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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we also had to Google “Who is Pete Hegseth?” Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: A Trump enforcer heads to the Defense Department, the president-elect reportedly asks Putin not to escalate in Ukraine, and the death toll in Sudan’s civil war may be even worse than […]
Washington is deep in the throes of its favorite parlor game—trading gossip on who is set to serve in the second Trump administration. Here’s a look at who is confirmed, rumored, and vying for a top job—and who has turned them down. A word of caution: Two days after the election, almost everything is informed […]