Up to 60 VA employees whose sole job was to advance initiatives known as DEI are on paid administrative leave, the VA said Monday. The employees’ combined annual earnings total more than $8 million. The average salary of these workers is $136,000 per year.

An inspector general conducts investigations and audits into any potential malfeasance, fraud, waste or abuse by a government agency or its personnel and issues reports and recommendations on its findings.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered 400 soldiers Monday to the Rio Grande Valley, escalating efforts to secure the state’s border with Mexico as President Donald Trump sends military reinforcements after declaring a state of emergency along the border.

Rain has mostly moved out of Southern California after the first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters. Ash and mud flowed across streets, but no significant problems were reported Monday in areas scorched by wildfires.

Machine learning tools could help the Army identify which soldiers are at higher risk of self-harm and use the knowledge to improve suicide prevention efforts in the service, a new study found.

The Air Force is restoring videos of the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, to its basic training curriculum, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday.

The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500.

Military troops arrived to the southern border over the last few days for a deployment to provide deportation support and construction efforts, ordered by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20.

Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation to a similar order announced hours earlier by President Donald Trump.

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth starts his first official day on Monday morning, he will face a daunting array of issues to tackle — from global conflicts and border security to administrative tasks.

A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Rain fell on parts of Southern California on Sunday and the scattered showers were expected to continue overnight, boosting the risk of toxic ash runoff in areas scorched by Los Angeles-area wildfires.

The finding isn’t the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe.

Volunteers on F.E. Warren Air Force Base were dressed with fake wounds Thursday morning, preparing to be part of an active shooter drill.

Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped the case against the Texas doctor accused of sharing personal information of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in the country to a conservative journalist, who used that information to publish a story that the hospital was secretly providing transgender care for minors.

The dismissals of more than a dozen independent inspectors general at federal agencies reportedly began Friday night and were effective immediately. The firings were carried out without giving Congress 30-day notices of removal of inspectors general, possibly in violation of the law.