The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials told CNN — a dramatic show of force that will give the president a broad range of military options should he want to target drug cartels.

Vice President JD Vance met with U.S. troops stationed at a key military installation for the U.S. Air Force in England that supports heavy bomber aircraft.

Here is where Trump has chosen to deploy federal troops during his two terms. During Trump’s first term, he deployed the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border in a bid to cut down on illegal immigration. Trump’s first term, much like his second, was defined by his aggressive immigration tactics.

The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers for the right to continue serving their country.

In Washington on Wednesday night, the most visible sign of President Trump’s takeover of the local Police Department was a sobriety checkpoint operated by local and federal police agencies on a busy street near downtown, which drew a crowd of jeering protesters.

Gavin Newsom has revealed new details about how the president phoned him to throw playground taunts and boast about MAGA merch sales instead of discussing anti-ICE protests in California. Newsom said the call,

Pentagon officials had few details to offer Wednesday about the National Guard’s role in the unprecedented deployment.

WARSAW (Reuters) -Russia wants to include the topic of a reduction of NATO troops presence in any conversations about the future of Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters on Wednesday.