Defense Secretary Hegseth removes at least 6 Army officers from a major general promotion list one day after the Army secretary quit, The Hill reports.
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 286 days at sea, as Democrats seek a probe of food shortages, broken plumbing and attempted suicides.
Trump nominates acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao permanently, 4 months after Defense Secretary Hegseth fired his predecessor and one day after the Army secretary resigned.
Iran says a US airstrike hit a wedding in a home, killing or wounding over 50, as Trump urges Iranians to “rise up and fight.”
Pentagon gives 3 million personnel ChatGPT and Musk’s Grok for unclassified work, days after a judge ruled it unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for refusing surveillance and weapons uses.
Army Secretary Driscoll resigns after tension with Defense Secretary Hegseth over readiness and the ousting of top generals, leaving the Army without a Senate-confirmed leader.
Supreme Court lets White House ballroom construction continue 5-4, Chief Justice Roberts dissenting, as the 65% complete project could finish before courts decide its legality.
Trump calls the Iran war “relatively little” and weighs new strikes, after the Washington Post reported military leaders warned Hegseth prolonged operations weaken US defenses elsewhere.
Pentagon quietly installs 3 retired colonels turned conservative influencers, 1 million X followers combined, in undisclosed civilian roles as they defend Defense Secretary Hegseth online, the Post reports.
US strikes 2 Iranian launchers on Larak Island, the first attack in a month, as Revolutionary Guard forces readied sea mines for the Strait of Hormuz.
Pentagon pauses the firing of 3 Stars and Stripes journalists until September 4 after a judge asked for more time to weigh their First Amendment suit.
Newly released 2025 Homeland Security memo lets National Guard troops sent across state lines make immigration arrests as federal officers, none reported so far.
Defense Secretary Hegseth blocks 4 more Army officers from one-star rank, some tied to the 2 generals he ousted this year, The Hill reports.
Trump signs an order creating the US Space Academy, a new military academy to train Space Force, NASA and commercial space workers, naming no location.
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to let it enforce its transgender troop ban on those already serving, calling an appeals court’s animus finding “gravely erroneous.”
Treasury bars Egypt’s second-largest bank’s UAE branches from the US financial system for aiding Iran at the war’s 6-month mark, as Trump hedges on sanctioning Chinese banks.
Labor Department rules a civilian mariner’s alleged rape by her captain aboard a Navy ship, in her locked cabin, was a workplace injury, leaving workers’ comp as her only remedy.
Trump will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11 at the Pentagon rather than ground zero, in part because the Manhattan memorial bars politicians from speaking, the Times reports.
NTSB finds Marine One couldn’t reach Reagan National’s tower from the Ellipse, its pad during White House construction, before an Aug. 4 close call with a passenger jet.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Federal judge rules the Pentagon violated the First Amendment by barring Anthropic from defense work to “make a public example” of its criticism of military AI plans.
Trump rejects new Iran talks as the war hits 6 months, while Iran and Oman agree on a Hormuz corridor requiring the US to lift its blockade.
Army awards 5 companies up to $2.2 billion to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases, guarding against commercial grid failure by 2028.
US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean kills 4, pushing the campaign’s toll to 227 as Hegseth claims 3 nations approved land operations.
USS Abraham Lincoln heads home with a Thailand port call after 250 straight days at sea, a carrier record, days after Trump said the deployment wasn’t long enough.
US strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific kills 2, pushing the campaign’s death toll past 200 with no trafficking evidence provided.
ICE deports the wife of an active-duty Army sergeant to Honduras, at least the seventh military spouse or parent removed under Trump.
Army Secretary Driscoll plans to leave by year’s end after months of tension with Hegseth, leaving the Army with no Senate-confirmed leadership.
Pentagon fires the Stars and Stripes editor in chief and a reporter for insubordination after both defended the paper’s independence in CBS interviews.
Trump threatens the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion suit unless it retracts a report finding his Guard deployments had no effect on crime.
Fort Stewart Army battalion offers 130 soldiers a 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI if they re-enlist for 2 to 6 years.
Vance declares the Iran war in a new phase of economic pressure as Tehran calls the threats cover for US military failure.
Stars and Stripes publisher retires after 19 years citing fundamental differences with Hegseth’s Pentagon, months after it fired the paper’s editorial independence ombudsman.
Trump says no Iran talks are underway or scheduled nearly six months into a war he predicted would last six weeks.
USS Benfold drifted 4 days in the South China Sea in July without power, toilets, or air conditioning before being towed to the Philippines.
CENTCOM commander calls mental health a valid concern after visiting the USS Abraham Lincoln, a day after Trump dismissed families’ worries as nonexistent.
Trump orders Hegseth to scale back military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with Kim Jong Un and the ally’s refusal to join the Iran war.
Iran’s army offers $30,000 bounties for killing or capturing US troops, doubling the reward for women who carry out attacks.
CENTCOM commander visits the USS Abraham Lincoln after a sailor went overboard and families reported mental health struggles aboard.
Navy weighs moving carrier command towers to match Trump’s preferred World War II look, a redesign his own first-term study priced in billions.
Army wife Maisa Lopes Eliaser returns home after an unexplained mid-flight phone call let her stay aboard her Brazil deportation flight and fly back.
Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot, says Trump “knows nothing about this stuff” after the catapult reversal order likely to cost billions.
Trump says the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record 260-day deployment is “not nearly long enough” as families report sailors trying to jump overboard.
A covert CIA program was behind the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos that left eight men missing, the Washington Post reports.
Trump orders the Navy to rip electromagnetic catapults from its newest carriers and return to steam, a swap likely costing billions.
Iran’s military rejects Trump’s claim of total Hormuz control as lies while Bessent threatens economic isolation surpassing anything the world has seen.
DOJ tells the DC Council its request that 10 governors withdraw Guard troops is impotent theatrics as the deployment enters a second year.
Hegseth says Colombia’s new president requested joint U.S. military operations against cartels as he urges 19 Latin American nations to abandon the ICC.
F-16s fire flares to intercept a plane over Trump’s Ohio visit to the Patriot Games, days after two intercepts at his Bedminster golf course.
Pentagon review admits U.S. strikes killed 153 Yemeni civilians in 2025, the first campaign after Hegseth gutted the office that prevents such deaths.
