“If the government doesn’t listen, we’ll take care of Roland-Garros,” Emmanuelle Cordier, president of the National Taxi Federation, warned on Saturday, just hours before a meeting with the
. There were 225,000 new recruits in the former and 200,000 in the latter, said Katie Helland, who oversees recruitment policies and programs as the Defense Department’s director of Military Accession Policy,in October. Those totals include both active and reserve troops in all five military branches, as well as about 4,800 Navy recruits from fiscal year 2024 who signed contracts, but could not be shipped out due to basic training limitations.
And the recruiting numbers for the current fiscal year 2025, which started the month before Trump’s election, havewith The Associated Press in January, then-Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the Army is on pace to bring in 61,000 young people by the end of the fiscal year in September and will have more than 20,000 additional young people signed up in the delayed entry program for 2026. It will be the Army’s second straight year of meeting its enlistment goals.“What’s really remarkable is the first quarter contracts that we have signed are the highest rate in the last 10 years,” Wormuth said. “We are going like gangbusters, which is terrific.”
Some on social media have given Trump and Hegseth sole credit for the improving numbers, this week citing a Fox News graphic that aired Tuesday during awith Hegseth. The graphic compared cumulative recruitment numbers for the first two months of the current fiscal year with those of the first five months.
“Holy smokes. Military recruitment is THROUGH THE ROOF,” reads one X post sharing the Fox graphic. “Absolutely smashing every goal. This is what happens when you have strong leadership.”
Kuzminski noted there’s no data to back up whether Trump’s election had been a factor in the most recent increase in recruiting numbers.Director Julia Ducournau poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Alpha’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
For more coverage of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, visitSAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, died at 81 from leukemia, his family said Friday. Local media reported he died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years.
Salgado’s style is marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. He was recently experiencing undisclosed health problems.“Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world,” Salgado’s family said in a statement.