The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., known as C.Q., was only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job.
The general made an impression in 2018 when he said, according to the president, that the Islamic State could be defeated in a week.Dan Caine, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, most recently served as an associate director for military affairs at the C.I.A. from 2021 to 2024.
The firings are the first of what is expected to be a vast wave of layoffs by the Pentagon.
Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, during a media conference in Perth, Australia, in July 2024.
President Trump on Friday continued to bash President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and pressure him for mineral rights.A truck bringing partly-refined titanium ore to a factory for further refining at a mine east of Kyiv in June. In addition to titanium, Ukraine has large reserves of graphite and l
The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands.Domodedovo Airport, in Moscow, is Russia’s largest airport still in private hands.
DNA testing had found that remains returned a day earlier purportedly of Ms. Bibas, a dead Israeli hostage, were in fact not hers, stirring outrage in Israel.A poster showing Shiri Bibas in Jerusalem on Friday.
Earlier this month, the president said he favored taking control of Gaza and displacing the Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave. But Egypt and Jordan flatly rejected cooperating.The Al-Sikka area of northern Gaza, east of Jabaliya, last week. Most of the Gaza Strip has been leve
The court’s order indicated that it may return to the issue as soon as next week, when a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set to expire.The Supreme Court split in its ruling, with two liberal justices noting that they would have rejected the Trump administration’s request outright and tw
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.Elon Musk has been a central figure in the first month of the Trump administration.
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies say they cannot replace the United States.An H.I.V. clinic in Kampala, Uganda, on Monday.
A gesture by Stephen Bannon at CPAC, outside Washington, echoed a move by Elon Musk and prompted the president of France’s far-right National Rally to say it had evoked “Nazi ideology.”Stephen K. Bannon did not explain his gesture on Thursday, which some observers likened to a Nazi salute.
Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.Workers spreading coffee beans at a farm in Honduras. The history of coffee is in no small measure the story of exploitation in pursuit of expanding supplies to drive prices lower.
The uncertain reaction to Xi Jinping’s display of warmth made sense: Executives are eager for a reset after years in the cold but ever wary of meddling.
Judge Dale E. Ho said that with Eric Adams’s lawyer and federal prosecutors agreeing to end the case, he needed to hear independent arguments.Judge Dale E. Ho said that he needed to hear from an independent voice to ensure an adversarial process.
Fueling a 1.7 percent decline on Friday was an unexpected drop in the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, as Americans worried about stubborn inflation.
Asian countries are among the most vulnerable to President Trump’s economic grievances. But they are also best placed to make deals to minimize their exposure.A garment factory in Hanoi, Vietnam. The country has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of factories moving out of China in recent years.
Mayor Karen Bass criticized Kristin Crowley for sending firefighters home before a blaze devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.Kristin Crowley, chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, was criticized for sending home 1,000 firefighters before the Palisades fire broke out last month.
A joke made by Ranveer Allahbadia, a Joe Rogan for online Indians, has brought him death threats and criminal charges.
His coal-oven pizzeria in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge has drawn patrons from New York City and beyond.
We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
Enrique Tarrio, who was pardoned for his role in the Capitol attack, had appeared with other Jan. 6 defendants outside the very building at the center of the riot that sent many of them to prison.Enrique Tarrio was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police officers on Friday and charged with assaulting a prot
She played the rapper music as a child, stood by his side during his meteoric career and navigated the legal and artistic questions that arose after his killing.Voletta Wallace in 2022. She was forced into the hip-hop spotlight after her son, the rapper the Notorious B.I.G., died at 24 in a drive-by
