The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team is seeking more member countries.

More than 100 high school students — the children of Navy parents and Defense Department employees — staged a half-hour walkout Friday morning to protest Pentagon policies targeting diversity programs.

U.S. troops and other commuters in Japan will soon be able to purchase unregistered Suica and Pasmo smart cards again, following a nearly two-year pause due to a global semiconductor shortage.

Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting troops along the U.S.-Mexico border Friday to assess the military’s progress in fortifying sections of the wall, coming as the Pentagon rapidly expands its border mission in line with President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat illegal immigration.

The Marine Corps reduced its active fleet of MV-22 Ospreys on Okinawa last year, trimming the number from 24 to 20 aircraft as part of its evolving aviation strategy, according to Marine Corps spokesmen.

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors from various countries, is set to land in Costa Rica, making the country the latest Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration steps up deportations. 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s forensic lab in Hawaii has begun analyzing dozens of human remains retrieved from Laos and the Philippines in recent weeks in hopes of identifying U.S. service members who were killed in World War II and the Vietnam War.

Several government employee unions filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to rescind the firing of tens of thousands of new employees in a federal workforce reduction ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration that includes more than 1,000 workers terminated at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8% — or $50 billion — from the defense budget in each of the next five years.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that the U.S. is prepared to either ramp up or take down penalties based on the Kremlin’s willingness to negotiate.