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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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![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)")
