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In the final month of his presidency, Donald Trump signed off on key parts of an extensive secret Pentagon campaign to conduct sabotage, propaganda and other psychological and information operations in Iran, according to former senior officials who served in his administration.

The helicopter, part of a 23-aircraft program costing $5 billion, was supposed to be declared ready for operations in July, per Bloomberg.

The Defense Logistics Agency coordinates the Pentagon's combat supply chain. In addition, DLA oversees the delivery of traditional holiday meals to U.S. troops.

The Pentagon plans to give cloud contracts to multiple providers, rather than giving out a single contract to Microsoft, a deal that was later scrapped.

An independent review has concluded that the Defense Department and its top leaders acted appropriately before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The investigation’s findings bring new scrutiny to Walker, who earlier this year was lauded for his candor in publicly recounting how dysfunction at the Pentagon stalled the National Guard’s response as supporters of President Donald Trump brutalized police and panicked lawmakers pleaded for help. Speaking at a joint Senate hearing on March 3, Walker recalled having a quick reaction force (QRF) geared up and said he was frustrated by the speed at which senior defense officials were responding. He told senators it was 5:08 p.m. when he received approval to deploy.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. government is unsure why Russian President Vladimir Putin is building up military forces near the border with eastern Ukraine.

The Russian military destroyed a defunct satellite on Monday, causing astronauts to shelter on the International Space Station as the debris cloud passed by.

Video published by Iranian media appeared to show the helicopter flying low and coming close to the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship.

The Pentagon on Monday accused Iran of “unsafe and unprofessional” conduct by a naval helicopter that it said flew within about 25 yards of a U.S. Navy ship and circled it three times in the Gulf of Oman. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the Iranian helicopter circled the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, three times and at one point flew as low as 10 feet off the surface of the water. The U.S. Navy periodically has reported what it characterizes as unsafe and unprofessional encounters with Iran naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

An observant Livermore resident gave police a tip that busted up a car burglary ring with 30 suspects.

Economists say inflation will force millions of Americans to pay higher prices during the holiday season this year. Associated Press writer Paul Wiseman joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss more.

The footage shows a waterspout churning off Ocean Grove, New Jersey. (Credit: Tim Milway via Storyful)

Pouring money into unproven technologies is the wrong way to protect against emerging threats.

In an analysis of almost 450 military special victims cases filed between 2018 to 2020, the Department of Defense's inspector general found that 64% did not have properly trained prosecutors assigned to them.

In New Jersey, incumbent Governor Phil Murphy narrowly won reelection, CBS News projected Wednesday.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff in a statement said he is unconvinced the summary of the investigation "provides for real accountability."

An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action.

The Pentagon now estimates China will have 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 — more than double its estimates from last year.

The Pentagon says China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than U.S. officials predicted just a year ago.

You can’t even fight a social network without a social network.

Eighty-two percent of Reservists and Guardsmen say they have received at least one shot.

Eighty-two percent of Reservists and Guardsmen say they have received at least one shot.

Eighty-two percent of Reservists and Guardsmen say they have received at least one shot.

Experts say that Bangladesh, an impoverished delta nation of 170 million people is set for the biggest displacement in human history -- due to climate change. Global sea level has gone up 20 centimetres since 1900, and could rise two to four times that much by the end of this century depending on how quickly humanity draws down carbon pollution, according to the UN climate science panel.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks says the effects of climate change are already being felt. Storms have damaged U.S. bases and rising seas could submerge U.S. installations in the Pacific.

The Pentagon has denied accusations of a cover-up, pointing to public comments and a press statement on the incident.

U.S. Central Command said that early indications did not reveal any civilian casualties as a result of the strike.

The U.S. and China are rushing to develop hypersonic weapons. Critics worry it's turning into a race without end.

The Aug. 29 U.S. drone strike was supposed to target ISIS-K members, but the attack killed 10 Afghan civilians. Now those victims' families will get unspecified condolence payments.

The State Department is trying to relocate the some of the family members to the United States. Ten people, including seven children, were killed in the blast.

The U.S. Defense Department says it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.

Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost has became only the second woman to lead one of the Pentagon’s 11 so-called combatant commands that spearhead the military’s worldwide operations.

Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost on Friday became only the second woman to lead one of the Pentagon's 11 so-called combatant commands, the multi-service organizations that spearhead U.S. military operations around the world. At a change-of-command ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin applauded Van Ovost's historic rise to lead U.S. Transportation Command. “We need every Jackie Van Ovost we can get,” Austin, a retired Army general, said.

The special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and former president Donald Trump’s role in it is only as good as the documents it can get and the people it can talk to. That's becoming a problem for it.

Nicolas Chaillan, the US Air Force's chief software officer, quit in September, citing insufficient investment in guarding from Chinese attacks.

A new Pentagon climate plan calls for incorporating the realities of a hotter, harsher Earth at every level in the U.S. military.

There are currently about 900 U.S. soldiers there and according to the Pentagon, they are there to help in the fight against ISIS.

There are currently about 900 U.S. soldiers there and according to the Pentagon, they are there to help in the fight against ISIS.

New Defense Department guidance says all civilian workers must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Nov. 22.

The Supreme Court says it will not get involved in a lawsuit over a disputed Pentagon cloud computing contract, a decision that follows the contract’s cancellation earlier this year.

The report found that service members who died by suicide are primarily enlisted, male and under 30 years of age.

The nation's top military officials testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying they warned both President Trump and President Biden against pulling troops out of the country. David Martin reports.

The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan goes under the microscope on Tuesday as Pentagon leaders testify before the lawmakers.

Plans include establishing special-victim prosecutors, bringing on sexual assault prevention workers and hiring response coordinators and advocates.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a senior-level review of the Central Command investigation that determined that 10 Afghan civilians were mistakenly killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on Aug. 29.

