The Army‘s chief of staff announced Tuesday that the service’s top civilian leader will leave his post at noon Wednesday as President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office. “Secretary Ryan McCarthy is the best of the best; he’s been a great boss, a great leader, a great partner,” Gen. James McConville said Tuesday at an …
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NEW YORK — A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on charges that he plotted to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said Tuesday. Cole James Bridges of Stow, Ohio, was in custody on charges of attempted material support of a terrorist organization …
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A retired Army sergeant major who ran the nation’s enlisted National Guard association says “it’s paranoia” and a “serious distrust of our nation’s military” for FBI vetting of inaugural security troops on suspicion of extremist ties. “I think it’s paranoia basically to vet members of the National Guard,” Frank Yoakum told The Washington Times. “National …
An Army Reserve sergeant and alleged white supremacist who had secret clearance for contract work at a Navy weapons station has been arrested on multiple charges stemming from the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, according to federal authorities. A criminal complaint filed Friday by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in U.S. District Court in …
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Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s pick to lead Homeland Security in the new administration, acknowledged Tuesday that the so-called “cages” where migrant children were held on the border were first erected under President Barack Obama. Mr. Mayorkas was deputy secretary at Homeland Security during the 2014 and 2015 border surges, when the chain-link enclosures …
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