Soldier’s TikTok videos prompt debate over shaving waiver impacts on careers

An Army master sergeant who says he lost a leadership role due partly to his beard and haircut has ignited online debate over both the impact of shaving waivers on careers and the extent to which service members can express themselves on social media.

As House Speaker heads to court with Trump, hush money witness Cohen is testifying

Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen awaits a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers on Tuesday after testimony linked their celebrity client to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign.

Retired cop meets abandoned baby he helped 23 years ago

“It was like something that was scripted for a movie. What are the odds?” said retired South Bend police Lt. Gene Eyster, of his reunion with Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, now 23, who was recently sworn in as an officer in the same police department.

South Carolina prisoner sentenced for sextortion scheme targeting service members

A South Carolina man already in state prison was handed a federal sentence for laundering money from an extortion scheme targeting service members, one of whom died by suicide at his urging, according to authorities.

Pentagon lax in following transfer policy for sexual assault victims, IG says

The U.S. military is doing a poor job of expediting sexual assault victims’ requests to transfer to other units and installations, according to the Defense Department’s watchdog agency.

Celtics Hall of Famer at USAFE clinic, 1963

Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1963: Boston Celtics forward and future Basketball Hall of Famer Tommy Heinsohn, foreground, attends a USAFE basketball clinic.

US military aircraft gets approval for rare visit to Okinawa islands near Taiwan

A U.S. military C-20G Gulfstream, reportedly set to carry the U.S. ambassador to Japan, is cleared to land on the islands of Ishigaki and Yonaguni this week, despite objections by Okinawa prefecture.

F-22 Raptor involved in latest flight line incident at Air Force base on Okinawa

A $350 million stealth fighter rolled away from its parking spot this week on an Okinawa flight line, an Air Force spokesman said.

Coast Guard orders 2 more fast-response cutters from Louisiana shipbuilder

The U.S. Coast Guard has ordered two more Sentinel-class fast-response cutters from Bollinger Shipyards, the company announced in a press release Monday.