The festival brought U.S. service members together with residents of nearby Gotemba and Japanese troops for nine hours of festivities.
Sailors assigned to the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Yokosuka, Japan, joined U.S. and Japanese military, government, medical and emergency response organizations for Exercise Big Rescue Kanagawa 2026.
U.S. troops are training to recapture islands during a 15-nation exercise that includes amphibious assaults, airborne operations and live-fire drills.
The move to call off the high-profile event was communicated in June, South Korea said. President Trump shortened another joint military exercise earlier this month.
Tonight on "Jesse Weber Live": Millions of people across the Midwest are bracing for more storms and potential flash flooding. Many are in areas already devastated by catastrophic flooding. We'll take you to a town inundated by this week's floodwaters. Plus, new concerns about the welfare of U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Reports allege poor living conditions on the aircraft carrier amid its lengthy deployment in the Middle East. An expert military panel joins Jesse to discuss. And with a jury now seated in the Tupac Shakur murder trial, we're joined by a filmmaker who spent years investigating the case and advocating for the trial to move forward. Also, major developments in another legal case we're following:…
AI:The Tupac Shakur murder trial has reached a major milestone with the official seating of a jury, ending decades of investigation delays and controversy. A filmmaker who spent years investigating the homicide reacted to the development, pushing for long-awaited accountability in the case. Additionally, concerns are mounting regarding reports of substandard living conditions for U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln during its deployment in the Middle East, while legal eyes remain fixed on Luigi Mangione as he faces potential plea negotiations with federal prosecutors.Open
Russia released American Marine veteran Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds after more than four years of disputed imprisonment, a unilateral move secured by President Trump with no prisoner exchange and no concessions. Gilman, 32, a Massachusetts teacher and former Marine, left Russian custody on Tuesday after spending 47 days in what his advocates described as […] The post Russia frees gravely ill Marine veteran Robert Gilman after Trump intervenes with Putin appeared first on American Almanac .
Russia released American Marine veteran Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds after more than four years of disputed imprisonment, a unilateral move secured by President Trump with no prisoner exchange and no concessions. Gilman, 32, a Massachusetts teacher and former Marine, left Russian custody on Tuesday after spending 47 days in what his advocates described as "a dissociative stupor," hooked up to a feeding tube and handcuffed to a hospital bed. He was en route to a U.S. military hospital in Texas for medical and psychological treatment, with Trump posting that Gilman would first arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Tuesday evening. Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, the group that had been working to…Open
Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. The post Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? appeared first on The American Conservative .
War Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) In his crusade to exorcise “wokeness” from the military and imbue it with a new spirit of lethality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is waging battles on the nation’s storied war colleges and service academies. But is he fighting the wrong war? The American Conservative spoke to several former and current instructors at such institutions, plus retired senior officers who have attended these schools. All said that Hegseth’s reforms may not go far…Open
Advocates say an American imprisoned in Russia faces a worsening medical crisis and his family members are seeking urgent action to bring Robert Gilman back to the U.S. Hostage negotiator Kieran Ramsey joins Brian Entin on "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" saying the former Marine, imprisoned in Russia since 2022, is in critical condition and should be released on humanitarian grounds. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
U.S. Marines carried out their first live-fire demonstrations of first-person-view attack drones on the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea nearly shot down a U.S. Marine drone near the inter-Korean border after misidentifying it as a threat, triggering civilian shelter alerts.