Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal group chat with other national security officials to discuss plans for airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen will be investigated, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.
The United Nations on Thursday condemned reports by local rights groups of extrajudicial killings taking place in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, which the Sudanese military recaptured last month.
It costs only a few hundred yen to explore Tokyo’s Fukagawa Edo Museum, a carefully reconstructed neighborhood from the late Edo period (1603-1867) — a time when samurai strolled the streets and merchants sold rice and vegetables out of wooden storefronts.
Two wildfires that started lose to each other in the South Carolina mountains and burned an area over half the size of Hilton Head Island are nearly contained, authorities said.
The commanders of U.S. troops in Europe and Africa expressed trepidation Thursday about the Pentagon’s reported plans to consolidate commands and give up America’s role as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
When Sen. Richard Blumenthal announced the unofficial hearing, he said it was necessary because Republican lawmakers who lead the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees have yet to schedule a formal hearing on the federal layoffs and their impact on veterans’ jobs, benefits and services.
Nearly three months after two wildfires destroyed thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area, officials said the death toll from the blazes had reached 30.
The Army will slash nearly one dozen mandatory training programs for its soldiers in the summer as it looks to streamline their time to focus on combat readiness tasks. The new regulation is expected to be made official June 1 and will leave soldiers with 17 remaining mandatory training requirements.
In most cases, spending increases were additions to the amount of funds the Pentagon had sought. But more than one-third of the money went to scores of new programs, mostly weapons, that were not in the Pentagon’s budget plans for fiscal 2025, according to the report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan budget monitor.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he fired “some” White House National Security Council officials, a move that comes a day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns directly to him about staff loyalty.
Hearthside Food Solutions sent the breakfast sandwiches to Exchange stores before finding that the French toast contained sesame flour, but sesame wasn’t included among the allergens listed on the label.
U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski will be interred Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery, and U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Sanford G. Roy will be interred Tuesday at Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee.
Temporary ceasefires announced by warring groups in Myanmar in the wake of last week’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake represent a rare de-escalation of a conflict that since 2021 has taken thousands of lives and uprooted more than 3 million people.
The head of Myanmar’s military government arrived in Thailand for a regional summit, making a rare international trip as his country recovers from a devastating earthquake that killed thousands.
Violent storms and tornadoes tore through cities from Oklahoma to Indiana during what could be a record-setting period of deadly weather and flooding. At least seven people were killed in Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri. Forecasters say it was the opening act for a week of wild weather that could bring life-threatening flash floods across the nation’s midsection.
Hungary is a signatory to the ICC’s founding charter, meaning that it would have been obliged to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on arrival for alleged war crimes, but Hungary’s prime minister dismissed the order from the outset. “I hope many will follow,” Netanyahu said of the country’s decision to withdraw from the ICC.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 27 or more sheltering at a school in the north, according to Palestinian medical authorities, in a stepped-up offensive that Israel’s military said is intended to put new pressure on Hamas and eventually expel the militant group.
The U.S. levied economic sanctions on an accused Iranian money launderer along with two Afghans and two Russians for helping Houthi militants in Yemen obtain millions of dollars of goods and weapons from Russia.