President Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle, a civilian leader in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the acting Army secretary, following the resignation of Dan Driscoll earlier this week. Telle is currently the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. But he spent more than 20 years working for Republican senators, and…
Washington — An Air Force email from August and obtained by CBS News shows the Pentagon was instructing personnel to stop referring to ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran as “Operation Epic Fury” — three months after the Trump administration declared it had ended. In response to questions from CBS News, the Pentagon said Wednesday…
10m ago Iranian state TV says 4 killed by U.S. strike on wedding party in country’s south Iran’s IRIB state television network reported Wednesday that a wedding celebration in the southern province of Hormozgan was struck by three missiles, killing at least four people and leaving dozens more wounded. The Iranian foreign ministry earlier…
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Some of the military’s most decorated leaders have either been fired by Hegseth and President Trump or have retired with little explanation, including the…
Massachusetts is holding its 2026 primary election on Tuesday, with the ballot featuring a U.S. Senate contest between Democrats Ed Markey and Seth Moulton, as well as other key races. Polls will be open between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. You can find your polling place on the secretary of state’s website. Here’s a look…
31m ago Trump posts AI-generated video he says shows Kharg Island attack President Trump shared an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform late Sunday depicting what he said was Iran’s strategic oil hub of Kharg Island under attack. “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!” Mr. Trump wrote in his post accompanying the video….
The head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, has echoed President Trump’s insistence that the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes are clear of sea mines, saying they are “open, and momentum is building.” He acknowledged, however, that vessels still seek direct U.S. military protection to use the vital waterway, which Iran has…
Five years after the attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines for their actions in the wake of the blast. Service members were in the final days of the U.S. military’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, and were helping to process evacuees at…
Washington — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is holding a press conference Monday at the Treasury Department as the Trump administration announces the details of what it’s calling “economic D-Day” for Iran. Bessent is expected to broaden the administration’s current sanctions regime with the threat of stronger secondary sanctions on entities and countries that transact with…
President Trump threatened this week to wield an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare against Iran, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to “collapse” the Islamic Republic regime with the “toughest sanctions in history.” But the effectiveness of a bolstered economic campaign against Iran may rest largely on one close U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf,…
