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Omar Havana/Getty Images Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave an impassioned defense of women in combat on Tuesday following Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, arguing that the United States “should not have women in combat roles.” “I don’t know the potential nominee, so I can’t comment on and won’t […]
Charles O’Rear (BOSTON, Mass.) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who prosecutors said “perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history,” was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Indira Talwani issued the […]
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Pentagon on Tuesday granted honorable discharges to more than 800 veterans who were separated from the U.S. military because of their sexual orientation during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which was in effect from February 1994 to September 2011. More than 13,000 service members were […]
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is aware of reports Wednesday that an American service member was recently detained in Venezuela, a U.S. official told ABC News. The Department of Defense is “working closely” with the State Department on the matter, according to a statement from the official. “We are aware of […]
Stefani Reynolds/ Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal offenses for leaking sensitive information online, will now face a military court-martial, according to the U.S. Air Force. No trial date has been set yet for the military legal proceedings, which will take place at Hanscom Air Force […]
Palestinians are climbing onto trucks to grab aid that is being delivered into Gaza through a U.S.-built pier, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Inspectors General at the Pentagon and […]
Getty Images – STOCK (RUSSIA) — The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday’s arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba as U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships “actively monitored” the Russian ships as they made their way to a port of call in Havana. At the on-camera Pentagon press briefing, spokesperson Sabrina Singh downplayed the […]
Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder holds a press conference at the Pentagon on Oct. 31, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The United States has assessed that Russia launched what is likely a counter space weapon last week that’s now in the same orbit as a U.S. government […]
In this 2011 file photo, female U.S. Marines are shown marching. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Soon to be released Pentagon figures will show a significant almost 19% reduction in the number of service members who say they have experienced some type of unwanted sexual contact over the previous survey conducted two years ago, according […]
Getty Images – STOCK (SYRIA) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that Israel was behind the airstrike in Damascus, Syria, that killed seven people, including a top Iranian commander, even though Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack. Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary, told reporters Tuesday that Israel was behind the airstrike in […]
