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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is renewing plans to shrink the Department of Defense’s (DoD) civilian workforce, including reopening of the agency’s early retirement program.

Sites are located in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Alaska WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the complete list of additional medical facilities at which it will deploy the Federal Electronic Health Record system in 2026 under its accelerated deployment schedule. The nine additional VA medical centers and their associated clinics that will go live with the EHR in 2026 are as follows:

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Didn't that idiot pull out of the last Nuclear treaty?! Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that Iran won't engage in direct talks with the U.S. at the moment, but stressed the Iranian letter of response doesn't rule out indirect negotiation through the Omani mediators.

As of March 27, 2025, a total of 483 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 20 jurisdictions: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington. You can follow the link and scroll down to the U.S. map or view other information.

And just imagine: Trump created this whole mess... U.S. President Donald Trump hinted he could use military force to take over Greenland — in the latest sign of Washington's fixation with the autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent,” Trump told NBC.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser, Hegseth’s office confirmed.

The Trump administration’s major military mission at the southern border focused on reducing immigration and drug flows has already cost taxpayers more than $300 million, according to sources briefed on data from the Defense Department comptroller — even as the administration has vowed to slash the size of government and cut 8 percent from the department’s budget. In just the first month, the Pentagon spent roughly $250 million dollars, a source briefed on the cost and two other people familiar with the matter told CNN, including deportation flights on US military aircraft, the deployment of thousands of additional troops and the expansion of detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

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The Danish foreign minister on Saturday scolded the Trump administration for its “tone” in criticizing Denmark and Greenland, saying his country is already investing more into Arctic security and remains open to more cooperation with the U.S.

Mary Trump, the estranged niece and a vocal critic of Donald Trump, accused the president of having "contempt" for military service members, both current and former, in a Friday blog post

“However, after examining the migrant relocation activities at Guantanamo Bay, we are outraged by the scale and wastefulness of the Trump Administration’s misuse of our military. It is obvious that Guantanamo Bay is a likely illegal and certainly illogical location to detain immigrants. Its use is seemingly designed to undermine due process and evade legal scrutiny. “The staggering financial cost to fly these immigrants out of the United States and detain them at Guantanamo Bay—a mission worth tens of millions of dollars a month—is an insult to American taxpayers. President Trump could implement his immigration policies for a fraction of the cost by using existing ICE facilities in the U.S., but he is obsessed with the image of using Guantanamo, no matter the cost.

A former Navy detective sentenced earlier this year for using excessive force on a detained sailor now faces another charge – attempting to produce child pornography. Jonathan Christopher Laroche, 41, of Spring Valley, is accused in a complaint filed in federal court of describing sexually abusing a child and recording the abuse in a series of online messages.

Trump administration officials, including both Waltz and Ratcliffe, have repeatedly insisted that no classified information was shared in the text. Ratcliffe, in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, specifically referenced his text about “starting points.” But current and former officials have disagreed vehemently with that assessment: The kinds of information in not just Hegseth’s texts, but Ratcliffe’s and Waltz’s, included very clear references to sources and methods. Even if it wasn’t an explicit or technical description, these people say, it is information that the US government would typically withhold because it might allow an adversary to make an educated interference about US sources and methods.

So it did compromise a human source - provided by Israel Israeli officials are furious over the Signal chat leak involving senior Trump administration officials because it included sensitive intelligence Israel provided to the U.S. from a human intelligence source in Yemen, CBS News has learned.

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ABC News transportation reporter Sam Sweeney details the results of an FAA investigation over false collision alerts at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C.

Some military spouses who work in the federal government were notified by their respective agencies this week their remote work exceptions were being rescinded, despite them being granted just days or weeks earlier, several military spouses told CNN. The guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s Human Resources department, that would have forced them to return to the office was changed Thursday after a CNN inquiry into the matter. Military spouses now expect orders from their agencies will ultimately reflect change again, after weeks of whiplash that left military spouses in the federal workforce deeply worried about their jobs.

Judge Benjamin Settle became the second federal judge to block the policy. If allowed to go into effect, the Trump administration's new policy on transgender soldiers would be a "de facto blanket prohibition" that seeks "to eradicate transgender service," a federal judge wrote Thursday in issuing a preliminary injunction against the policy. In a 65-page opinion issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle became the second federal judge to block the policy, which he described as discriminatory and disconnected from the goals of "military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any of the other touchstone phrases long used to exclude various groups from service."

CFL/ACFLs, CSV File Update: Due to recent PRIMS development, the use of the CSV file has slightly changed. When uploading CSV file(s) for PFA Cycle 2025, CFLs must now separate the CSV file(s) between with medical waiver data and without medical waiver data. For clarity, you cannot upload a single CSV file with mixed data. CFLs will need to upload two different CSV files. Additionally, PFA data which needs to be uploaded for previous PFA Cycles (2024 or earlier), can be submitted to askmncc.fct@navy.mil utilizing the CSV file(s) guidance above (separated by medical waiver and without medical waiver data). CFLs are reminded that all CSV files must be submitted along with the Letter of Correction (LOC) signed by the CO/OIC. It is very important to follow the CSV file directions exactly as indicated to avoid any upload failures. Updated/current guidance can be found under the PRIMS Training link, then CSV File Directions.

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The White House continues to largely dismiss a highly sensitive discussion by leading national security officials on the open-source encrypted Signal messaging app that leaked to a reporter. At a White House briefing Wednesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the media "continues to be focused on a sensationalized story from the failing Atlantic magazine that is falling apart by the hour." But the leak of operational details lands a little differently with military veterans and especially with active-duty troops, who can be discharged and prosecuted for much lower-level leaks. Security breaches like what happened in the Signal group chat are called "spillage" by the military.