The U.S. military has destroyed its last supplies of toxic firefighting foam at installations in Japan, according to the Tokyo-based command.

The Defense Commissary Agency is replacing U.S. imports of certain fruits and vegetables with locally grown counterparts.

The Defense Department is counting on the contractor that provides health care for military members overseas to create a provider network in Japan that accepts civilian employee health insurance without crippling upfront payments.

Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate former U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and longtime political ally, to join his Cabinet as head of the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs.

“This increase is not statistically significant,” said Liz Clark, the director of the Pentagon’s Defense Suicide Prevention Office. The Defense Department in recent years has aimed to improve mental health care access for troops.

Cuba is hemorrhaging people as the economy falters. Now, the country is coming under fresh political pressure as one of the government’s archrivals is poised to start calling foreign-policy shots in Washington.

A report issued Wednesday by the VA Office of Inspector General cited security lapses at the Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta that have led to weaknesses in the computer system and made records vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification and destruction.

The return of military horses that have escorted caskets to gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery for more than 75 years will depend on the Army securing adequate pastureland, repairing rundown stables and improving training for handlers, officials said.

Presidents believe, understandably, that they were elected to do what they campaigned on. The challenge is that Congress and state governments are full of people who won an election, too. And they often have their own ideas about what their “mandate” is. Postelection politics is about dealing with that reality.

Donald Trump will inherit, to all appearances, a solid economy when he assumes the presidency in January. Yet there’s a reason for voter dissatisfaction with the economy and, beneath the surface, there are several risks for Trump 2.0 as he thinks about enacting his trade and fiscal agenda.