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SINGAPORE: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth takes the stage on Saturday morning (May 30) at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, delivering one of the most closely watched speeches at Asia’s premier security summit.

Speech is expected to give first indication of American policy direction in the Indo-Pacific since the Trump-Xi summit two weeks ago This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below.

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Take, for instance, a story Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost told on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last night, revealing that he’d actually nixed a gag about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the grounds that it’d be too ridiculous for a human being to do,

The latest “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) cold open featured actors playing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh drinking at a bar in the nation’s capital.

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