Guardsmen Pulled off LA Mission as State Warns Troops Are 'Stretched Thin' Amid Wildfire Season U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that approximately 150 members of the California National Guard were released from...
Pentagon Plans $5 Billion for Border, Bets on Trump Bill to Fill Funding Gaps The budget plans for fiscal 2026 were released as President Donald Trump is pursuing mass deportations across the country and...
As Military Helps More with Law Enforcement, Senate Democrat's Proposal Seeks Guardrails The U.S. military would be able to help civilian law enforcement only in narrow circumstances under a bill being introduced...
US Carrier Strike Group Embarks on Scheduled Deployment Amid Middle East Tensions The United States' most advanced aircraft carrier left its base in Virginia Tuesday for a regularly scheduled deployment that...
Judge Asks if Troops in Los Angeles Are Violating Posse Comitatus Act U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer put off any additional rulings and instead asked for briefings by noon Monday on whether...
A Veteran Was Detained by Marines. It Highlights Concerns over the Military's Growing Ties to Law Enforcement. Marcos Leao's detention by Marines marks what many legal, defense and policy experts say is an unprecedented violation of the...
How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze For transportation, detention, and potentially apprehension of migrants, the Trump administration is looking to the military.
Appeals Court Seems Likely to Keep Trump In Control of National Guard Deployed in Los Angeles The three-judge panel is set to hear oral arguments via video, and protests outside the downtown San Francisco court are...
Military Moves Ships, Aircraft to Middle East as Senator Seeks to Stop US Action Against Iran The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region...
Marines Temporarily Detain Man While Guarding LA Federal Building Marcos Leao, a former Army combat engineer, said he was rushing to get to a Veterans Affairs appointment when he stepped past...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![Protester standing in front of a California National Guard](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-06/ApNewsroom_US_Protests_Los_Angeles_23881.jpg?itok=RqZ9PHdT "A protester waves a folding fan while standing in front of a California National Guard member outside the North Los Angeles Federal Building during a "No Kings" protest in response to a series of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, in Los Angeles, Calif., Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)")
