The process within the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines is structured to ensure the most qualified officers get promoted. Hegseth’s decision to intervene in the process has raised concerns among some officials within those military branches and the White House, the nine U.S. officials familiar with the situation said. “There is … Read more

A former US air force master sergeant who nicknamed himself “Al Capone” has pleaded guilty to defrauding the military branch out of $37m by inflating the cost of IT contracts – and giving some of the extra money to an individual he called “Godfather”. Alan Hayward James, from Texas, ran a nine-year scam, beginning in April 2016, … Read more

Adam Bies, 46, a Mercer County, Pennsylvania resident, is in big boy trouble for threatening to murder FBI agents last week after the agency executed a search warrant of Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. Unsurprisingly, Bies has an account on the far-right-wing site Gab. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bies made various threats, saying in one, … Read more

Iran on Friday downed a US UH-60 Black Hawk chopper hours after reports surfaced that the Iranian forces shot down an F-15E jet. The chopper was targeted near the Iranian border. As per reports, Black Hawk chopper was on a rescue mission to save fighter jet pilot after the stealth aircraft was targeted by Iran. Multiple Iranian state news … Read more

PARIS (AP) — A complaint filed Thursday in France seeks a war crimes investigation into an Israeli strike on a Beirut apartment building in November 2024 said to have killed seven civilians including the parents of a French-Lebanese artist, a human rights group said. The artist, Ali Cherri, and the International Federation for Human Rights, or FIDH, … Read more

U.S. Army Chief ​of Staff Randy George was fired on Thursday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, three U.S. defense officials told Reuters, in ‌the latest purge among the Pentagon’s most senior ranks. Even as Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has moved quickly to reshape the department, firing a general during wartime is nearly without … Read more

Diego, a Hood Island giant tortoise, is a symbol of hope for conservationists. Believed to have hatched on Española Island in the Galápagos, Diego was taken from his native habitat as a young adult and shipped to the United States. He spent years on exhibit in American zoos, including the San Diego Zoo, where his … Read more

The founder and former pastor of one of the US’s largest megachurches has been released from an Oklahoma jail six months after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s. Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as a White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in … Read more

Crypto markets slumped on Thursday as a fresh wave of risk-off sentiment swept across global markets following President Donald Trump’s pledge to continue military strikes against Iran. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $66,900, down 1.7% over the past 24 hours. ETH slipped 4% to $2,050, and SOL plunged 6% to $79 in the wake … Read more

TikTok has removed an account belonging to an ultranationalist, pro-settlement Israeli influencer for breaching hate speech and bullying rules after the Guardian flagged videos showing him harassing activists in the occupied West Bank. The Guardian has reviewed dozens of videos posted by various social media figures that have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram documenting the harassment of … Read more