Defense
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President Donald Trump says he has fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper
November 09, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Marines Corps' number two officer has tested positive for COVID-19.
October 08, 2020 -
The two blue beams known as the Tribute in Light are rising from lower Manhattan on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
September 11, 2020 -
A congressional watchdog agency has found that the top two Trump administration officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were improperly appointed to the posts under federal law
August 14, 2020 -
Democrats are condemning President Donald Trump’s appointment of a staunch loyalist to a senior Pentagon post
August 03, 2020 -
Only one of their bodies was found, despite an intense days-long search involving helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer.
August 03, 2020 -
The Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, using a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag.
July 17, 2020 -
Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money from 10 bank accounts belonging to a married couple of U.S. Army veterans in Texas
July 16, 2020 -
Twenty-one people have suffered minor injuries in an explosion and fire Sunday on board a ship at Naval Base San Diego.
July 13, 2020 -
The Army will take a few limited steps to counter racial divisiveness among its force
June 25, 2020 -
The nation's top military officer is adding to the already extraordinary tension between the Pentagon and President Donald Trump
June 11, 2020 -
Yet another former military leader, retired Marine Corps four-star general John Allen, is criticizing President Donald Trump's response to the protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
June 04, 2020 -
In an abrupt reversal, Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday overturned an earlier Pentagon decision to send a couple hundred active-duty soldiers home from the Washington, D.C.
June 03, 2020 -
The Pentagon's No. 2 inspector general has resigned
May 26, 2020 -
The FBI says a shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related.”
May 21, 2020