EXCLUSIVE: Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible | CNN Politics

US officials suspect Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states, according to multiple sources ...

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US military looks underground to protect wounded troops as drones force changes to wartime medicine

An inside look at how the US military is looking to protect medical personnel and facilities from the constant threat of drones, based on exclusive access to a highly realistic Army exercise.

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Iran building up defenses of Kharg Island to protect against potential US ground attack, sources say | CNN Politics

Iran has been laying traps and moving additional military personnel and air defenses to Kharg Island in recent weeks in preparation for a possible US operation to take control of the island, according...

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Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections | CNN Politics

Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters.

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Patricia Kime for Military.com, Ilie Mitaru for BBC Win Wounded Warrior Project® Awards - National Press Foundation

Reporters Patricia Kime and Ilie Mitaru have won the National Press Foundation’s 2025 Wounded Warrior Project Award for Coverage of Veterans.

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‘Enemy KIA’: Trump revives playbook from Afghanistan for campaign targeting alleged drug boats | CNN Politics

Deep below the US Capitol, in a secure room meant to protect discussions of American secrets, a wave of sarcastic laughter spread among lawmakers and staff members who were assembled to receive a brie...

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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics

The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

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CIA cyberattacks targeting the Maduro regime didn’t satisfy Trump in his first term. Now the US is flexing its military might | CNN Politics

In the final year of President Donald Trump’s first administration, the CIA carried out a clandestine cyberattack against the Venezuelan government, disabling the computer network used by Venezuelan l...

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Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

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How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

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'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military

Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.

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Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own

The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as part of the Trump administration's overarching goal to slash the size of t...

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Military Domestic Violence Convictions Skyrocketed After Commanders Were Removed from Process

Courts-martial are on the rise for domestic violence charges across the Defense Department services.

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Military Domestic Violence Convictions Skyrocketed After Commanders Were Removed from Process

Courts-martial are on the rise for domestic violence charges across the Defense Department services.

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A Veteran Was Detained by Marines. It Highlights Concerns over the Military's Growing Ties to Law Enforcement.

Marcos Leao's detention by Marines marks what many legal, defense and policy experts say is an unprecedented violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the U.S. military from performing domestic...

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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

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Food Assistance Cuts Softened, Veterans Education Benefits Protected in Senate Version of Trump Agenda Bill

Two aspects of a sweeping bill to enact President Donald Trump's agenda that alarmed veterans and military family advocates have been watered down by Senate Republicans.

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'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

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Army Eliminates Office for Minimizing Civilian Deaths on Battlefields

The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which once housed roughly 30 staff, has been folded into the Army's dense web of unrelated bureaucratic policy shops.

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The Army Parade Poses Potential Pitfalls like a Tank Breakdown. Soldiers Say They're Prepared.

Thousands of soldiers have descended upon Washington, D.C., from more than a dozen Army divisions across the force, and many of them have meticulously prepared their machines to roll down Constitution...

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The Marines Are in Los Angeles

Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and the ability to temporarily detain civilians arrived in the country's second-...

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Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program

Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to "prioritize and broadly advertise" opportunities troops who are nearing separation or retirement from the military have with either Customs and Border Protection or…

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Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech

Ahead of President Donald Trump's rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised alarms over a vendor planning to sell Trump-branded merchandise on site.

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Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet

According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but...

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