Promotion delayed for general who was the last US service member out of Afghanistan

A batch of military promotions approved by the Senate on Thursday left out Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, an officer who oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and is now nominated to lead the Army in Europe and Africa.

Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now

A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump won’t be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next.

Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

125th Army-Navy game: Uniforms pay tribute to 101st Airborne, ‘Jolly Rogers’

It’s almost time to suit up for the 125th Army-Navy football game, and the teams’ uniforms will once again pay tribute to each service’s rich history. This year: the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the Navy’s “Jolly Rogers.”

Rebuild of historic Tun Tavern, birthplace of Marine Corps, ceremonially breaks ground in Philadelphia

Philadelphia has hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for “The Tun” as part of a project to re-create the historic tavern known to every Marine as the service’s birthplace.

Service members and veterans defrauded in Harris Jewelry scam eligible for refunds

Service members and veterans defrauded by a retail jeweler’s price gouging scheme are eligible for refunds from a civil settlement secured by the New York attorney general.

Coast Guard will hire civilian icebreaker while waiting for its own to be built

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire a commercial icebreaker to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next generation of its cutters to be built in the next several years, service officials told lawmakers.

Military Sealift Command rolls out initiative to fill needed jobs at sea as it sidelines 17 ships

The command’s efforts to attract and retain workers in the next two years will focus on keeping consistent work and time-off schedules to ensure mariners have a work-life balance. The command is also seeking reforms to pay caps to offer higher wages that will attract more mariners.

US intelligence warns defense companies of Russian sabotage threat

U.S. intelligence officials warned American defense companies on Thursday to increase security precautions following several acts of sabotage in Europe that officials have blamed on Russia.

Michigan kids donate their Halloween candy to US soldiers overseas

The students and staff at Myers Elementary in Grand Blanc, Mich., packed 1,100 bags of Halloween candy with handwritten notes for U.S. service members in a program called “Treats for Troops,” now in its third year at the school.

Musk, Ramaswamy vow ‘mass head-count reductions’ in US government

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy laid out their plans to slash federal regulations, cut government spending and significantly reduce the number of federal employees.

Pathologist disputes finding that Marine veteran’s chokehold caused subway rider’s death

For six minutes, Jordan Neely was pinned to a subway floor in a chokehold that ended with him lying still. But that’s not what killed him, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in defense of the military-trained commuter charged with killing Neely.

House passes bill that would allow Treasury to target nonprofits it deems to support terrorism

The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism, alarming civil liberties groups about how a second Trump presidency could invoke it to punish political opponents.

Trump chooses Pam Bondi for attorney general pick after Matt Gaetz withdraws

President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be U.S. attorney general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name. Bondi is a longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial.

Elon Musk’s budget crusade could cause a constitutional clash in Trump’s second term

Trump put Musk, the world’s richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, in charge of the new department, which is really an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations.

Declassified Pentagon F-35 study details reliability, security woes for America’s costliest weapon

A declassified Pentagon comprehensive test report of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 warplane, reveals that six years of combat testing has been marred by reliability and maintenance delays, guns that don’t shoot straight and unresolved concerns about cyber defense capabilities.

US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

The biggest remaining unsanctioned Russian bank hit with US sanctions, nearly 3 years into war

Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank and its six foreign subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday — in a move intended to curtail Russia’s ability to evade the thousands of sanctions imposed on the nation since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

FBI and DHS leaders won’t testify publicly about national security threats before Senate

The leaders of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security declined to testify publicly at a scheduled Senate hearing Thursday on global national security threats, a break from precedent following years of open testimony before the panel.