President Donald Trump told top military brass that the US is fighting an "invasion from within," as he used a highly unusual gathering of officers stationed around the world to deliver a largely political speech that highlighted border security and rooting out "woke" culture. "After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country," Trump said on Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. "It's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control," he added.
The FBI said it recovered classified documents and files marked "secret" from the office of Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton. Agents carried out a sweep of the Washington D.C. office of Bolton, now a vocal Trump critic and nemesis of the president, the same day it carried out an early morning raid at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on Aug. 22. read more
Former South Carolina state lawmaker Robert John "RJ" May III has agreed to plead guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material. Prosecutors say May used the screen name "joebidennnn69 on the social media site Kik as he exchanged 220 images of very young children being abused over a period of five days in spring 2024. The 38-year-old Republican, who is married with two children, served the 88th District from November 2020 until his resignation last month. He faces 20 years in prison for each of the five counts with which he is charged. In addition, he must register as a sex offender and must pay a fine that could be as high as $250,000.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler while addressing the United Nations General Assembly. "The old societies of Europe are collapsing, and the United States is applauding its new Hitler. It's not listening to its own young people, or its older people who died in the battlefields of Europe, fighting against Hitler and against his criminal ideology. Today, the same thing is being done as Hitler did, building concentration camps for migrants, and it's stated that migrants are of an inferior race, and they blame them just like Hitler blamed the Jews. They call them drug traffickers and thieves."
The protest artwork had been placed on the east side of the mall near the U.S. Capitol building Tuesday, and there was a permit for it to remain until Sunday. read more
More: Trump said he was ready to fire officials who he doesn't like, echoing his Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, who was originally slated to be the sole keynote speaker at the event.
"If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room," Trump said to some laughter from the crowd of hundreds " nearly all uniformed military brass. "Of course, there goes your rank. There goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, OK? Because we're all on the same team."