Remains of 55 of the 67 victims have been recovered, officials said on Sunday as they prepared to lift the wreckage of the jet out of the Potomac River on Monday.

Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach’s family issued a statement that described her many achievements in the service.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “multiple operatives” had been killed in remote mountains in the country’s north.

The government is releasing photos and videos to promote President Trump’s immigration agenda, including footage of troops at the border and close-up shots of shackled immigrants.

In a briefing that recalled his most extreme first term remarks, President Trump said without any evidence that diversity initiatives caused the midair collision.

Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got angry.

A halt in foreign aid may undermine American organizations’ support for forces that guard the two largest camps holding Islamic State members and their families.

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

“Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.

“Those who do not comply will no longer work here,” Pete Hegseth said in a handwritten notice saying diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives were not welcome at the Pentagon.

The new defense secretary’s goals run counter to the military’s apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America.

After being sworn-in by Vice President JD Vance, the Pentagon’s new leader addressed the Defense Department’s three million employees.

In 2017, Betsy DeVos barely survived her confirmation vote to become President Trump’s secretary of education.

The Department of Defense said this week that it would provide planes for deportation flights.

With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one more. If he is confirmed, it is likely to be by the smallest margin for that post in modern times.

For the last 50 years, almost every nominee to lead the Pentagon has been a consensus pick who drew lopsided margins of support in the Senate. Pete Hegseth’s nomination has been a notable exception.

The settlement’s existence after a 2017 accusation had been documented before the defense secretary nominee’s confirmation hearing this month, but the amount had not been known publicly.

From national security to home insurance, the president has quickly changed America’s climate adaptation policies in important ways.

The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.