DEL RIO, Texas — The Biden administration has requested that the Pentagon send military forces to the southern border to get control of the deteriorating situation, according to the secretary of Homeland Security.

The bottles were discovered on a Boeing 747-8 under construction in San Antonio, Texas, earlier in September, the WSJ said.

The Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their family, including seven children, on the eve of the U.S. pullout from the country, say that an apology is not enough

The top U.S. military officer is in Greece meeting with NATO counterparts this weekend, and Army Gen. Mark Milley is hoping to forge more basing, intelligence-sharing and other agreements to prevent terrorist groups from regrouping in Afghanistan, and threatening America and the region.

Milley has been tight-lipped in response to a new report on his assurances to China, while pointing to his upcoming Sept. 28 testimony. Here's what that testimony should focus upon.

An investigation by U.S. Central Command determined that the August 29 strike in Kabul killed an innocent aid worker and as many as nine of his family members.

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said the vehicle was struck "in the earnest belief" that the targeted vehicle posed an imminent threat.

Zamarai Ahmadi, a longtime aid worker for a U.S.-based group, was hauling water cans that military analysts mistook for explosives, according to officials and video obtained by The Washington Post and others.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been under fire for private conversations in the closing months of the Trump administration.

Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo that a number of defense staff have reported "sudden and troubling sensory events."

The "Justice forJ6" rally on Saturday, organized by an ex-campaign staffer for former President Donald Trump, is expected to draw about 700 people, DHS said.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley called his Chinese counterpart twice to reassure Beijing that the United States would not attack.

The Afghan man who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month was an enthusiastic longtime employee at an American humanitarian organization.

In the hours after the September 11 attacks, the US military began planning what remains the longest air assault ever conducted by US forces.

There is already evidence the terror group's militants are returning to Afghanistan, says CIA deputy director David Cohen.

A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors.

"They climbed to rise. To rise to the cries 1000 feet above them, to rise to the defense of the firefighter beside them, to rise beyond duty to a place of selfless devotion."

Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land held a special ceremony on Friday to honor victims of the September 11 attacks, including one of their own. Naval Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Caballero was a 1998 graduate of the school. He was working at the Pentagon as an Electronics Technician at the time of the attacks.

A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but doesn't provide proof that senior kingdom officials were complicit in the plot.

President Joe Biden has paid tribute at three hallowed places of grief and remembrance to honor the lives lost two decades ago in the 9/11 terror attacks.

As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security - and only about a third believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are heading to the Persian Gulf to begin managing a transition to post-Afghan war relationships with traditional allies in the Middle East and beyond who were partners in the failed war against the Taliban and the concluding evacuation.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has agreed to restart 16 defense advisory boards, after halting activity by all the Pentagon panels in February and essentially purging a number of members who were appointed in the final days of the Trump administration.

The U.S. war in Afghanistan is in its final hours as the military flew more desperate evacuees out of the Afghan capital.

President Joe Biden is warning that it's “highly likely” an Islamic State affiliate will try another attack in Afghanistan.

The United States military struck back at the Islamic State in Afghanistan on Saturday, acting on President Joe Biden's vow to hit the extremists in retaliation for a suicide bombing claimed by IS that killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at Kabul airport Thursday.

Military service members must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says in a memo Wednesday, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.”.

U.S. President Joe Biden says he will stick with his Aug. 31 deadline for finishing a U.S.-led evacuation of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others.

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The Pentagon says it will require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval.

For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal.

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage for civilians trying to leave Afghanistan.

Just weeks before the U.S. military is scheduled to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is rushing 3,000 fresh troops to the Kabul airport to help with a partial evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month.

A former Army lawyer says his firm has received calls from hundreds of service members since President Joe Biden asked the Pentagon to look at adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the shots troops are required to get.

Investigators say the loss of braking power on a rain-soaked flooded runway caused a plane chartered by the Pentagon to slide into a Florida river in 2019.

Federal investigators are digging into the background of a Georgia man who officials say fatally stabbed a Pentagon police officer at a transit station outside the building before being shot and killed himself.

The Pentagon says one of its police officers has died after being stabbed during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene.

Two Navy sailors have died due to complications from COVID-19, amid growing concerns about the deadly delta variant and new federal guidance to increase mask use.

Israel says it will begin seizing cryptocurrency accounts used by the Palestinian Hamas group to raise money for its armed wing.

The Pentagon says it's canceled a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. military will allow Naval Academy graduate Cameron Kinley to pursue a career in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

U.S. forces have vacated Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years, bringing the U.S. military closer to a final withdrawal that the Pentagon says will be completed by late August.

The Defense Department says the U.S. military conducted airstrikes against what it says were “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria.

U.S. forces in Syria came under rocket attack Monday, with no reported casualties, one day after U.S. warplanes conducted airstrikes against what the Pentagon called “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria.

U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that about 650 U.S. troops are expected to be kept in Afghanistan to provide security for the American diplomatic presence after the Pentagon completes its military withdrawal, which is set to be largely done in the next two weeks.

President Joe Biden has promised Afghanistan’s top leaders a “sustained” partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the United States’ longest war amid escalating Taliban violence.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on the brink of success in her yearslong campaign to get sexual assault cases removed from the military chain of command.

Top Pentagon leaders say there is a “medium” chance that extremist groups in Afghanistan will present a threat to the U.S. homeland within two years of the American military departure.

A top Army leader is defending the Pentagon’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

America’s popular cookie is bringing people together, and hopes to do the same beyond planet Earth.

The Associated Press has learned that leaders of the military services have expressed reservations to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about removing sexual assault cases from the chain of command.

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased by a very small amount in 2020.

President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is defending his response to the attack.