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Jour­na­lists are being pla­ced on admi­nis­tra­ti­ve lea­ve and grants are being ter­mi­na­ted at other out­lets.

It is the lar­gest for­eign mili­ta­ry action taken to date by the Trump admi­nis­tra­ti­on.

In try­ing to get Rus­sia to the nego­tia­ting table, the pre­si­dent con­ti­nues to give its lea­der a degree of lati­tu­de and defe­rence he denied Zel­en­skyy.

The Rus­si­an lea­der stop­ped short of out­right rejec­ting the peace pro­po­sal but threw major obs­ta­cles in the plan Wed­nes­day.

NATO Secre­ta­ry-Gene­ral Mark Rut­te will try to pro­ve to Donald Trump in their Thurs­day mee­ting that he — and the near­ly eight-deca­de part­ner­ship — still mat­ter.

Dani­el Davis has descri­bed U.S. sup­port for war in Gaza as a “stain” on the nati­on.

The cohe­si­ve mes­sa­ging from Trump’s camp comes after weeks of uncer­tain­ty on the U.S.’s posi­ti­on in the war.

The mass docu­ment des­truc­tion order marks the latest step to dis­mant­le the agen­cy.

The sel­ec­tion comes a month after Trump fired the pre­vious boards of seve­ral mili­ta­ry aca­de­mies.

Ukrai­ne is alre­a­dy “shoo­ting half-blind” one ana­lyst says, as Kyiv strug­gles to fend off Rus­sia wit­hout U.S. intel.

The pur­ge could dele­te as many as 100,000 images or posts in total.

The mee­ting would mark a signi­fi­cant diplo­ma­tic reen­ga­ge­ment after last week’s Oval Office blo­wup.

Depu­ty Pen­ta­gon Press Secre­ta­ry King­s­ley Wil­son com­pared the mur­ders of Israe­li babies during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to abor­ti­on.

Trump, who has pre­vious­ly come under scru­ti­ny for dis­pa­ra­ging comm­ents about veterans, has over­seen the firing of thou­sands of for­mer ser­vice mem­bers in recent weeks.

Sena­te Armed Ser­vices Chair Roger Wicker war­ned the U.S. “can­not sim­ply pivot” away from Euro­pe.

“This is evil,” the tech bil­lionaire said, moun­ting a fresh attack on the Ukrai­ni­an lea­der.

The appearance of the USS Carl Vin­son was meant to dis­play Ame­ri­can sup­port for South Korea.

This deploy­ment is set to bring the total num­ber of tro­ops at the bor­der to 9,000.

Agen­ci­es and depart­ments deal­ing with natio­nal secu­ri­ty had told employees to not direct­ly respond to Musk’s first request.

The for­mer con­gres­sio­nal can­di­da­te has cal­led for a mili­ta­ry of alpha males and fema­les wil­ling “to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.”

The pre­si­dent said Dan Cai­ne once offe­red to kill for him and slap­ped a signa­tu­re red hat on his head, a vio­la­ti­on of mili­ta­ry rules.

A Pen­ta­gon memo released Wed­nes­day orders mem­bers to iden­ti­fy indi­vi­du­als to be remo­ved, the latest move in an ongo­ing fight to bar trans­gen­der mem­bers from ser­vice.

The order requi­res all the mili­ta­ry ser­vices to pore over years of web­site pos­tings, pho­tos, news artic­les and vide­os.

The cuts would affect ever­y­thing from can­cer care to the abili­ty to assess toxic expo­sure.

Seni­or offi­cers invol­ved in the U.S. pull­out from Afgha­ni­stan are “going to be lar­ge­ly gone,” he said.

The Pen­ta­gon chief said he doesn’t want lawy­ers who are “road­blocks” to decis­i­ons he or mili­ta­ry com­man­ders make.

Ste­phen Fein­berg, at his con­fir­ma­ti­on hea­ring, signal­ed he’s unli­kely to chall­enge the Pentagon’s striking shift.

The Fri­day night ter­mi­na­ti­ons include Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown.

Trump loya­lists are sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to the GOP’s for­eign poli­cy tra­di­tio­na­lists.

The call could dri­ve a his­to­ri­cal­ly bipar­ti­san space agen­cy fur­ther into poli­ti­cal ent­rench­ment.