Pete Hegseth delivered a West Point commencement speech centered on God, duty, and sacrifice, while criticizing DEI programs that displaced military readiness and standards.

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chornobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hello once again from the Surge, Slate's roundup of the most relevant characters of the week in the delightful novel called United States Politics in 2025. I'm Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for Jim Newell, who is currently protesting the administration's refusal to exempt bananas from import tariffs, even though they can't be grown at scale domestically, by standing outside the Department of Commerce dressed as a sad banana. This week we had the usual mess of absurd economic chaos and disconcerting announcements from people who are shutting down entire government departments on the basis of things they saw on Facebook. But first, the preliminary public opinion verdict on whether Donald Trump should have unlimited Judge Dredd powers is in … and it's not good news for Mr. Dredd's many fans in the White House.

'Fox & Friends Weekend' co-host Pete Hegseth reacts to the U.S. drone strike that killed civilians instead of ISIS-K members in Afghanistan. Fox News host Pete Hegseth ripped the Biden administration's failed "over-the-horizon" counterterrorism strategy on "The Faulkner Focus" Monday after the Pentagon admitted August's U.S. drone strike targeting ISIS-K members in Afghanistan killed civilians instead. PETE HEGSETH: I'll give a lot of deference to our military in almost every situation, meaning the intentions of that drone operator, the intentions of those attempting to find ISIS bombers based on whatever intelligence we had, those were righteous intentions, they were attempting to keep Americans there safe. And I don't think there was ever an intent to kill civilians. And I don't put that on Joe Biden or General McKenzie or General Milley.