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Defense Secretary Mark Esper listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mark Esper eases Pentagon coronavirus travel restrictions

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2020, photo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

COVID-19 vaccine ‘absolutely’ possible by the end of the year: Mark Esper

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) departs Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam on Thursday, May 21, 2020,. (Staff Sgt. Jordan E. Gilbert/U.S. Marine Corps via AP) **FILE**

USS Theodore Roosevelt returns to sea after coronavirus outbreak

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Navy grants first waiver to transgender officer to serve under their preferred gender

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the western North Pacific Ocean. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas V. Huynh/U.S. Navy via AP))

5 sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt again test positive for COVID-19

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a new section of 30-foot-high "bollard style wall" is lifted into place at a construction site south of Yuma, Ariz., near the border between the United States and Mexico. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP, File)

Lawsuit: Border wall ends dream of restoring jaguar to U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 and provide by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show the German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp Ocean City in the Arctic region. Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research says the expedition ship RV Polarstern will leave its position in the high Arctic for three weeks to rendezvous with two vessels bringing fresh supplies and crew. (Michael Gutsche/Alfred-Wegner-Institut via AP)

Pentagon Arctic strategy lacks vision to counter China, Russia, critics say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Semiconductor companies consider new plants in the U.S.

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Spc. Stevenson smokes a cigarette while waiting on the airstrip of Forward Operating Base Salerno for helicopters to air assault the soldiers of Bravo Company into Paktika Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 6, 2008, the anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy during WWII. (Mary F. Calvert / The Washington Times)

Army bases banning sale of tobacco products to troops under 21

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Virus hospitalization is new barrier to military enlistment

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this April 1, 2020, photo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Mark Esper slams Democrats’ military coronavirus response criticism

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

UFO enthusiasts call on Trump to reveal secrets after video release

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting about the coronavirus response with Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Hell of a video,’ Trump says of Navy UFO footage

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Mark Frerichs, a contractor from Illinois, poses in Iraq in this undated photo obtained from Twitter that he would include with his resume when job hunting. Frerichs was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020. Early efforts to locate him have been shrouded in mystery and his disappearance has been the subject of minimal public discussion by the U.S. government. The Associated Press has learned that in the days following Frerichs’ capture, Navy commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network while the U.S. intelligence community tried to track the cellphones of Frerich and his captors. (Twitter via AP)

SEALs tried to locate U.S. citizen taken by Afghan militants

By James Laporta and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pentagon rebuts Democratic senators’ complaints over coronavirus response

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

U.S. servicemen prepare to fire AT4 light anti-armour weapon during joint military exercises at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, May 14, 2016. About 1,300 U.S., British and Georgian troops started this week conducting joint exercises aimed at training the former Soviet republic's military for participation in the NATO Response Force. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Pentagon to backfill money diverted to build border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

GULF OF ALASKA (May 14, 2019) An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the “Blue Diamonds” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 146 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). (U.S. Navy photo.)

U.S. Navy releases three ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ videos

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a new section of 30-foot-high "bollard style wall" is lifted into place at a construction site south of Yuma, Ariz., near the border between the United States and Mexico. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP, File)

Border wall plans reduced as costs exceed $15 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this April 4, 2019 photo, provided by the U.S. Army, a mobile surveillance camera system manned by soldiers monitors a sector near the Presidio Border Patrol Station at Presidio, Texas. The Trump administration has been quietly adding military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic despite the fact fewer people appear to be crossing illegally. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show the Department of Defense at the request of the Department of Homeland Security sent 60 mobile surveillance cameras in addition to 540 more troops to the southwest border this month. (Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf/U.S. Army via AP)

US adds cameras at Mexico border despite drop in crossings

By JAMES LAPORTA and JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

A B-2 Spirit multi-role bomber conducts air refueling operations with a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Pacific. The B-2 Spirit will be included in upcoming modernization planning being conducted by the Pentagon. (Department of Defense)

Crippled by coronavirus: Pentagon anticipates three-month delay on big projects

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times