.S. attorneys, was similarly fraught, as it “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent,” according to Furman.

“Indeed, to accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system,” Furman wrote.

Comey was involved in several high profile cases prior to her firing, including prosecutions against musician Sean Combs (also known as P. Diddy) and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She is expected to receive back pay dating from the time she was fired to December 2025, when she obtained a new job in private practice.

Trump has been very public about his contempt for James Comey. The president fired Comey during his first term in the midst of the Trump-Russia probe, prematurely ending the director’s 10-year term. His decision to do so prompted a follow-up investigation by Comey’s predecessor, special counsel Robert Mueller, who determined that Russian influence in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic,” and found substantial (if non-prosecutable) evidence that Trump had obstructed justice by firing Comey.

In April, a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina indicted Comey on two felony charges relating to a seaside photo the former FBI director shared on Instagram that depicted seashells in an arrangement reading: “86 47.” Eighty-six is a popular phrase used in the restaurant industry to signify that an item has been crossed off the menu.

Yet the Department of Justice claimed that the message would be interpreted by any person “familiar with the circumstances” as a “serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president,” according to Comey’s indictment.

Whether or not the government’s case against the elder Comey will pan out remains to be seen. However, recent revelations regarding Trump’s personal involvement in the initial investigation could unravel the suit.

This story has been updated.

President Donald Trump can’t stop talking about other people’s posteriors during his midterm campaign blitz.  

At a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, Saturday, Trump continued to rave about Ohio Senator Jon Husted’s buttocks. 

“I looked at his ass, and I’ve never done that with a man before,” Trump said. “Off the record, women yes, men no.”

Then Trump decided to ogle someone who was actually in the state instead.

“By the way I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj!” Trump said, as the crowd cheered. “That’s hard to miss! That’s—stand up! That’s hard to miss!”

The rapper-singer joined Trump onstage, telling the president that she’d support him if he ran a third time. It’s not clear what any of this had to do with Michigan’s Senate race. Trump did eventually turn his attention to making wildly Islamophobic remarks against Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, calling him a “jihadist” who was “on the side of the terrorists.”

The president’s frequent fantasizing about other people’s bodies has become a mainstay of his weird political rallies, which have started to feel more like a farewell tour than a campaign blitz. Even if Trump isn’t impeached following the midterm elections, it’s not looking likely that the 80-year-old president will hit the campaign trail again. 

Two Catholic bishops have expressed intense regret at their recent photo op with President Trump, calling the widely-circulated images of their White House meeting an exploitative act that was “publicized by the administration without the consent of the participants.”

“The meeting was in no way an endorsement of the president, his policies, or his party.... We were told the meeting was to be a private discussion, that several Catholic members of the cabinet might make an appearance, and that there could be an opportunity to pray privately with the president,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob wrote Sunday in a statement titled “A Public Apology.”

“We were then directed to stand behind him and pray. After which several photos were taken and we were ushered out. Unbeknownst to the group of bishops a video was also taken. But permission for the public distribution or posting of either the video or photos was not given by the bishops,” Grob continued. “It did not take long thereafter for the White House to post a video and photos of the prayer. I soon began receiving messages of serious concern over the possibility that I had inadvertently participated in a political event less than two weeks before a national election. I also heard from some who felt wounded because of the ways they or their family had been harmed by the president’s policies.”

Iowa Bishop William Joensen expressed similar sentiments.

“I wish I had been more shrewd and less simple, like those who exploited our meeting for partisan political purpose,” he wrote. “I pray I am more prudent and wise going forward, even as I remain resolute in my openness to engaging and praying for political leaders at all levels.”

Catholic Archbishops and Bishops pray with President Trump in the Oval Office ❤️ https://t.co/facV5wTGQQ

— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) October 22, 2026

The White House meeting was organized by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation. And Trump is about as pious as his policies (not very). This made the images from the meeting and the shady nature in which it unfolded all the more questionable—and regrettable—for some of the clergymen involved.

“I feel a heavy sadness, not only over the pain I caused, but also for the fact that something so sacred to a group of religious leaders, prayer to our Heavenly Father, would be manipulated in that way,” Grob continued. “We came in good faith to try to work for the betterment of our fellow human beings, to ease their suffering, to build up the common good, and to pray with a president, not to pose for a political photo opportunity to benefit the few. We should never have been put in that position by the White House.”

