Trump also touted his push for an annual $1 trillion military budget during a West Point commencement address.
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It’s Memorial Day weekend, and I’m hung over in the hull gunner of an M36 Jackson tank. This green, mean fighting machine once killed its fair share of Nazis. Decades later, its engine still roars with a fresh ferocity, though its cannon is a couple of firing pins short of battle-ready. That’s fine by me. […]
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Inside the Curious, and Dangerous, World of US Military Museums Read Post »
You may assume that derision of drag shows would not come up in a commencement address at the prestigious US Military Academy known as West Point—but you would be wrong. In a nearly hour-long speech by President Donald Trump on Saturday at the academy in New York—his second time speaking there—Trump also trashed diversity, equity, […]
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Trump Unleashes Bizarre Commencement Speech at West Point Read Post »
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than half a century, US intelligence agencies and the armed forces have analyzed threats to national security from a range of environmental angles, including dependence on fossil fuels, competition for scarce water resources and […]
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Congress mandates expanded care for veterans, but tests of treatments for cancer, opioid addiction, and more are at risk.
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Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump and DOGE Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care Read Post »
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. There were no weapons of mass destruction. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with young men and women who bought the like, […]
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“Going to Fallujah Was the Most Horrific Experience of Our Lives” Read Post »
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. It started in 2017 with a group of friends and colleagues—the first 40 clients whom US Army veterans Scott Greenblatt and Bill Taylor signed up to help. They had come home from […]
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In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, both related to cancer for which he had already received care through the VA—were denied. Puhl, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, holds the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s “Department of […]
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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE. Read Post »
David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington. The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of […]
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Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope. Read Post »
President Trump’s absence at the dignified transfer of four US servicemen who died during a training exercise in Lithuania is being noticed. While thousands gathered in Lithuania—including the Lithuanian president—to send the soldiers off, our commander in chief was busy (as he has been for over a quarter of his second presidency) playing in his […]
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While Fallen Soldiers Returned Home, Trump Hit the Golf Course Read Post »
The court filing signals a shift from targeting openly trans troops to potentially investigating those who are closeted.
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Military Plans to Investigate GIs for “Symptoms” of Being Trans Read Post »
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