The Latest Breaking News from the Defense Department

The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place

Defense Department faces potential firings of probationary civilian employees, senior military leaders, and transgender service members.

As the Trump administration works on pledges to crack down on illegal immigration, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government

The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order

“The tools to change this—most notably software and artificial intelligence—lie at hand.”

Elon Musk will investigate Pentagon spending at Donald Trump's direction after the Defense Department failed its seventh audit.

Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how prosecutors allege he and others interacted with the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks

The New York Times, NBC News and National Public Radio will rotate each year with the New York Post, Breitbart and One America News Network. HuffPost and Politico will also swap

The Trump White House has issued a proclamation recognizing February as Black History Month around the same time the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity months dead.”

A new memo says the Defense Department will no longer reimburse service members

The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace