A flu outbreak sickens at least 159 trainees at Lackland Air Force Base weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth ended mandatory military flu vaccination, with only 40 percent now opting in.
Defense Secretary Hegseth tells European allies to take the lead on their own defense as the U.S. shifts its military focus toward China.
U.S. forces kill three more in an eastern Pacific boat attack, pushing the campaign’s death toll to at least 211 since September with no trafficking evidence released.
The first U.S.-Iran talks under Wednesday’s ceasefire are postponed as Israel refuses to withdraw from Lebanon and overnight strikes there kill 16.
Poland offers to co-finance a permanent U.S. military base on NATO’s eastern flank as Trump pulls troops from Germany.
Trump signs the 60-day Iran ceasefire into effect and threatens to resume bombing if the deal collapses.
A B-52 bomber crashes on takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base during a routine radar-modernization test, killing all eight aboard.
The U.S. and Iran sign a 60-day ceasefire memorandum, then clash over frozen funds and whether the deal binds Israel in Lebanon.
Trump stages a UFC fight card on the White House South Lawn for his 80th birthday, with the arena alone costing over $60 million per a Park Service filing.
Trump declares the Iran war over and lifts the Strait of Hormuz blockade, though the agreement is a 60-day ceasefire to begin nuclear talks.
Trump says the U.S. and Iran will sign a peace deal Sunday, but Tehran says it will not be signed then.
The Pentagon releases a third batch of UFO files it bills as transparency, though they show strange lights and no proof of alien craft.
A U.S. military strike kills Tren de Aragua leader Héctor Guerrero Flores inside Venezuela, in a joint operation its government confirms.
Pakistan declares a final U.S.-Iran peace deal text reached as Iran attacks Strait of Hormuz shipping and Trump rejects Tehran’s account of the terms.
Trump calls off strikes and claims an Iran war settlement hours after vowing bigger bombing, but Tehran denies approving any deal.
U.S. bombs Iran for a second straight night after Trump says Tehran will pay the price for stalling on a deal.
U.S. strikes nearly 20 Iranian targets after Iran downs an Apache helicopter, and Tehran retaliates against American bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Pentagon reverses its religious-affiliation list after Latter-day Saints lawmakers protest being excluded from its Christian categories.
Trump weighs buying the British-controlled Chagos Islands and their Indian Ocean military base, months after his Greenland bid collapsed.
Defense Secretary Hegseth uses a D-Day speech in Normandy to denounce an “invasion” of migrants on Europe’s beaches, then skips the main commemoration honoring the Allied dead.
North Korea rejects U.S. denuclearization push and vows to expand its nuclear arsenal a day before Chinese President Xi visits Kim Jong Un.
House committee votes along party lines to codify the Defense Department’s renaming as the Department of War, a change Trump ordered in September.
Defense Secretary Hegseth brings his wife and six children to France’s D-Day commemoration, straining his security detail during the Iran war.
Defense Secretary Hegseth cuts the Pentagon’s recognized faiths from 211 to 31, dropping Unitarian Universalists, humanists, and pagans.
U.S. forces shoot down Iranian drones and intercept missiles aimed at Bahrain and Kuwait as Tehran calls ceasefire talks deadlocked.
Federal planning commission keeps Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery alive despite 1,700 mostly opposed comments, requesting more detail on height and air-traffic safety.
Trump administration sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel, his family, and the military as Rubio presses for regime change in Havana.
A U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire falters as Hezbollah rejects it and Israeli strikes kill seven in southern Lebanon.
House votes 215 to 208 to halt the Iran war, but the measure still needs the Senate and may not legally bind Trump.
Secretary of State Rubio tells Congress that Greenland belongs to Denmark “for now,” as Trump’s envoy openly works to annex the island.
The Pentagon hires Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to storming the Capitol on January 6, into a sensitive office running counterterrorism and hostage rescue missions.
U.S. and Iran trade new strikes as a senior Iranian commander calls renewed war inevitable, contradicting Trump’s claim that talks are advancing rapidly.
Defense Secretary Hegseth strikes at least seven Navy officers from a one-star promotion list chosen by senior admirals, leaving no women on the final slate.
Pentagon bars journalists from its press office by reclassifying the room as a secure facility for handling classified material, calling the move uncontroversial.
Federal appeals court rules Hegseth’s transgender military ban unconstitutional and blocks the discharge of active-duty troops, calling it driven by animus.
Iran suspends talks with the U.S. and opens a new front through Houthi allies, while Trump says negotiations continue at a rapid pace.
The U.S. military has quietly guided about 70 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in three weeks, most running dark to dodge Iranian attack.
Trump sends a third round of edits to the Iran ceasefire deal, demanding Tehran destroy its enriched uranium and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. fires a missile into a cargo ship breaking the Iran blockade a day after Trump said he would lift it.
U.S. military kills three in another eastern Pacific drug-boat attack as a Pentagon watchdog opens a review of the campaign’s legal basis.
U.S. general meets Cuban military officials at Guantanamo Bay as Trump squeezes the island with a fuel blockade.
Trump says he will lift the U.S. naval blockade of Iran and lays out deal terms that Iran calls false.
White House adviser Navarro pushed the Pentagon to fast-track a $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth firm Trump Jr.’s venture fund had quietly invested in months earlier.
Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software contract after CEO Michael Dell pledged $6.25 billion to Trump’s signature children’s investment accounts.
Caribbean and Pacific drug-boat strikes have killed at least 199 since September after survivors of recent attacks were never found, the U.S. military says.
U.S. and Iran reach tentative 60-day ceasefire extension pending Trump’s approval as the two sides keep trading strikes.
Virginia Representative Beyer introduces a bill to block Trump’s 250-foot arch planned for his Northern Virginia district near Arlington National Cemetery.
