Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Memorial Day weekend is typically full of parades, flag ceremonies and other large group activities to honor fallen military heroes, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation has had to find alternative ways to commemorate the sacrifices of those who…
A military recruitment memo sent out by the US Military Entrance Processing Command (MEPCOM) states that those who have tested positive for COVID-19 will not be allowed to join the military — even after they recover.According to the memo, which has been widely circulating on social media and was first reported on by Military Times on…
Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest maritime warfare exercise, is set to kick off this summer off the coast of Hawaii. But U.S. military planners say it will have a very different feel and look in the age of the coronavirus. Just like their civilian counterparts, Pentagon planners are facing a dual challenge from…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The first satellite launched into space by Iran last week that revealed the country's secret military space program is nothing but “a tumbling webcam in space," the head of the U.S military's newest service said Saturday.Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it put…
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…