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.

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.