Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti were removed from their positions late Friday. The Trump administration announced the reliefs in a series of messages on social media and a press statement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Two defense officials also confirmed their removals to USNI News. In a post on the social media network Truth Social, President Donald Trump thanked Brown for his service and announced he would nominate Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to lead the Pentagon. “I want to thank General Charles
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President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and announced he would replace five other high level positions in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.
A federal judge on Friday extended the temporary restraining order on the implementation of a Trump administration plan to cut medical research funds that the National Institutes of Health provides. Minnesota public and private institutions would be affected.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to purge the Pentagon of what he has called “woke” policies and personnel, and to reshape the military’s top ranks.
Israeli officials were furious after Hamas returned what it said was the mother’s body, but then turned out to not be her. The bodies of her two children were returned Thursday.