Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The administrative move — which seeks to reduce Kelly’s retirement rank and military pension — is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after

The defense secretary spent Trump’s first year in office wreaking havoc on the U.S. military—and killing innocent people around the world.

Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has shrugged off threats that he will face a court-martial and mocked President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as unserious politicians. The escalating confrontation between Kelly, a former Navy ...