U.S. troops will leave Iraq by September 30, ending a 23-year military presence, as Trump cites oil company ties and hosts Iraq’s prime minister.
Senate Democrats block the $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill, refusing to advance Pentagon programs while Trump resumes the Iran war Congress never authorized.
U.S. blockade of Iranian ports resumes and strikes hit a fourth night as Trump scraps the 20% cargo fee he announced a day earlier.
Hegseth creates a Pentagon-DOJ task force to prosecute leakers, over a year after sharing airstrike timing in Signal chats with his wife and brother.
Trump declares the US will run the Strait of Hormuz and charge 20% on cargo, reinstating the blockade as strikes hit Iran a third night.
Survivors of the Iranian drone strike that killed 6 soldiers in Kuwait tell The Washington Post generals ignored warnings the port was a known target.
Trump orders a fourth round of strikes on Iran in a week as Tehran says the attacks have rendered months of diplomacy futile.
Rep. Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained his delegation for 90 minutes in the West Bank as IDF soldiers refused to intervene.
U.S. strikes 140 Iranian targets in its third attack this week after Iran disables a container ship and declares the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times reporters, with agents visiting some homes, after stories revealed the Qatari Air Force One lacks antimissile defenses.
SC Guard lifts eight Apache pilots’ suspensions hours after Hegseth’s “We’ll fix this” post, ending a safety review of their July 4 flyover low over beach crowds.
Trump threatens to “decimate and destroy” Iran with 1,000 locked and loaded missiles if it assassinates him, after Khamenei’s funeral drew calls for his killing.
U.S. strikes kill at least 14 in Iran and hit the Bushehr nuclear plant perimeter as Trump claims Tehran “wants to make a deal so badly.”
Trump tells Zelensky at NATO he’ll license Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors, without informing defense makers or settling where production happens.
U.S. hits 90 more Iranian targets in a second night of strikes as Trump threatens to seize Kharg Island and reimpose the naval blockade.
Denmark’s prime minister says she is ready to defend “every inch of NATO” after Trump renews his Greenland claim at the alliance’s summit in Turkey.
Trump declares the Iran ceasefire “over” at the NATO summit after U.S. strikes on 80 targets trigger Iranian missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait.
Trump says defense contractor Sikorsky will pay the full cost of a granite White House helipad because its new Marine One helicopters scorch the lawn.
Tennessee National Guard soldiers on Memphis task force duty fatally shoot a 20-year-old man police say turned a handgun toward them during a foot chase.
Trump calls U.S. support for NATO “ridiculous” and the relationship “one-sided” days before the alliance’s 32 member states gather for a summit in Ankara.
U.S.-Iran peace talks pause at least a week for slain Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral as Iran’s chief negotiator urges mourners to avenge his killing.
Trump tells the Theodore Roosevelt library opening he will give himself and his sons the Medal of Honor “for something,” then says he is only kidding.
U.S. and Iran resume indirect talks in Qatar, and Trump claims denuclearization is advancing even as Vance says nuclear negotiations have not begun.
Defense Secretary Hegseth fills the Defense Policy Board with 15 Trump allies, including Robert Lighthizer and tech billionaire Marc Andreessen, after purging the panel last year.
Iran attacks U.S. allies Bahrain and Kuwait, then threatens to halt talks, even as a U.S. official says both sides will stand down.
A data exposure at Peter Thiel’s secretive Dialog group reveals personal records of a White House intelligence official and an active-duty officer in a special operations unit, prompting a Pentagon review.
The United States and Iran trade new strikes as Trump threatens to end the Islamic Republic’s existence, days after a ceasefire neither side honors.
Washington settles with a man arrested for playing the “Imperial March” behind National Guard troops in 2025, while his claims against the Ohio guardsman proceed.
The U.S. strikes Iran over a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the first since last week’s ceasefire extension.
The fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman sues the Pentagon, alleging she was dismissed days after a column criticizing its efforts to control the military paper’s editorial independence.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard strikes a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz for using the U.S.-approved route, challenging the deal that just reopened the waterway.
France calls for an orderly U.S. military drawdown from Europe, telling Washington to coordinate its troop and weapons pullbacks rather than blindsiding allies as it has repeatedly this year.
The Air Force restores a flu shot rule for recruits after a Texas base outbreak sickened 222, two months after Hegseth ended the vaccine mandate.
Israeli forces kill two Hezbollah fighters and lose a soldier in south Lebanon as the fragile Iran ceasefire frays and Tehran threatens ships crossing Hormuz without its approval.
Gen. Chris Donahue, the last U.S. soldier out of Afghanistan, is set to abruptly retire as Hegseth downgrades his command and purges the Pentagon’s top ranks.
The Senate approves a war powers resolution on Iran 50-48, the first time both chambers have formally rebuked Trump over the war he launched.
Iran vows permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz and the right to charge passage fees, rejecting U.S. demands as the ceasefire strains.
Vance says Iran will let U.N. nuclear inspectors back in, but Tehran says nuclear negotiations have not begun.
Trump threatens to hit Iran “very hard again” and seize the Strait of Hormuz as Vance opens the highest-level direct U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland.
Investors tied to Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family secretly bought into SpaceX before its record IPO, court records ProPublica sued to unseal show.
Iran recloses the Strait of Hormuz days after signing the ceasefire, blaming Israel’s refusal to leave Lebanon as talks open in Switzerland.
The Interior Department argues a 1910 law capping Washington building heights does not apply to federal projects, clearing Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington.
Trump unveils the $400 million jet Qatar gave him as a new Air Force One that will pass to his presidential library when he leaves office.
Israel kills at least 47 in the deadliest Lebanon strikes since the U.S.-Iran deal, then agrees to a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
The Pentagon tells lawmakers it needs $80 billion to cover the Iran war and other costs, warning the services could run out of operating money this summer, with no war authorization ever sought.
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.