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President Biden has left Americans in Afghanistan beholden to the masterminds of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks while his spokeswoman is arguing semantics about terminology, "Fox & Friends" host Pete Hegseth said on Monday. Hegseth and "Fox News Primetime" host Jesse Watters noted White House press secretary Jen Psaki debated Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy's use of the word "stranded" to describe Americans unable to escape Afghanistan due to Taliban checkpoints. Psaki claimed "stranded" is an "irresponsible" term, and that Biden is "committed to bringing Americans who want to come home home." Hegseth, who is a retired...

Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth What is being done to Laura Loomer and her congressional campaign is full-on 1984. See below from @parler_app . Imagine being blocked and banned — by name — as you run a credible race for Congress?

"The Five" panelists responded Monday to Democrats who criticized President Trump's warning to Iran over possible retaliation for the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleiman after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called the president a “monster" and accused him of committing "war crimes" for ordering the attack.

Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth said Sunday that he was banned from Twitter for sharing a screenshot of a manifesto that appeared to be from the Saudi gunman who killed three sailors at Naval Air Station Pensacola Friday morning. Mohammed Alshamrani, a Royal Saudi Air Force officer, was killed by police, but his extreme anti-American views were visible in a Twitter account under his name. A tweet was posted before the shooting suggesting the attack was inspired by al Qaeda and its founder, Osama bin Laden. “America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil,” the message...

U.S. Army Capt. Pete Hegseth graduated from Princeton less than five years ago, but since then he has served as a volunteer with the 101st Airborne in its 2005-06 Iraq deployment. This included stints as a platoon leader in Baghdad during the December 2005 elections and as a civil-military operations officer in Samarra for seven months. When the Golden Mosque was destroyed there two years ago, triggering a huge escalation of sectarian violence over the following months, Hegseth was awakened by the explosion. Now, Hegseth is fighting on another front in the war on terror — the one in Washington....

Halfway around the world from Iraq, an important battle is taking place in America. This fight involves no IEDs or M4 rifles. It’s a war of words that has sparked heated discussions at both dinner tables and in the halls of Congress.  As this debate intensifies, military veterans are increasingly speaking out and engaging in political activism. Veterans’ groups supporting and opposing the war have set their sights on Army Gen. David Petraeus’ congressional testimony in September as a crucial moment for their cause.For the anti-war left, an organization called VoteVets.org has taken Capitol Hill by storm. Jon Soltz, the...