Burke, once the second-highest ranking leader in the Navy, was charged by prosecutors last year on allegations that he directed a lucrative Navy contract to an executive training company, Next Jump, in 2021 while serving as a four-star admiral.
The deal was made after a number of contract talks in recent weeks between the Groton-based company and the UAW union, which represents the marine drafters, a group of employees focused on submarine design.
With less than two weeks until graduation, nine senior Air Force Academy soccer players and their families are unsure if they will march with their classmates after an alleged hazing incident that most reportedly did not witness.
Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities said they landed a Black Hawk helicopter in a mountain pasture on a private ranch to take several elk antlers before flying away.
New military zones in that state and Texas are part of the administration’s effort to reduce border crossings by snaring migrants with new criminal charges.
Staff Sgt. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, 27, is facing one federal count each of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
DHS asked for the troops to help carry out President Donald Trump’s “mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.