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Air Force places career training on hold while services scrub DEI content

The Air Force has temporarily halted career development courses as part of a broader effort to remove diversity, equity and inclusion-related content from military training and education.

Several sailors on their knees building tents.

First military deportation flights from US take off for Guantanamo as sailors help Marines prep for incoming migrants

New Special Forces soldiers don their Green Berets for the first time during their Special Forces Qualification Course graduation on Jan. 23, 2025 in Fayetteville, N.C. (Corey Dickstein/Stars and Stripes)

‘Give it a shot:’ Special Forces instructors seek more Green Beret hopefuls

New bill would offer troops annual physicals with expanded medical testing

Growler’s precautionary arrested landing diverts other Navy flights in Japan

Japan bolsters anti-air defense with $900 million purchase of US missiles

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AAFES plans dental clinic for civilians at airlift hub in western Tokyo

Arizona couple pleads guilty to $1.2B insurance scheme targeting elderly and terminally ill veterans and service members

New 90K-square-foot center at Army’s special warfare school brings holistic health under one roof at Fort Liberty

Army lieutenant colonel sentenced to 10 months in prison for beating wife

Senate confirms Doug Collins as VA secretary

Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership

One of the last Tuskegee Airmen dies at age 100 in Michigan

Expert wants US to arm Philippines with sound cannons to fight China’s gray-zone tactics

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Army

Close-up view of a stone entrance sign for U.S. Army base Fort Leavenworth.

Army lieutenant colonel sentenced to 10 months in prison for beating wife

‘Give it a shot:’ Special Forces instructors seek more Green Beret hopefuls

New 90K-square-foot center at Army’s special warfare school brings holistic health under one roof at Fort Liberty

Air Force

Two American airmen stationed at separate bases in Italy were hospitalized after an incident last week, an Aviano Air Base spokeswoman said Feb. 3, 2025. A local newspaper reported that the airmen are husband and wife and that she is accused of stabbing him on a highway.

Aviano confirms hospitalization of 2 US airmen involved in reported spousal stabbing in Italy

Air base on Okinawa inspecting another 263 homes for failing concrete

Air Force special operator killed in hit-and-run by ex-con near MacDill AFB

Navy

A U.S. Navy E/A-18G Growler with Electronic Attack Squadron 141, Carrier Air Wing 5, lands at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Nov. 17, 2024.

Growler’s precautionary arrested landing diverts other Navy flights in Japan

USS Fort Worth sailors honor WWII Navy veteran on her 101st birthday

Navy asks sailors for feedback on housing, child care and gyms

Space Force

Jason Crow stands at a podium with microphones outside Buckley Space Force Base.

Buckley Space Force Base won’t house immigrant detainees, US rep says — but ICE is mum

Ready for 156 Space Coast launches this year, Space Force targets bottlenecks

Space Force will play a role in the 60th presidential inauguration, a historic first for the youngest branch

Coast Guard

Coast Guard Cutter Healy returns home to Seattle on Dec. 12, 2024, after more than five months at sea. The Coast Guard temporarily suspended a policy intended to eliminate harassment while it reevaluates guidance issued in 2023.

Coast Guard suspends fired commandant’s policy aimed at eliminating harassment

Freighter on the move after it was freed from ice on frozen Lake Erie

Coast Guard to ‘surge assets’ to South Florida to comply with Trump’s executive order

Marine Corps

In an undated photo, the sign for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, posted along Interstate Highway 5 reads, 'Preserving California's Precious Resources.' Camp Pendleton is the premier Fleet Marine Force training base on the West Coast. (Courtesy Photo)

2 Marines plead guilty in fatal fentanyl case of a fellow Marine

Chesty XVI, official mascot of Marine Barracks Washington, is promoted to corporal

Marine Corps Osprey loses load of MREs while training off Okinawa

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Europe

Police officers holding guns wait and look out from the corners of buildings.

At least 10 killed at adult education center in what officials say is Sweden’s worst mass shooting

US sanctions bite with Russia’s crude exports facing delays offloading

US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees

Asia-Pacific

A United States Postal Service truck sits on a street outside a home.

USPS lifts suspension of parcels from Hong Kong and China, reversing decision from a day earlier

AAFES plans dental clinic for civilians at airlift hub in western Tokyo

Japan bolsters anti-air defense with $900 million purchase of US missiles

Middle East

A view through a window of a destroyed area in Gaza City.

The Gaza Strip has long been a powder keg. Here’s a look at the history of the embattled region

Syria’s interim leader holds talks with key ally Turkey on his second international trip

Iraq’s top court suspends new legislation that activists say undermines women’s rights

Africa

People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse had died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Uganda begins Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse and infects 2 other people

The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major Congo city declare a unilateral ceasefire

Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies

Americas

Journalists sit wounded after being shot by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean Feguens Regala)

US has frozen funding for the UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti, UN says

Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US action

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Korea

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Okinawa

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VIDEO: Strawberry season ripe for pickin’ in Okinawa

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Guam

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A quick look at Guam's beautiful parks

Inalåhan Gadao Festival to be held on Guam Feb 14-15

Veterans

The BLUF: Yoga, meditation and AI polyp detection

Marine Corps veteran Sarah Kallassy looks at yoga and meditation training for veterans with WarriorsAtEase and how AI technology is assisting with VA colonoscopies.

Sports

Kadena's Jayla Johnson (2) was named the tournament's Offensive MVP and to the All-Tournament team.

Kadena back on the throne again after nine-year absence

Jazlene Vergara spurs a fourth-quarter rally as the Panthers defeat American School in Japan in the Far East girls D-I title game.

History

Hed: Taking a rest, 1969

Go Noi Island, Vietnam, June 12, 1969: Members of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division take a break during sweep operations on the north side of Go Noi Island. The 1st Division, together with ARVN and Korean Marines are concentrating on destroying enemy fortifications, bunkers, tunnels and supply areas to make the island, located 10 miles south of Da Nang and five miles inland from Hoi An, useless to the Communists. The area is fertile and was once heavily populated, but is now a free fire zone.

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Taking a rest, 1969

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of U.S. Marines taking a break during sweep operations on the north side of Go Noi Island, Vietnam on June 12, 1969.

Living

A Siberian husky.

Does daylight saving time affect dogs? It depends if they have to work.

A new study looks at the impact on huskies and malamutes — both sled dogs and house pets.

Travel

A bear with her cubs in Grand Teton National Park.

Picturesque Jackson Hole, Wyo., has much to discover

Steam rises from an outdoor pool at the Felsland Badeparadies in Dahn, Germany, on Jan. 14, 2025. The facility offers pools, water slides and saunas.

Swim and sweat the day away at pool and sauna in Dahn’s wooded hills near French border

A traditional performer from Sado Island in Niigata prefecture, Japan, shows off his moves in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Nov. 26, 2024.

Niigata shows off island delights in Tokyo’s Ginza district