Troops patrolling a new military zone at the U.S. border with Mexico have yet to detain anyone, even as federal charges move forward against more than two dozen migrants for illegally entering the strip of land in New Mexico.

AFN is cutting several of its radio programs and will stop offering commercially produced podcasts on its AFN Go streaming service, as part of broader Defense Department cost-saving measures, officials said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to cancel a program that promoted the participation of women in national security, claiming the initiative is “woke,” “divisive” and distracts troops.

A new task force targeting anti-Christian bias at the Department of Veterans Affairs was established after some VA facilities restricted sermon content and an Army Reserve chaplain was removed from duty for preaching about biblical text against homosexuality, the VA said.

U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen have dealt a serious blow to the militant group’s ability to keep up attacks on military and commercial ships in the Middle East, U.S. Central Command said.

More than a dozen nonprofit agencies that assist ALS patients and support research sent a letter this week to the 43 members of the bipartisan ALS Congressional Caucus after a leaked proposed budget memo from the Health and Human Services Department called for defunding the registry and a biorepository with thousands of lab specimens.

The Defense Department has agreements with 28 partner countries that allow it to override congressionally mandated “Buy American” requirements. It is unclear how those arrangements will be affected by Trump’s tariffs and whether the defense industry will be strategically carved out of the levies.

Vice President JD Vance toasted U.S. service members with a beer stein in hand during a visit to this major military transportation hub.

The task force will collect reports from employees on actions and activities that are deemed “hostile” to Christian views and values, according to an internal memo that VA Secretary Doug Collins, a pastor and Air Force Reserve chaplain, sent to employees.

A 60-foot-wide zone of New Mexico land that runs along the U.S. border with Mexico has been deemed part of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to allow troops to begin arresting people for trespassing on military territory — an escalation of the authority given active-duty service members deployed to the region to deter illegal activity.