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WASHINGTON — The Army’s $40 million parade Saturday to celebrate its 250 th anniversary is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to showcase the service, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told USA TODAY.

The courts, Congress, and the military are unlikely to resist the Trump administration’s tidal wave of illegality.

As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops ...

President Trump has changed the people around him, and he is enjoying stronger political standing than before.

President Trump’s order to send troops was based on false pretenses and is already creating the very chaos it was purportedly ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 8 The Washington Post on Musk, Trump and green subsidies Elon Musk last week slammed President Donald Trump’s ...

Guard members also almost always arrive at the request of state leaders, but in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the ...

Retired Rear Adm. Jim McPherson warned that the Trump administration and leaders in the Pentagon have politicized the ...

He gave General Milley and some others immunity from prosecution ... Trump and Milley walked from the White House across Lafayette Square, as you may remember. Milley realized it was clearly ...