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Aug 23, 2026, 2:10 AMBREAKING: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon fires three journalists at the independent military publication Stars and Stripes after they publicly defended its editorial independence and opposed Pentagon censorship. Publisher Max Lederer. Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin. Middle East reporter Lara Korte.
Slavin says he was accused of “insubordination” for declaring that censoring news delivered to service members would cross a red line. Korte says she was fired after stating that she works for Stars… #Trump
