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US military parade has global counterparts in democracies, monarchies and totalitarian regimesThe military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history
FILE – Cuban soldiers march during a military parade along the Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 2, 2006. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano, File)

The Army is set to celebrate 250 years with a parade that coincides with Trump’s birthdayThe massive military parade that President Donald Trump has long wanted is set to step off from the Lincoln Memorial with tanks, bands and thousands of troops
Army SSG Jason Craig, from left, Army Sgt. Blake Oakley, Army 1st Lt. Lukas Nicoloff, Army 1st Lt. Michael Ramirez and Army 1st Lt. Sean Buck lift a weighted “worm” as they practice ahead of the Army Fittest Squad competition, Friday, June 13, 2025, by the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington, during preparations for an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).

Federal judge recuses himself days before sentencing Memphis officers accused in Tyre Nichols’ deathThe judge presiding over the federal case against five former Memphis police officers convicted in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols has recused himself from further proceedings, just days before four of them were scheduled to be sentenced
FILE – A screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the Pelicans and Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

News that one man survived the Air India plane crash weighs on some other sole survivorsNews of the sole survivor of an Air India plane crash that killed the other 241 people aboard has led to endless fascination online
The debris of an airplane lie scattered after it crashed in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Judge blocks State Department from firing workers while injunction is in effectA federal judge in San Francisco has stopped Secretary of State Marco Rubio from proceeding with plans to downsize the State Department
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with reporters as Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens upon arriving at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., en route to Camp David, Md., Sunday, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Former lawyer of missing Connecticut mom’s husband pleads guilty to interfering with policeThe former lawyer and friend of the late, estranged husband of a Connecticut mother who is missing and now presumed dead has pleaded guilty to interfering with police in the case

South Carolina kills inmate serving two separate death sentences in state’s sixth execution in nine monthsSouth Carolina kills inmate serving two separate death sentences in state’s sixth execution in nine months

Minnesota’s election safeguards stopped a voter fraud scheme in its tracks, secretary of state saysTwo people have been charged with conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud in Minnesota
FILE – Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon speaks to the media about early voting at the Minnesota State Capitol, Thursday, September 19, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher, File)

Afghan man accused of planning Election Day attack in US pleads guiltyAn Afghan man in Oklahoma accused of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day in the U.S. pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide support to a terrorist organization on Friday
FILE – The criminal complaint, filed by the Justice Department, against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27,of Oklahoma City is photographed Tuesday, Oct. 8, after the FBI arrested the man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

National Weather Service issues Alaska’s first-ever heat advisoryThe first ever heat advisory has been issued in the state of Alaska
FILE – People sunbathe at Goose Lake in Anchorage, Alaska., June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)