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Two U.S. Army soldiers in Washington State and a former soldier were arrested on Thursday on bribery and theft charges, accused in separate federal indictments of conspiring to obtain and sell sensitive government information, the Justice Department said. The defendants were identified as First Lt. Li Tian, a health services administrator; Sgt. Jian Zhao, a…
A South Korean village near the North Korean border was mistakenly bombed on Thursday by two fighter jets from the South’s own air force, leaving 15 people injured and damaging homes and a church. The jets were taking part in a joint exercise with the United States military when each of them dropped four bombs,…
The Trump administration faced the first direct legal challenge to its policy of sending migrants to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for continued immigration detention with a lawsuit filed on Saturday by a coalition of human rights and immigrant advocacy organizations. “Plaintiffs seek this court’s intervention to put a stop to these…
At Lakenheath High School, a school for children of U.S. military members in Britain, a club for gay students and their allies can no longer meet. A Women in STEM group has also been placed on hold. At Ramstein High School in Germany, groups for students of Hispanic and Asian heritage as well as the…
By late last week, President Trump had decided to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replace him with one of two very different candidates, according to two administration officials. One was Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, a hard-charging Army four-star general who oversees U.S. military operations in…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to fire the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force represents an opening salvo in his push to remake the military into a force that is more aggressive on the battlefield and potentially less hindered by the laws of armed conflict. Mr. Hegseth, in the Pentagon and during…
The Trump administration on Thursday transferred all of the Venezuelan migrants it had brought to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, suddenly emptying a detention operation that it had just as abruptly started this month. Two passenger planes operated by Global X, a charter aircraft company, flew to the naval base on Thursday…
The Trump administration has moved more than 175 men from an immigration holding site in Texas to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay. All have been described as Venezuelans who have been issued final deportation orders. But it is not known why these men in particular were sent there. Waves of migrants, including thousands…
Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam instead. The small reshuffling marked a major milestone: This was the first time the Marines cut their head count on Okinawa as part of a deal between…
The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, according to U.S. officials. The covert drone program, which has not been previously disclosed, began under the Biden administration, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the…
