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A wild Japanese macaque has prompted multiple safety alerts from U.S. military bases in Japan, following reports of the animal appearing near installations and housing areas. Most recently, Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, located about 28 miles southwest of Tokyo, posted a community-wide warning after receiving sightings of a roaming macaque just outside the base.

VA Secretary Doug Collins - stop sucking up to trump so much. Your focus should be on the vets... WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced changes that will make it easier for VA-enrolled Veterans to access health care from non-VA providers at the department’s expense. Since 2019, the MISSION Act has enabled VA-enrolled Veterans to access health care from non-VA providers at the department’s expense when it is in their best medical interest. These decisions have been made jointly by Veterans and their referring clinicians but were not considered final until they were reviewed by a second VA doctor.

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Folks, I would not characterize this deployment as "disastrous." As I've mentioned, the Navy is overworked and in my opinion not receiving the needed training because they are deployed so often. Additionally, the crew on most ships need a break and the ships most definitely need a break for some much needed maintenance and repair. Had to get my 2 cents worth for the very hard working Sailors in our Navy that the media does not know about. The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is at last making its way home after an eventful extended deployment that saw the ship participate in combat operations against the Iran-backed Houthis but also lose three aircraft.

President Donald Trump boosted a wild conspiracy theory that accuses the Clinton family of murdering seven people. Trump posted the clip—with the title “THE VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE”—to Truth Social on Saturday. The president offered no commentary of his own on the video. The video attempts to link two of Trump’s most bitter political rivals, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, former White House lawyer Vince Foster, and others.

“F-35, we’re doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade, but we’re also doing an F-55. I’m going to call it an F-55, and that’s going to be a substantial upgrade, but it’s going to be also with two engines because the F-35 had a single engine. I don’t like single engines.” Duhhh, see Spot run! Run Spot, run!

'We Don't Do Kings': Mass Protests Planned to Counter Trump's Birthday Military Parade

A big protest is planned next month to upstage a massive military parade on President Trump's birthday. The group behind the event, Refuse Facism, held rallies against the Trump administration in downtown Los Angeles and cities across the country Saturday.

The U.S. DOGE Service arrived at the Social Security Administration this year determined to slash staff and root out what it claimed was widespread fraud and wasteful spending - a mission Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team has pursued across the government. But as of this week, many of the major changes DOGE pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction. The problems come as the agency struggles to cope with a record surge of hundreds of thousands of retirement claims in recent months.

Bruce Springsteen resumed denouncing Donald Trump from the stage of his Land of Hopes and Dreams Tour Saturday night (May 17) in Manchester, England. The Los Angeles Times reports the Boss didn’t back down from his stance on Trump this weekend, after the U.S. president called Springsteen “highly overrated,” “dumb as a rock” and a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!)” in a post on Truth Social. The rant was Trump’s reaction to the musician calling out the president’s “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration” at his tour opener earlier in the week.

Last fall, Kyle Sweetser was a Republican, but an unhappy one. For the third time in a row, Donald Trump had secured his party’s nomination for president — this time without anyone being able to credibly deny what MAGA actually meant for America. The GOP candidate had already been president once, during which time he floated bleach as an antiviral and rejected the outcome of a free and fair election, urging a mob of his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol and demand that he remain in power despite a majority of Americans asking him to leave.

A top Iranian official pushed back on President Trump Friday, calling his recent remarks about a nuclear deal “confusing and contradictory.” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned from the Middle East earlier Friday that the U.S. gave Iran a formal proposal for a new nuclear agreement, urging Tehran to “move quickly.”

Incompetent On May 7, India launched a calibrated military campaign against Pakistan in response to a brutal terrorist attack that had killed 26 civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir. Islamist gunmen had deliberately targeted Hindu tourists, exemplifying the persistent cross-border terrorism that India has long endured. Yet few anticipated that the decisive external actor to intervene, President Trump, would seek not to de-escalate tensions impartially, but to tilt the scales in favor of the state sponsor of terror.

“Maybe you don’t want it. Look, for the good of the country you don’t have to take it,” Trump said. “You can go to your commanding officer and say, ‘Sir, I’d rather not take that pay. I love my country. I don’t want; I refuse to take it.” The president then asked for a show of hands from those who will refuse to take the pay increase, but none were raised.

What is sad is that there actually are Sailors who clearly follow trump's unethical, illegal and undemocratic acts as if they are part of our democracy... President Donald Trump stirred new controversy when, during his tour of the Middle East, he was accused of using U.S. troops stationed in Qatar as props to boost his false election claims.

Agree - Secretary of the VA Doug Collins is a political hack who keeps trying to score brownie points with trump instead of taking care of our vets WASHINGTON — Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on Thursday Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-05-15/veterans-collins-workforce-lawmakers-17803526.html Source - Stars and Stripes

Three sailors assigned to Recruit Training Command Great Lakes have died over the past month, the Naval Education and Training Command told USNI News.

EPA staff didn’t use a tip line set up by the Trump administration to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility

Family of Navy corpsman fatally shot by Chula Vista Police demands video release

Bree Kuhn is fighting her sentence after being sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband, Collin Turner. Kuhn, then a U.S. Navy chief petty officer, shot and killed Turner, a 33-year-old retired U.S. Marine, after an hours-long argument escalated to violence at the couple's home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, on Sept. 8, 2021.

One trillion! It’s an exclamation-point-inducing, mind-jarringly inconceivable number for most humans. Start counting once every second and you’ll need more than 31,700 years to get there. It’s also the ALL-CAPS amount of money President Trump wants to spend on defense—amid the frenzied downsizing of the rest of the federal government—in fiscal year 2026. “COMING SOON,” Defense Secretary Pete Hedgehog posted on X last month, “the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Springtime in D.C. brings visitors from across the country to take in the sights. The cherry blossoms in bloom, the artifacts of the Smithsonian, and the monuments draw countless sightseers every year. But in May, 2025, five visitors quietly came to the nation’s capital for a different reason – to represent the U.S. Navy Reserve; among them was the Navy Reserve’s 2024 Sailor of the Year (RSOY).

WASHINGTON — Claims processors at the Department of Veterans Affairs were inadequately trained and unprepared for the influx of veterans seeking benefits under the PACT Act Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-05-14/veterans-payments-pact-act-17789102.html Source - Stars and Stripes

Schools across the country are concerned about student mental health, especially since the pandemic. DOD schools employ school psychologists and counselors to help meet students' mental health needs. But these staff said they rarely had time to work with students to prevent crises due to competing responsibilities and other challenges.