The U.S. Army has developed detailed proposals for a large-scale military parade on June 14, President Donald Trump’s birthday, featuring a display of military power that includes more than 6,600 troops, over 150 military vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven Army bands, and potentially thousands of civilians, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
These internal planning files, dated April 29 and 30, have not yet been made public. They provide the Army’s latest draft for celebrating its 250th anniversary on the National Mall—an event that now may include a military parade, a vision long championed by Trump but still under discussion.
Coincidentally, the Army’s milestone falls on the same day as Trump’s 79th birthday, June 14.

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The Trump administration on Tuesday removed Doug Emhoff from his role on the governing board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., as part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the institution with appointees who more firmly back Israel.
Emhoff, the spouse of Kamala Harris, who served as vice president under the previous administration, was one of several individuals named by the Biden administration who were dismissed from the board by President Trump.

Philadelphia educator Heather Mizrachi walked into her city school district office following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, only to be greeted by a poster with the slogan, “Free Palestine.”
For Mizrachi, who is Jewish and the daughter of an Israeli, the image was jarring, to say the least. She continued to see the poster daily in her job in the central office as a curriculum specialist for middle-school students. Her complaints were ignored, she said.
“Each of those encounters left me in tears, in complete despair, and left me feeling dehumanized and undermined because of my religion and shared national origin,” the New Jersey resident told JNS via Microsoft Teams.