Hamas identified the three Israeli hostages that it plans to free in the next release mandated by the fragile ceasefire agreement, a sign the deal was moving forward Friday even as U.S. and Israeli officials continued calls to relocate Gaza’s population after the war.
The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border. A U.S. official said Friday that the order has been approved to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina.
A newly appointed U.S. envoy says she hopes Lebanese authorities are committed to making sure that the Hezbollah militant group isn’t a part of the new government in any form. Efforts to form a Lebanese government led by Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam have stalled.
Elementary school reading assignments on immigration to America, Black History Month social studies material and chapters on sexuality and gender for high schoolers have been marked for now as “do not use” resources by the Pentagon’s school system.
As Ukraine faces a desperate shortage of troops at the front line, there has been a wave of bombings against the recruitment centers meant to replenish the ranks, which law enforcement officials are calling a Russian-orchestrated campaign.
Top Democrats overseeing national security policy are asking that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Director of National Intelligence Lora Shiao take “immediate steps” to insulate their employees from White House directives that they say will erode the federal government’s merit-based civil service system.
Trump made the comments as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the White House on Friday for their first face-to-face meeting. Trump added that he thinks reducing the trade deficit “will be very easy” for Japan.
House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending. Senate Republicans on Friday jumped ahead, unveiling a more tailored $340 billion blueprint focused on President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda and bolstered defense spending.
The latest mass wave of anti-government rallies was fueled by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his remarks that Slovakia might leave the European Union and NATO.
A Fort Liberty Army officer convicted last year on federal gun smuggling and false statement charges will spend more than five years in prison, a federal judge in North Carolina decided
Pre-K was implemented this school year in 80 of 90 DODEA elementary schools. The free program, available for children who turn 4 on or before Sept. 1 each year, was offered at all but five of 34 primary schools in Europe — one of those five was Ramstein Elementary School.
Donald Lee Collins, 41, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing another soldier’s 15-year-old daughter. Upon release he will be required to register as a sex offender and serve 10 years of probation.
A Navy carrier strike group that has battled Iranian-backed Houthi militants for months has left the Middle East and arrived in the Mediterranean Sea.
U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to 4% to start 2025. The first monthly jobs report of Donald Trump’s second presidency points to a solid but unspectacular labor market.
The move paves the way for the Taliban to appoint their own team and is another diplomatic success for the group. Their takeover of diplomatic missions in Turkey pushes the number of overseas embassies and consulates under Taliban control to more than 40.
A federal judge in Boston on Friday considers a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally. The hearing comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the effort.
China lashed out Friday at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington’s threat to take back the Panama Canal.
In the past two weeks alone, more than 3,000 people were killed as Rwanda-backed rebels wrested control of Goma city from the Congolese army and peacekeepers deployed by the UN and the Southern African Development Community.
Sanctions include blocking International Criminal Court officials from entering the U.S. The ICC had issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his actions toward Palestinians in Gaza late last year. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court.