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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Respiratory illnesses like respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and flu can spread quickly, especially during the fall and winter months. However, there’s an easy way to reduce your risk of serious illness—get vaccinated. TRICARE covers both RSV and flu immunizations for eligible beneficiaries, helping protect you and your family this season. “Each year, RSV and flu hospitalize thousands of people—especially children, older adults, and those with underlying health conditions,” said Dr. Stacy Usher, lead nurse, TRICARE Health Plan, at the Defense Health Agency. “Immunization is the most effective way to prevent illness and protect those around you.”

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ORT WORTH, Texas — An arrest has been made in the wrong-way crash that killed 38-year-old Brytni Elliott and injured members of her family in September. On Sept. 14, less than five minutes from their home on Boat Club Road, Fort Worth police said a wrong-way driver slammed into the Elliott family’s vehicle. Inside were Brytni, her husband, 41-year-old Spencer Elliott — who remains hospitalized with multiple injuries — and their 12-year-old daughter, Allie, who suffered a broken arm. Brytni was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The Trump Administration has not provided a credible rationale for its 21 unauthorized military strikes on vessels in the Western Hemisphere, which have resulted in the extrajudicial killings of dozens of individuals. Nor has this administration explained why it has deployed an invasion-level force of roughly 15,000 troops, a carrier strike group, and military aircraft for a mission it claims is about counter-narcotics. This posture is wildly disproportionate to the stated objective and far more reminiscent of preparations for war.

BRITISH sailors on US warships are braced for war with Venezuela – but they have orders not to take part. The highly trained Royal Navy sailors are serving as exchange officers on a US carrier strike group.

American, Japanese and Philippine vessels, including the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, conducted the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity from Friday to Saturday to demonstrate "growing regional unity and cooperation," the Philippine military said. "We solemnly urge the Philippine side to immediately stop provoking incidents and escalating tensions," said the Southern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army, which oversees Chinese military operations in the South China Sea, on Sunday.

“The use of troops, bases, and ceremonies in partisan settings has blurred the line between military service and political messaging, eroding morale and public trust in the military’s apolitical character,” the report read. Released on Monday, the report was authored by retired Navy Admiral Steve Abbot, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, former Army Secretary Louis Caldera, retired Army General George Casey, former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and former Navy secretary Sean O’Keefe.

In the vacillating contours of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, little should surprise. And outlying moments of apparent success against Iran’s nuclear program (even if short-lived), are uneasily partnered with moments of fleeting fancy, like seizing Greenland (remember that?) But the looming possibility of military action against Venezuela – across a wide spectrum of violent options – drags the White House into realms of foreign involvement it has always said it loathed. And it puts it squarely in opposition to the lessons of the past two decades of US Republican military endeavors, and plenty of decades of regional experience before that.

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The Pentagon has been turned “upside down” under an increasingly paranoid Pete Hegseth, defense sources have said. Insiders described the secretary of defense’s tenure as chaotic, amateurish and dysfunctional, warning that Congress and some in the White House are now losing trust.

The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, will arrive in the northern Caribbean on Sunday as tensions with Venezuela grow, according to a U.S. military official. The carrier will join 15,000 service members, including 2,000 Marines aboard an amphibious assault ship.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine returned to the White House on Friday for a second consecutive day of deliberations centered on potential military action in Venezuela, as U.S. forces in the region prepared for possible attack orders, according to people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. military has denied reports that it plans to build a $500-million base near Gaza, emphasizing that no American troops will be deployed to the territory as part of ongoing efforts to support a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Over 22 million people in Southern California are under a flood watch as a West Coast storm could slam burn scar areas, bringing potential mudslides, debris flows and excessive rainfall. Evacuation warnings are now in place through Friday evening for the following burn scar areas: Canyon, Bethany, Eaton, Palisades, Hurst, Kenneth, Sunset, Lidia, Franklin and Bridge, according to Los Angeles County officials. "Anyone in these areas should be ready to leave at a moment's notice," county officials said.