Military personnel will recieve paychecks, administration ordered to pay SNAP benefits amid government shutdown

Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising military paychecks but not SNAP funds.

Military will be paid on Oct. 31 after officials pull $5.3B from 3 accounts

Military members' pay has remained in limbo throughout the government shutdown. Here's what we know about the Oct. 31 ...

Trump administration says members of the military will get paid Friday despite the government shutdown

If the paychecks are delivered, it would be the second time the White House has avoided missing a pay period for troops ...

Why is Trump prioritising white South Africans as he slashes refugee admissions to historic low?

President Donald Trump has set the lowest refugee ceiling in US history — 7,500 for fiscal year 2026 — while prioritising ...
The Fayetteville Observer

DOD is considering commissary privatization. What could that mean for Fort Bragg shoppers?

The Defense Commissary Agency is exploring the possibility of privatizing its grocery store operations. The agency is seeking information from commercial grocers to see if they can operate ...
New Atlas

These 16-ton self-driving cargo trucks are joining the US Army

Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense is upgrading its lauded Palletized Load System (PLS) vehicles for transporting cargo across battlefields with the ability to drive themselves – providing a critical ...
People

First Grade Teacher Speaks Out After Video of Her Singing 'These Are My Private Parts' Song to Students Goes Viral

“For me, as long as I’m a teacher, I have vowed that I will be the teacher that I have never had growing up,” Waterboer says in a viral TikTok clip One teacher is taking the internet by storm with a ...
The Aviationist

Army Reserve Aviation Command Completes Flying Operations, Slashed as Part of Army Reprioritization

Each Army Reserve Aviation Command unit’s ‘final mission’ put as many aircraft in the air as possible in California, Kansas, and Texas as one last opportunity to overfly the communities where most of ...
CNN

Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims to generals and admirals, some about the military

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in a rambling Tuesday speech to hundreds of generals and admirals who were summoned to a military base in Virginia to listen to addresses by the ...
Times Union

Duty Calls: Air National Guard airman advances to colonel

James Vendetti, a Rotterdam resident who began his military career as an Army private, has been promoted to colonel while serving with the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton ...
Stars and Stripes

Army closes Training and Doctrine Command to make way for merger with Futures Command

The Army Training and Doctrine Command cased its flag Friday at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., to close out 52 years of building the framework that shapes soldiers to fight on the ever-evolving ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Military aircraft to fly over Lawrence on Friday, Saturday as part of KU game festivities

A T-38 Talon is pictured in this AdobeStock photo. A team of four supersonic jets from an U.S. Air Force base in Texas will fly over Lawrence on Friday and Saturday as part of pregame festivities for ...