The number of polls has dwindled in this last week and change ahead of November’s midterm elections. As such, a sort of cabin fever has fallen over the online political world as pundits, operatives, and assorted political junkies desperately search for something—anything—to obsess over while waiting for Election Day. For Republicans, there’s an added desperation to change the political…

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This Thursday, 29 October, The Register hosts HPE and NVIDIA at one dinner table in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries: where the data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as evidence a year from now. The table is nearly set. If you have been meaning to ask for a place, this is the week.

Editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff chairs. HPE sends Bharath Ramesh, Head of Product, AI Factory Solutions, and Tracy Mills, Acting Director Federal Systems Integrators and Distinguished Chief Technologist Federal. NVIDIA sends Bert Condensa, Vice President for Enterprise AI Factory Segment Sales. They are there to take questions, with no slides and no recording, and the chair stops a pitch before it starts.

The evening runs under the Chatham House Rule. That is the point of it. The things worth knowing about sovereign AI infrastructure, such as what a bank had to rebuild or which option somebody paid for and would not buy again, get said at a table like this and nowhere else.

The agenda: which infrastructure options hold a boundary, what each one costs, and whether any of it survives production.

The seats are for technology, data and risk leaders in healthcare, financial services, research, pharmaceuticals, government and higher education. Dinner runs from 6.00pm to 8.30pm at Fiola Mare, Washington DC. Places go by invitation and the last of them are going now.

Request one here.

Government and public sector guests: where your agency’s ethics rules require it, you can pay your own share and we will provide a receipt. Please say so when you request an invitation.

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NASA's Swift observatory made its final observation on October 20 and is expected to re-enter the atmosphere in the next few weeks after a failed rescue attempt over the summer.

Designed to study gamma-ray bursts, Swift was launched on November 20, 2004, on a two-year mission. It has lasted almost 22 years, but atmospheric drag is inexorably lowering the spacecraft's orbit, so reentry is likely just shy of the vehicle's 22nd anniversary. Swift has no propulsion system to save itself.

Swift is now orbiting at an altitude of less than 171 miles above Earth's surface, meaning it cannot keep its telescopes steady when pointing at astronomical targets.

Because the spacecraft could no longer compensate for the increased drag, it dropped into safe mode. A command was then sent from the ground that, according to NASA, "effectively ended Swift operations to prepare it for re-entry."

The descent of Swift has accelerated in recent years due to increased solar activity. Last year, NASA awarded Katalyst Space a contract for a high-risk, high-reward mission to boost the observatory to a higher orbit. Swift's science operations were curtailed to maximize opportunities for Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft, but alas, a rendezvous never happened, and engineers opted to reactivate operations to eke out as much science as possible.

The expected side effect was increased drag on the spacecraft and, as expected, Swift sank rapidly until operations had to cease.

Swift has been an astonishingly productive instrument during its long life. According to NASA, it has observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and more than 1,400 supernova explosions. It has conducted an all-sky X-ray survey and seen stars shredded by black holes.

The full Swift archive comes to approximately 12 terabytes. Not too bad for something that was only supposed to last two years.

NASA now faces the problem that it has no direct replacement for Swift. As well as paying tribute to the observatory's contributions, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement:

"To support rapid response to cosmic events in a post-Swift world, we're exploring our ability to use and augment NASA's fleet of existing space telescopes, from fast-to-orbit commercial capabilities to efficient, innovative new missions." ®

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

Anthropic’s Claude got around a paywall to access Georgia voters’ data without human authorization.

Anthropic confirmed to Axios Sunday that the company’s artificial intelligence model had, without prompting, requested a digital entry pass, or “access token,” to collect aggregate vote counts for a statistics project.

“Claude did not access the state’s voter registration system, change any voting records, or pull any individual voter records,” Anthropic said, adding that it had placed guardrails to prevent the chatbot from taking these sorts of actions in the future.

The company first notified the Georgia secretary of state’s office and the White House three weeks ago about the spontaneous access. Trump administration officials urged the state office to disclose the incident, but those calls went unheeded, a source told Axios.

