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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has resigned to take the top post at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Wilson, a former member of Congress, submitted her resignation Friday morning, the Air Force confirmed in a statement. Her resignation will be effective May 31.
The UT System Board of Regents selected Wilson as the only finalist to be the next president of the University of Texas at El Paso on Friday.
Officially out of the White House, former chief of staff John Kelly spoke freely Wednesday about the Trump administration and its policies.
Speaking at Duke University, Kelly most notably diverged from his former boss on matters of immigration.
Kelly made clear that he does not agree with the administration’s decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, saying “we don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea.” While Kelly said there are areas where a border wall would in fact be effective, he called a border wall spanning the entire U.S.-Mexico border a “waste of money.”
The last injunction blocking President Trump’s transgender military ban from taking effect was lifted by a federal judge Thursday, moving the administration closer to being able to enforce the policy.
In a six-page order issued on Thursday, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge George Russell III wrote that he was lifting his injunction because “the court is bound by the Supreme Court’s decision to stay the preliminary injunctions in their
Though courts have now ruled to lift all four injunctions that had been placed on the policy, advocates for transgender troops say one remains in effect do to a stipulation in that court’s ruling.entirety."
A federal judge in Texas has declared that the all-male military draft is unconstitutional, ruling that "the time has passed" for a debate on whether women belong in the military.
The decision deals the biggest legal blow to the Selective Service System since the Supreme Court upheld the draft in 1981. In Rostker v. Goldberg, the court ruled that the male-only draft was "fully justified" because women were ineligible for combat roles.
Federal prosecutors revealed charges on Wednesday that a former Air Force intelligence officer had revealed defense secrets and the identity of at least one U.S. intelligence officer to the Iranian government.
Monica E. Witt was named in an indictment unsealed Wednesday, which also charged four Iranian nationals who prosecutors alleged were involved in cyber operations against her former U.S. military colleagues. Witt is charged with espionage, conspiracy and other crimes.
Bill Schneid stood in his home office, holding a package of skin cream worth more than gold. He didn't know exactly what he had stumbled on, but he was pretty sure it was illegal.
It was March 2015. A few weeks before, Schneid, 72, a curmudgeonly private investigator, had been snooping around Southern California military bases when a Marine he knew mentioned he had a strange source of side income.
The Marine was being paid to get medicine he didn’t need. A Tennessee doctor he had never met wrote him a medicinal cream prescription, which was being filled by a pharmacy in Utah. The military covered the bill and the Marine got a cash kickback from somebody. When the creams arrived in the mail, the Marine didn't actually use them.
He was in it for the money, not the medicine, after all.
Another 3,750 troops will be sent to the southern border to help install wire barriers and to monitor crossings, officials said. The new deployment will bring the total number of active-duty troops there to around 6,000.
In a tweet on Sunday, President Trump said that "STRONG border security" is necessary in the face of "Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country."
The announcement of new troops on Sunday comes just days before Trump is expected to discuss border security measures during Tuesday's State of the Union Address.
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