Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has experienced widespread flooding in recent days and outages of its steam system vital for equipment sterilization, significant infrastructure failures that threaten to disrupt patient care for months to come, The Washington Post has learned.

The review released Friday states that the university should enact stricter procedures for workouts and states the September 2024 workout was “unusually intense,” resulting in 24 of the 61 participants developing rhabdomyolysis, a serious and uncommon muscle injury.

President Donald Trump is meeting Friday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company designs and supplies the advanced computer chips that play an integral role in the AI boom. A person familiar with the matter said the meeting was set up weeks ago and would enable them to get acquainted and talk about AI policy.

Salwan Momika staged several burnings of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023, which got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several Muslim nations, leading to unrest in many places. Momika was killed in a shooting Wednesday night at an apartment building near Stockholm.

A Navy ship in service for 53 years that has been a symbol of NATO strength for nearly two decades has a new commander.

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition.

The White House says President Donald Trump will put in place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective on Saturday, raising the specter of swift price increases for U.S. consumers even though he suggested he would try to blunt the impact on oil imports.

Investigators announced that the black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner has been recovered, and they are reviewing the flight data recorder along with two from the plane as they probe the cause of the devastating crash.

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The U.S. and Iraq announced an agreement last year to wind down the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by September 2025. But the fall of Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive led by Sunni Islamist rebels in December led some to reassess that stance.

An adviser for US President Donald Trump is set to meet with officials from the government of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, part of an early effort at engaging with the sanctioned leader of the oil-rich nation.

The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels are expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region’s major city, Goma. The rebels were repelled by government forces in South Kivu late Thursday.

The top US diplomat said President Donald Trump’s proposal to buy Greenland “is not a joke” because of the risk that China would station resources on the island that threaten American security and the importance of Arctic shipping lanes for energy exports.

Lithuania has committed to raising defense spending to 5% of its GDP, aligning with U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for increased NATO expenditures. Lithuania, which was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1990, is increasingly worried about the aggression of its neighbor Russia.

News that three high-profile hostages are expected to be released has brought excitement and trepidation to Israel on Friday. All three men have become household names in Israel since their abduction. Their release would be the fourth since a ceasefire paused the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas this month.

Russia is claiming it has captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it closes in on the critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk. The fall of Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar could enable the Russian army to complete its hold on Donetsk and even set the stage for it to continue on into the neighboring Dnipro region.

Police say a Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway.

The Trump administration’s purge of dozens of senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development encountered resistance on Thursday when the career employee who carried out the original directive rescinded it, calling the purge an “illegal” violation of “due process.”