This revelation comes as Anthropic unveiled its Initial Public Offering filing Monday, ahead of what is expected to be one of the largest stock debuts in history at an estimated value of more than $2 trillion. It also comes weeks after one of its researchers warned that the company’s product could cause a mass extinction event.

This is just the latest instance of an AI company being forced to disclose its model’s unauthorized behavior.

Democrats just dropped a heavy hammer on the president, eight days out from Election Day.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-page report Monday morning accusing Donald Trump of participating in Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex schemes. The caucus also accused the Trump administration of a broad cover-up, designed to shield the president from blowback as it tried to roll out the release of the Epstein files to the general public.

The report cites the experiences of 11 women, FBI records, and documents released through the Epstein Files Transparency Act. At least five women accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company, according to interviews conducted by the committee. Others said there were “apparent attempts” by Epstein and his longtime girlfriend and associate Ghislaine Maxwell to traffic them to the real estate magnate.

Beatrice Keul told lawmakers that Trump “violently raped” her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel. She further described the beauty pageants as a “hunting ground” that Epstein and Trump would use to find and “prey” on young women and girls. Jill Harth also shared an account of a party at Mar-a-Lago in 1994, where she said Trump aggressively pursued and sexually assaulted her. Trump and Epstein were the only men present, Harth told lawmakers.

In total, at least 28 women have accused Trump of rape or sexual misconduct.

The report concludes that Trump and Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and longtime friend of the president as well as a former senior Trump administration official, “may have been co-conspirators” in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring in the 1990s.

The report also claims that Trump’s Justice Department deliberately or prematurely shut down investigations into Trump-related allegations made by some Epstein survivors. It also accuses Attorney General Todd Blanche of specifically instructing Maxwell not to discuss a survivor whose account implicated the president.

“Trump’s Justice Department appears to be covering up these crimes to protect the President,” said Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin in a statement. “The women who survived Epstein deserve to be heard, Congress must have the complete files required by law, and an independent special counsel must investigate Epstein’s co-conspirators and DOJ’s cover-up and ensure that state and foreign prosecutors have the evidence they need to pursue justice.”

Last week, reports emerged that White House officials were involved in drafting the infamous July 2025 FBI-DOJ memo that effectively shut down future Epstein-related investigations. The memo created explosive public backlash even among MAGA supporters for declaring at the time that there was no Epstein “client list,” no punishable co-conspirators to the pedophile’s crimes, and no grounds for further investigation.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thinks a Senate seat would help him avoid impeachment or President Trump giving him the axe.

Puck reports that Hegseth is hoping that Tennessee’s incumbent Senator Marsha Blackburn wins her election for governor next week and appoints him to fill her vacant seat. Hegseth lived in Tennessee for three years before Trump appointed him to the Cabinet. On October 17, Hegseth was spotted at a University of Tennessee football game seated next to Blackburn and Republican Representative Tim Burchett.

Hegseth’s tenure has earned him both Republican and Democratic critics. He has fired or pushed out multiple senior military leaders, endangered U.S. troops with the “Signalgate” group chat scandal, and burned through missile stockpiles in the war with Iran. Outgoing Republican Representative Thomas Massie has led calls for his impeachment, which forced House Speaker Mike Johnson to dismiss the House early to avoid embarrassment.

Last week, The Telegraph reported that current and former Pentagon officials are ready and willing to “spill their guts” if Congress moves to investigate and impeach Hegseth.

“There’s going to be a lot of people that are going to very quietly go to the chair of the Armed [Services] Committee and are going to spill their guts, provide them with everything they can and leak everything they can,” an anonymous source told the British newspaper. “It’ll be horrendous. It’ll be consistent embarrassment.”

The Pentagon denies that Hegseth is seeking such an escape.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, Secretary Hegseth’s singular priority is leading the War Department and delivering on the President’s America First agenda,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told The Independent.

Hegseth’s plan might run into resistance, as Burchett is also eyeing the seat, and has spent much of the year campaigning for Blackburn. With Trump’s unpopularity shattering presidential records and next week’s midterm results looking worse and worse, it’s only natural that the rats will want to start fleeing the ship. Will Republicans look to protect Hegseth, or leave him to his fate?

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.