Trump’s Firing of Gen. Charles Q. Brown May Have Roots in George Floyd Protests
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Trump’s Firing of Gen. Charles Q. Brown May Have Roots in George Floyd Protests

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For the second time, the killing of George Floyd by a police officer has brought about a breakage between President Trump and the American military’s most senior leader. In abruptly firing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

Hegseth Fires Military’s Top JAG Lawyers in Pursuit of ‘Warrior Ethos’
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Hegseth Fires Military’s Top JAG Lawyers in Pursuit of ‘Warrior Ethos’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to fire the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force represents an opening salvo in his push to remake the military into a force that is more aggressive on the battlefield and potentially less hindered by…

Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer
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Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of chief of naval operations, and would be looking for her replacement. The announcement came in a statement…

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon
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Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer on Friday after weeks of turmoil at the Pentagon, injecting politics into selecting the nation’s top military leader. Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second…

Dan Caine, Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick, Had Unusual Path to Top Ranks
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Dan Caine, Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick, Had Unusual Path to Top Ranks

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In President Trump’s telling, Dan Caine, the retired Air Force lieutenant general whom he wants to be his next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made an impression on him when the two men first met in 2018. The general told the…

Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo
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Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration on Thursday transferred all of the Venezuelan migrants it had brought to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, suddenly emptying a detention operation that it had just as abruptly started this month. Two passenger planes operated by Global…

Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It
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Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In his first term, President Trump episodically threatened to pull out of NATO, removing the United States as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern times. In his second term, he is trying a different approach: hollowing it out from…

S.S. United States, Historic 20th Century Ocean Liner, Sets Out for Final Voyage
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S.S. United States, Historic 20th Century Ocean Liner, Sets Out for Final Voyage

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The ocean liner that ferried four presidents across the Atlantic Ocean, hosted Duke Ellington and Sylvia Plath, and captured the world’s imagination in the mid-20th century has begun its final voyage. Leaving Philadelphia, where it has been rusting for decades, the ship, the…

C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
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C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, according to U.S. officials. The covert drone program, which has not been previously disclosed, began under…

Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.
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Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shocked the audience at the annual security conference in Munich in 2007 by demanding the rollback of domineering American influence and a new balance of power in Europe more suitable to Moscow. He didn’t get what he…