The Confederacy and its leaders were guilty of “treason” against the United States and honoring them in today’s military can be deeply troubling to minority service members, America’s top general said Thursday in blunt comments that highlight the Pentagon’s growing rift with President Trump. In testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of…
President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square, current and former military leaders say, has started a moment of reckoning in the military.Videotranscripttranscript‘It Was a Mistake,’ Milley Says of Participating in Trump Photo OpGen. Mark A. Milley, the top military official in the United States, apologized for his role in President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square after…
NASCAR is back after being suspended for more than 10 weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, and giving the command to fire things up at the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday will reportedly be none other than Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.As grand marshal, Milley will give the virtual command ahead of the 61st…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…