President Trump said Wednesday his administration would send $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks to members of the military, crediting tariffs and the passage of a massive GOP tax and spending bill earlier this year. Trump said during a primetime address to the nation that 1.4 million soldiers would receive the checks, with the amount chosen to...

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) has placed a hold on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to serve as head of the Coast Guard after the service backtracked on keeping swastikas and nooses labeled as hate symbols, instead moving forward by listing the images as “potentially divisive.” The new Coast Guard workplace harassment policy, which downgrades...

Navy Adm. Frank Bradley told lawmakers Wednesday he was open to the broader release of the video of the U.S. military’s early September lethal strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, apparently bucking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said a day earlier that the Pentagon would not release the full video of the mission to...

The House shot down a pair of Democratic-led resolutions Wednesday designed to curtail President Trump’s strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the administration’s “hostilities within or against Venezuela.” The first resolution, brought by House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), aims to end the boat strikes by directing the president...

President Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela on Tuesday, continuing his escalations against the Latin American country and its leader, Nicolás Maduro. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the president said Maduro’s “illegitimate” regime is using oil to “finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and...