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Yesterday, CBS News pulled a story titled “Inside CECOT” just hours before it was set to air. The report examined the Trump administration’s controversial deportation of more than 250 people — most of them Venezuelan nationals — to CECOT, a sprawling prison in El Salvador where detainees were held under severe conditions. The segment featured interviews with deportees who described brutal treatment and alleged abuse inside the facility.

A leap of faith and hopes of becoming a pilot set one Sailor on a path from enlisted ranks to officer candidacy. For Petty Officer 1st Class Fonanti Sapee, an enlisted outreach coordinator at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the dream of becoming a naval officer began not in a recruiter’s office or at a career fair, but through watching friends succeed. Aboard his previous command, USS Columbus, Sapee, whose rate is Machinist's Mate Nuclear, witnessed fellow Sailors apply for and gain acceptance to the Seaman to Admiral-21 (STA-21) program — the Navy’s commissioning opportunity for active-duty enlisted personnel.

What a misguided commander-in-Thief... He appeared to suggest during his televised address that the bonus was made possible by tariff revenue. However, the money is coming from a congressionally approved housing supplement.

The Army and Navy exceeded the legal level of recruits with the lowest acceptable Armed Forces Qualification Test scores, according to a report from the Pentagon’s Inspector General released this week. The services, which are in the midst of reversing years of stagnant new enlistments, each created preparatory courses that would allow potential recruits with low AFQT scores to spend weeks studying under military teachers, in order to raise their scores and then move to boot camp.

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Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into a burning wreck during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Already wounded from the attack, the 42-year-old sailor crawled alone into several superheated compartments to manually close four massive steam line valves.

The U.S. Navy is pursuing a new class of smaller, more agile combatant ships that the service says will become a “critical component of the Navy’s fleet of the future.”

A striking convergence of events this week should have shaken the Pentagon’s overseers but so far hasn’t. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a $900 billion defense bill by an overwhelming 77–20 margin. A few days earlier, the New York Times devoted its entire 13-page Sunday Opinion section to argue that much of that budget is a colossal waste of money.

Instead, Hegseth and Trump are building a military focused on the Western Hemisphere, purged of dissenters and anyone concerned about the legality of their possibly criminal Caribbean boat strikes or the feasibility of an actual ground offensive against Venezuela. When American national security is governed by insecure and paranoid men, it is the grunts who always end up paying the price.

The unprompted revelation of intimate details did not stop there, however, with Trump going full disclosure on the way his third wife likes to store her underwear.

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If a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned. The harm is even worse when basic factual evidence, such as full videos and orders, are also hidden from the American people.

The Clay County Sheriff's Office said Taylor Lomax, identified as an NAS Jax sailor, was arrested for shooting and killing his roommates Wednesday night. (video)

Active-duty troops and drilling Guard and reserve members will receive a 3.8% pay raise in January.

During his speech on Wednesday, Trump announced that his administration is sending 1.45 million enlisted military members a $1,776 check that they're calling a "Warrior Dividend" before Christmas. Trump claimed that the dividend was funded by revenue from his tariffs. However, Politico later reported that the funds were moved from a federal account that helps servicemembers find affordable housing.

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FLORIDA KEYS, Fla. — An off-duty ICE agent was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the Florida Keys after being accused of driving under the influence and child endangerment.

The Trump administration has not hired the best people to work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One of them was arrested for sex trafficking as part of a three-day sting earlier this month.

Yes, the same iCe that is arresting Navy family members... An ICE leader has been locked up in the same jail where he’d sent ICE prisoners after he allegedly strangled his girlfriend earlier this month.

I truly believe this is not going to work too well... The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a massive reorganization of its health care management system, reducing the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realigning policy offices to promote consistency.

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WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final passage to an annual military policy bill Wednesday that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide lawmakers with video of strikes on alleged drug boats in international water near Venezuela