The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East.

An appeals court will not allow the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants — a ruling that could propel the issue to the Supreme Court. For decades, under an 1868 constitutional amendment and a statute that preceded it,

The Biden administration saw the $67 billion in military assistance it provided to Kyiv as essential. Trump sees any further aid as leverage.

U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that the U.S. spent $350 billion on assistance for Ukraine. Trump has used the sum to pressure Ukraine into signing a deal that would give the U.S. at least a 50% interest in Ukrainian natural resources through a joint investment fund as payback for its support for Kyiv.

The US has allocated the most of any single country, $119 billion, according to the Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which catalogues aid to the war-torn country through its Ukraine Support Tracker, focusing on government-to-government transfers.

Ukraine’s battlefield transformation shows how fast a military can adapt when it stops trying to predict the future. After less than two years at war, Ukraine ditched a clunky, centrally-planned acquisition system and replaced it with a weapon delivery pipeline driven by real-time operational feedback,

President Trump has been demanding such a pact, but Ukraine has been pushing for new security guarantees or fresh military funding in exchange for its minerals.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Cyber Command to stop any planning aimed at Russia, including offensive cyber operations. — Ukrinform.

Transgender service members will be separated from the U.S. military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday, essentially banning them from joining or serving in the military.