Pete Hegseth’s purge of the U.S. military

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<p> <a href="https://apple.news/A0hLpdpmVSb2St0Rny6PP3g" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NBC</a> national-security reporter Gordon Lubold discusses the U.S. military’s growing leadership vacuum under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.</p> <p>A federal whistleblower says the Postal Service has been secretly working to overhaul mail-in voting to comply with one of President Trump’s executive orders, despite a judge recently blocking it. The <a href="https://apple.news/ANrGlvKaoTtGuuGTxKXUi-A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>’s Patrick Marley explains how the system could prevent thousands of Americans from receiving ballots for the midterms.</p> <p>Plus, how around 900 students <a href="https://apple.news/A_YSa74ddTxOtP8L3yz9w9w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">barely escaped</a> deadly flash floods in Nepal, a judge ruled that the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk <a href="https://apple.news/AH7DStCWlRvG5D25uVS9QbA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will stand trial</a> for murder, Germany is <a href="https://apple.news/AGki0d7G9SBiL6nyvsWBCvw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blaming Russia</a> for an attempted airport drone attack, and how an MLB team <a href="https://apple.news/ApOzAwwEpTEqfBmYUf1Jd3Q" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">swung its way</a> to the top of its division.</p>