The Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh year in a row. This means the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed every single audit it has been subjected to, but officials hope to have things under control by the time audit No. 11 rolls around. The DOD announced the results on Friday. "Each year teams of independent public accountants audit the department's $4.1 trillion in assets and $4.3 trillion in liabilities," which are then audited by the DOD Office of...

The US Defense Department failed for the seventh straight year to score a clean financial audit, highlighting the challenge of tracking the finances of a sprawling organization that has some $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities. Auditors overseen by the Pentagon Inspector General once again declared the department’s finances were too messy to offer an opinion on whether its books were in order. But the Pentagon said it at least has a better grasp of the problem.

Announcing version 10.1 of the AllSides Media Bias Chart! We just released version 10 of the bias chart last month, ahead of the Nov. 2024 election, but our bias reviews are constantly ongoing. We made changes to the Associated Press and The Guardian's bias ratings that are now reflected in version 10.1: both were moved from the Lean Left bias category to Left, following extensive review by Americans and a politically balanced, expert panel. In addition, we added Upward News (Lean...

The New York Times (Lean Left bias) reported Elon Musk met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations days after the 2024 presidential election, which some say would violate federal law. Here’s what you need to know and how different media have covered it. This claim is purported by two anonymous Iranian officials, who, as The New York Times reports, “were not authorized to discuss policy publicly.” At this time, there’s no hard evidence of a meeting taking place, and no public...

A hacker is said to have gained access to a trove of damaging files related to Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. Attorney General, former congressman Matt Gaetz, including testimony from a woman who claims they had sex when she was 17. A file of 23 exhibits related to allegations against Gaetz, 42, were accessed by a man using the pseudonym Altam Beezley, The New York Times reported. The documents are said include sworn testimony from two witnesses at the center of the lurid claims against...

An unidentified hacker accessed copies of confidential testimony in a lawsuit involving allegations of sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday. The lawyer, Joel Leppard, who did not know the identity of the hacker, told Reuters he was informed that an unauthorized person accessed documents, including transcripts of testimony from witnesses in the lawsuit, which was brought by a...

Just over a year into Donald Trump’s first term as President, immigration agents raided a meat processing plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, arresting 104 workers. It was the largest worksite raid in a decade. Two months later, 114 were arrested at a large-scale nursery in Sandusky, Ohio. The next year, immigration agents raided poultry plants in six towns in central Mississippi, arresting 680 workers in one day.  When Trump comes back to office in January, he plans to bring back the...

House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride — the first transgender person to be elected to Congress — from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol once she’s sworn into office next year. “We’re not going to have men in women’s bathrooms,” Johnson told The Associated Press. “I’ve been consistent about that with anyone I’ve talked to about this.”

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket launched for its latest test flight at 5 p.m. ET, where the company didn’t catch its Super Heavy booster after takeoff. Today’s mission marks SpaceX’s fastest turnaround yet, with new upgrades to the booster’s propulsion systems aiming for a smoother and faster catch using the launchpad’s “Mechazilla” claws. President-elect Donald Trump attended the event with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Gaza on Tuesday that Hamas would not rule the Palestinian enclave after the war had ended and that Israel had destroyed the Islamist group's military capabilities. Netanyahu also said Israel had not given up trying to locate the 101 remaining hostages believed to be still in the enclave and he offered a $5 million reward for the return of each one.