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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 U.S. has carried out what it called “large-scale strikes” against ISIS in Syria, U.S. Central Command announced Saturday afternoon.

WASHINGTON--The Defense Credit Union Council has sent a letter to President Donald Trump warning that a proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates could backfire on the very consumers it is intended to help, particularly younger servicemembers, junior enlisted personnel, and lower-income military families who lack prime credit profiles.

Denmark deployed soldiers to both Iraq and Afghanistan when America launched the Global War on Terrorism. Fifty of their soldiers never came home.

The annual suicide report, which the Department of Defense typically publishes each fall, provides suicide statistics from the previous calendar year that inform Congress, researchers, and senior leaders across the services on efforts to combat military suicide, a persistent problem. The defense department is also delayed in releasing its quarterly suicide data for 2025, with the third-quarter figures still unpublished, months later than usual.

Military facilities in Puerto Rico are being revived following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan's leader, leaving residents wondering whether it's short-lived and what will come next.

Hundreds of anti-ICE protests are scheduled nationwide for Jan. 10 following the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis

A two-year-old girl in Georgia has been left paralyzed after suffering a rare condition brought on after she contracted the flu, according to her parents. Sara Lopez, 2, fell victim to transverse myelitis, a disorder the Mayo Clinic describes as being triggered by influenza and other ailments that target body tissue. According to the clinic, transverse myelitis interrupts the messages sent from the spinal cord to the rest of the body. This can result in pain, muscle loss, and, as happened to Sara, paralysis.

Navy Safety Command publishes a report on aviation, ashore and afloat mishaps at the end of each fiscal year that includes off duty and crash deaths, but does not report on deaths from overdoses, suicides or illnesses. The report only contains Class “A” mishaps, which means there were aircraft lost, damage of at least $2,500,000, a fatality or a permanent disability.

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U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. The announcement was made Friday by the U.S. military. The Trump administration has been targeting sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela. The pre-dawn action was carried out by U.S. Marines and Navy, taking part in the monthslong buildup of forces in the Caribbean, according to U.S. Southern Command, which declared “there is no safe haven for criminals” as it announced the seizure of the vessel called the Olina.

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The Senate on Thursday voted 52-47 to block President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela. The move came less than a week after Trump authorized a strike that captured the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

REIDSVILLE, N.C. — Ten years after the fatal shooting of Darnell Long, Reidsville police are renewing calls for information in a homicide that remains unsolved.

No matter the recommendation, military law experts argue Hegseth will not be able to change Kelly’s retirement grade under the law.

This move comes in addition to the leasing, since September, of the Ceiba and Aguadilla airports

Do you think Putin will retaliate? Russia’s transport ministry said Wednesday: “No state has the right to use force against vessels duly registered in the jurisdictions of other states.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) raised concerns about what comes next. “I think there are a lot of questions about whether this seizure may raise the prospect of hostilities beyond what’s happened already,” he told reporters.

Who is Going to Pay for This? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing "troubled and dangerous times." Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him out of the country to face drug trafficking charges in the United States. U.S. forces continue to mass in the Caribbean Sea.

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Yet there is currently a split forming, as some prominent Republican lawmakers are publicly disagreeing with Trump regarding his renewed annexation threats against Greenland in the wake of the Venezuela intervention.

he Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military "effectiveness" of having several thousand female soldiers and Marines in infantry, armor and artillery, according to a memo obtained by NPR.

Recent comments by the Defense Secretary have faith leaders, atheists, and civil libertarians alike fearing that he will end the military's long support for religious pluralism by pushing his brand of Christian nationalism on the Chaplain Corps. 'Hegseth is overstepping his boundaries, trying to become the denominational policeman for members of the military,' says Reverend Justin Cohen, a Baptist chaplain for veterans in Pennsylvania.

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The problem here is that both trump and putin are crazy... The United States launched an operation Wednesday to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic, two U.S. officials told NBC News, following a dramatic weekslong chase on the high seas. The ship has been secured, according to one of the U.S. officials, and the Department of Homeland Security is leading the operation with the support from the U.S. military.