Troops

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from […]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Military troops and other defense personnel at sensitive bases or certain high-risk warzone areas won’t be allowed to use fitness-tracker or cellphone applications that can reveal their location, according to a new Pentagon order. The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, stops short of banning the fitness trackers or other electronic […]

Comedians Cocoa Brown, Sherri Shepherd, and Kym Whitley know each other all too well. Well enough that they can fight each others battles when the other isn’t there to do it. Fights like cussing out one of their baby daddies for more child support. “Coming from you it just comes off like you’re bitter and […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans on Tuesday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s harsh words for Pakistan in a speech outlining his strategy for the war-torn country that critics said offered little in the way of details and ruled out nation-building. Trump said U.S. troops had a single-point agenda and that was to eliminate extremist fighters. […]