President Donald Trump on Friday terminated Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Brown Jr., the country’s highest-ranking military officer, from his position. Brown’s dismissal comes amid a wave of administration shake-ups as part of the president’s crusade to reshape the […]
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The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data. In response to a lawsuit, the
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Tensions between the Trump administration and the Ukrainian government had been escalating behind the scenes for the past week before they fully erupted into public view Wednesday. Privately, Ukrainian officials were alarmed after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was told his meetings with top
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Two U.S. Navy pilots safely ejected over the Red Sea on Sunday after the F/A-18 fighter jet they were in was shot down by what appeared to be friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said. The F/A-18 was flying off of
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In a surprise announcement, the Defense Department disclosed Thursday that U.S. officials have doubled the number of American troops in Syria to support the fight ISIS, an increase that predates the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this month. The Pentagon press secretary,
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A meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., in a luxury box at the Army-Navy football game last weekend may have delayed Trump’s plans to fire Brown, according
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Two Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to issue a policy directive that could temporarily limit President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to deploy U.S. military troops domestically after he takes office. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., both
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-provided long-range weapons inside Russia for limited strikes, according to two U.S. officials. The easing of longtime restrictions comes as North Korea has deployed thousands of troops to the Kursk region of
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Eight groups that advocate for military personnel and families are calling on the Pentagon to address what they say are unsanitary and dangerous living conditions on U.S. bases worldwide, including mold, bad air, contaminated water, lead paint, and roaches and other
