The United States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2019.

A U.S. military helicopter flying over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted in the Caribbean Sea. American officials have suggested that they intend to seize another ship, Bella 1, which they are currently tracking.

The strike, conducted at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, had targeted a boat sailing along a “known narco-trafficking route” in the eastern Pacific.

A crane lifting a piece of the wreckage of an American Airlines jet from the Potomac River in February.

An oil tanker anchored near the Cardón Refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2021.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth briefed senators on Tuesday.

Pentagon reporters have had access to the building’s corridors for decades.

President Trump visiting sailors aboard the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of Norfolk, Va., on Sunday.

Department of Homeland Security agents, police officers and U.S. Border Patrol Agents stand guard at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., on Thursday.

Chandler, a military spouse, recently got pregnant through in vitro fertilization, but had to shoulder high out-of-pocket costs because it was not covered through the Defense Department’s insurance plan.

A training event known as “the gauntlet” at the Citadel, the South Carolina military academy, in 2019.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gathered nearly all of the nation’s generals and admirals at Quantico, Va., on Tuesday to hear his vision for the military.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Fort Bragg in May.

Green Berets training support staff at Camp Mackall in North Carolina in May.

President Trump, together with Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense, and Marco Rubio, secretary of state, during a new conference during the NATO summit in The Hague, on Wednesday.

Iran fired missiles at an American military base in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, in response to U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.