Author: Courtney Kube

Sen. Cory Booker is trying to stop the Pentagon from naming an aircraft carrier after Donald Trump instead of a Black war hero from the 1940s.

The ship, which supported the U.S. war with Iran, was at sea for nearly 300 days without a port call.

WASHINGTON — U.S. military leaders are divided on whether President Donald Trump should get involved with the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to two U.S. officials.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the war with Iran is the cause of more than one-third of the increase in inflation this year and that it will cause further increases in the first quarter of next year, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006, is scheduled to go on trial in June 2028.

The USS Doris Miller would be the first aircraft carrier named after a Black and an enlisted sailor. The decision to name the carrier after Miller was made during Trump’s first term.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way back home following an extended nine-month deployment, a U.S. official told NBC News on Thursday.