Helene Cooper

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Tim Balk |Helene Cooper

The parade is scheduled for June 14, the date of the Army's 250th anniversary, and is billed as the "Army's birthday celebration." President Trump turns 79 that day. The military parade planned for next month could cost up to $45 million and is expected to include up to two dozen M1 Abrams tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, two defense officials said Thursday.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Eric Schmitt |Helene Cooper |Adriana Zehbrauskas

The Pentagon has sent thousands of troops, spy planes and even two warships to surveil the land and coasts. President Trump is breaking with his predecessors' practice of mostly limiting deployments along the U.S.-Mexico border to small numbers of active-duty soldiers and reservists. The Pentagon has sent thousands of troops, spy planes and even two warships to surveil the land and coasts.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Helene Cooper |Greg Jaffe |Jonathan Swan |Eric Schmitt

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When he approved a campaign to reopen shipping in the Red Sea by bombing the Houthi militant group into submission, President Donald Trump wanted to see results within 30 days of the initial strikes two months ago. By day 31, Trump, ever cautious of drawn-out military entanglements in the Middle East, demanded a progress report, according to administration officials.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Helene Cooper |Greg Jaffe |Jonathan Swan |Eric Schmitt |Maggie Haberman

The militant group in Yemen was still firing at ships and shooting down drones, while U.S. forces were burning through munitions. President Trump has never bought into long-running military entanglements in the Middle East. Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times When he approved a campaign to reopen shipping in the Red Sea by bombing the Houthi militant group into submission, President Trump wanted to see results within 30 days of the initial strikes two months ago.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christiaan Triebert |Julian Barnes |Helene Cooper |Greg Jaffe

Revelations about the defense secretary's passwords came after he discussed details of planned U.S. airstrikes on a messaging app. Some of the passwords that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to register for websites were exposed in cyberattacks on those sites and are available on the internet, raising new questions about his use of personal devices to communicate military information. Mr. Hegseth did not appear to use those passwords for sensitive accounts, like banking.