” to help end the war.

Under the plans, NATO would aim to have up to 300,000 troops ready to move to its eastern flank within 30 days, although experts suggest the allies would struggle to muster those kinds of numbers.The member countries are assigned roles in defending NATO territory across three major zones — the high north and Atlantic area, a zone north of the Alps, and another in southern Europe.

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Thegeneration, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches ofwhere so much blood was spilled 81 years ago.

veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending.In what they acknowledge may be one of their last hurrahs, a group of nearly two dozen veterans who served in Europe and the Pacific is commemorating the fallen and getting rock-star treatment this week in Normandy — the first patch of mainland France that Allied forces liberated with the June 6, 1944,

of ships and planes the world had known.

On what became known as “Republican leaders in Congress, determined to muscle the sweeping package forward, had little to say after the analysis released Wednesday by

. GOP senators spent more than an hour at the White House in what they called a robust afternoon discussion with Trump.“We’re committed to making a law that will make the lives of the American people better,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said afterward. He vowed to “get this done one way or another.”

But Democrats angling to halt the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named after the president’s own catchphrase, piled on with relentless opposition.“In the words of Elon Musk, this bill is a ‘disgusting abomination,’” said Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, reviving