Citing the potential for more “senseless carnage” in the future, three major U.S. cities filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense demanding the military fix the heavily flawed ways it reports criminal convictions to background check databases for potential gun buyers.

The Pentagon has released its official memo detailing the specifics of how it will accommodate trans people who wish to serve in the U.S. military.

Despite the more than 150 years that have passed since the Confederate Army fought for—and lost—the right to own other human beings as property, the U.S. military insisted this week that removing the name of several Southern generals from an active base in Brooklyn would nevertheless be against “the spirit of…