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  • Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized pause on weapon shipments to Ukraine, sources say

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government.

    President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he was not responsible for the move. Asked on Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting whether he approved of the pause in shipments, Trump demurred, saying only that the US would continue to send defensive weapons to Ukraine. Pressed again on who authorized the pause, Trump replied, «I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?»

    The episode underscores the often-haphazard policy-making process inside the Trump administration, particularly under Hegseth at the Defense Department. The pause was the second time this year that Hegseth had decided to halt the flow of US weapons to Ukraine, catching senior national security officials off guard, sources said.

    It first happened in February and the decision was quickly reversed, three of the sources said — mirroring what happened on Monday night, when Trump announced that the weapons shipments would continue despite Hegseth signing off on the pause.

    The US special envoy to Ukraine, Ret. Gen. Keith Kellogg, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also Trump’s national security adviser, трипскан were also not told about the pause beforehand and learned about it from press reports, according to a senior administration official and two of the sources.

    Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told CNN in a statement that said in part, «Secretary Hegseth provided a framework for the President to evaluate military aid shipments and assess existing stockpiles. This effort was coordinated across government.»

  • tripscan

    After taking off from Brisbane just after dawn, our tiny propeller plane skims miles of Queensland coastline before heading north out over the crystal-clear waters of the Coral Sea –— revealing the beauty of this vast reef system beneath its surface.

    Our destination is Lady Elliot Island, a remote coral cay perched on top of the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.

    Pilot Peter Gash is the island’s leaseholder, and his family has been operating tours to the island for nearly 20 years.

    «We made it our life’s work,» Gash said. «My wife and I married, I went and learned to fly airplanes so I could bring people here.»

    Gash negotiates his small aircraft through bumpy crosswinds to land safely on the short, grass-covered runway.

    Decades ago, the island was a barren landscape devoid of vegetation following years of mining for nutrient-rich seabird waste — known as guano — in the late 1800s.

    The Gash family set about bringing this island back to life, planting around 10,000 native species of trees to create a man-made forest and nature reserve, and using solar power, batteries and a water desalination system to support a small eco-tourism resort.

    The island is now home to up to 200,000 sea birds, which have helped to regenerate the coral reef fringing the island.

    «If we can recover this small place, this little circle, we can recover this big place — this whole planet,» Gash said. «That’s what really drives me, is to try and encourage people to know that it’s not hopeless, it can be done.»

    Gash takes CNN on a snorkel tour, diving down to explore the underwater rainforest in his backyard. The vibrant coral colonies burst with color and teem with hundreds of species including manta rays, reef sharks, clown fish and turtles.

    When the island’s greatest enthusiast resurfaces to draw a breath, even he can’t hide his shock at the extent of the coral bleaching.

    «It’s worse than I thought it would be,» Gash said, as he treaded water on the surface. «I just pray the corals will come back next year.»

    ‘Silent as a graveyard’

    Beyond the Great Barrier Reef, the massive marine heatwave sweeping the globe has already impacted some of the world’s most famous coral reefs — including those in the Red Sea, Indonesia and the Seychelles.

    Last year, the soaring ocean temperatures also caused widespread destruction of corals in the Caribbean and tripskan Florida — and US experts are predicting further damage there this coming summer.

    «I am becoming increasingly concerned about the 2024 summer for the wider Caribbean and Florida,» said Derek Manzello, the coordinator for NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program.

    «It won’t take much additional seasonal warming to push temperatures past the bleaching threshold.»

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