The U.S. Coast Guard said that it will be surging ships, boats and aircraft to South Florida and other areas of the country to bolster anti-maritime migration efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to use the nation’s military to defend the border.

“All I was told by the president is to take care of our veterans,” Doug Collins told the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee during his confirmation hearing. “We’re not going to sacrifice the veterans benefits to do a budget. … I wouldn’t go to a place in which we’re not doing the mission. The mission is veterans.”

The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the U.S. troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said, as relations between Kabul and the Donald Trump administration start on a wobbly note.

A Massachusetts man took “repeated, deliberate steps” to steal from his neighbor — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was in the hospital — “again and again,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents filed last week.

President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain - including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Tuesday with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicked off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions with the Indo- Pacific “Quad.” The ministers reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to the format and its goals and indicated their leaders would meet in the coming months.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to repeal a provision allowing transgender troops to serve in the military.

Ohio public school districts will soon be required to allow open enrollment of children whose parents are full-time, active duty members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard.

Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.

Rep. Elise Stefanik pledged Tuesday to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and roll out a review of U.S. funding critical for U.N. agencies handling health programs and more around the world.