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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked a hornet’s nest with his move this week to test troops’ testosterone levels. Hegseth argues the effort, to...
Iranian attacks on at least two military bases in Jordan this week reportedly injured several U.S. service members when their facility was struck, CBS...
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A panel of three federal judges ruled that the Pentagon’s policy requiring journalists in the building to have government escorts will stand,...
The Navy’s top civilian official is brushing off criticisms over an unusually low Blue Angels flyover at Florida’s Pensacola Beach this week,...
President Trump’s return to a U.S. military blockade on Iranian ports this week marked another dead end in his bid to fully reopen the Strait of...
The Pentagon on Wednesday announced it will convene a panel to study the “decisions, coordination, planning, and execution” of the military’s...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone...
The Trump administration for a second year has largely snubbed the Aspen Security Forum, with no senior Defense Department (DOD) officials slated for...
The Pentagon is planning to keep a National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., through Inauguration Day 2029, a guard official confirmed to The Hill...
The Pentagon is planning to keep a National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., through Inauguration Day 2029, a guard official confirmed to The Hill...
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President Trump on Monday said the U.S. could soon attack Pickaxe Mountain in Iran as American forces launched a new round of strikes against the...
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician and staunch supporter of President Trump, on Monday announced his bid to serve as the top...
The ongoing absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from Capitol Hill is throwing another wrench in President Trump’s uphill push for a massive $1.5...
President Trump on Friday claimed he has left instructions to bomb Iran “at levels that they’ve never seen before” should Tehran assassinate...
President Trump on Friday declared the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is over, even as he said talks to find a peace deal will continue. “The Islamic...
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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said late Wednesday Iran will attempt to leverage as much as it can in peace negotiations with the U.S. ahead of...
The senior legal counsel to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine is stepping down nearly a year ahead of schedule, the latest top official to...
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The U.S. Navy has identified the airman lost over the Arabian Sea earlier this month as Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, the service announced Wednesday....
At least three veterans organizations are calling on Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, to drop out of his race following a...
President Trump’s talk of boosting U.S. munitions stockpiles is facing the harsh reality of America’s production capacity. Even if Congress passes...
The Air Force has confirmed a trainee died as a result of a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro...
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Vice President Vance on Wednesday appeared open to the idea that the United States could resume its war against Iran should the ongoing 60-day...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that there was no deal with President Trump to end Moscow’s more than four-year-long war in Ukraine,...
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House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said he believes the Pentagon’s policy chief misled him about a plan to reduce by...
Jacqueline Smith, the ombudsman of outlet Stars and Stripes who was ousted in April after she criticized the Pentagon’s new restrictions on the...
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The number of flu cases at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas continues to rise in the wake of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s banishment of the...
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to churn out hundreds of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense...
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The Trump administration is struggling to convince GOP lawmakers to back President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget in addition to tens of...
U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the military arm that oversees American forces in the Middle East, last week killed a senior Islamic State leader in...
Less than a quarter of Americans believe President Trump's war with Iran was worth its costs, according to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos out Tuesday....
The Senate’s defense authorization bill includes language that would better protect retired service members who speak out against the government in...
President Trump is set to meet with the heads of the biggest U.S. defense firms on Wednesday amid concerns of America’s dwindling stockpile of...
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is set to travel next week to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Trump amid tensions over the U.S. cutting the...
President Trump’s signature on a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz set off a 60-day clock starting Thursday to hone the details of what...
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Mines placed in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war are putting a damper on plans to quickly return shipping traffic to normal under a memorandum...
The U.S. military on Wednesday identified the eight men killed in a B-52 Stratofortress bomber crash earlier this week during a test flight at Edwards...
The U.S. military on Tuesday struck another boat it claimed was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two...
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The U.S. blockade of vessels going to or coming from Iranian ports is still in place “pending execution” of a ceasefire deal between Washington...