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The Pentagon seal in the Pentagon Briefing Room in Arlington, Virginia., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Trump signed a number of new executive orders Monday night aimed at the U.S. military. The orders have been described in some coverage […]

Agrippa HullContinental Army veteran Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War Sentiment against the institution of slavery reached a peak in the year leading up to the Revolutionary War. Such vocal criticisms of slavery would not be heard again in the United States until the abolitionists of the Antebellum Era. Thousands of Native Americans […]
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Reuters President Trump vowed on the campaign trail to cut down on equal opportunity programmes and bring about major changes to the US military US President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders focused on reshaping the US military. One order signed late […]

Trump to sign executive order banning transgender troops – report Donald Trump is expected to sign three executive orders on Monday that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces, CNN reports. The orders will also include gutting the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and […]
Colombia has denied entry to two U.S. military deportation flights, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. The flights, carried out on U.S. military C-17 aircraft, were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each and had departed from California, the defense official told NBC News. Initially cleared for landing, the […]
The US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine after newly sworn in US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader did not clarify whether humanitarian aid had been paused. Ukraine relies on the US for 40% […]
US arms export growth was driven by countries seeking to replenish weapons stocks that were donated to Ukraine. The sale of United States military equipment to foreign governments in 2024 surged 29 percent to a record $318.7bn, the US State Department said, a figure that includes the sale of jet fighters worth $18.8bn to Israel […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New York this weekend. Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, died on Jan. 8 at 104 years old, her family said. Nicknamed “Lefty,” she was born on Sept. 29, 1920, in Goose Creek, but would later move […]

Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” in the United States were arrested Thursday and hundreds of others were flown out of the country on military aircraft as President Trump’s promised mass deportation operation got underway, the White House said. In a post on X Thursday night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The Trump Administration arrested […]