Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Army Secretary Christine Wormuth confirmed the military's new stance in a statement filed in federal court on Friday.
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed hasn’t taken over as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee yet, but he’s already facing division within the panel and his party over the issue of President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Pentagon.
Despite President Trump's veto threat, Democrats moved to rename military bases named after Confederate officers in an annual defense policy measure that has passed every year since the Kennedy administration.
A federal appeals court on Friday revived a House challenge of President Donald Trump’s use of Defense Department money to build a border wall after Democrats refused to provide funding he requested.
A bomb squad and military experts had to be called to a northeastern Nebraska museum after live military ordnance — including a World War II grenade and two artillery shells — were found in a museum storeroom, officials said.
House Democrats called for an end to the ban on transgender military service in a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Attorney General William Barr.