"The Stringer" director "a little surprised" by post-premiere blowback

The parade was the spectacle event Trump had long wanted. It also helped sparked the largest mass opposition to him since his inauguration 145 days earlier.

Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm whose contracts with the federal government are expanding, and Coinbase, a cryptocurrency firm that donated to the president’s inauguration, also sponsored the event. Oracle, a database company whose co-founder is a close friend of Mr. Trump’s, received a shout-out on Saturday as a sponsor.

The president celebrates the 250th anniversary of the US Army as demonstrators hold "No Kings" events from coast to coast.

The largest military parade in Washington in decades unfolded Saturday alongside hundreds of protests against it, and its chief organizer

President Donald Trump praised the United States Army as the “greatest, fiercest and bravest fighting force” at the conclusion of a grand display of military might in the nation’s capital Saturday as the Army celebrated its 250th birthday with a parade.

More than 6,000 soldiers participated in the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. — including the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets.

Ths Israeli air force says it struck and destroyed surface-to-surface missile production sites, detection radar sites, and surface-to-air missile launchers in Tehran. Ths Israeli military has carried out waves of strikes in Iran since early Friday.

Guinea’s military junta has created a new institution that will be responsible for managing elections, including a constitutional referendum in September and the general and presidential elections set for December.

The parade must go on, and the Army sidestepped a major crisis of image and messaging. The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief.