“This decision was not made lightly, nor does it in any way reflect on the respect and admiration we feel for all our LGBTQ+ personnel,” a Pentagon spokesman said.
Five people were killed and at least 55 more were injured over the weekend, a week after three people died and 34 others were wounded over the Memorial Day weekend.
"I feel really grateful now that I have it because I fought for it, [my parents] fought for it real hard, and it just means the world to me," Ever Lopez said.
The group was waiting to cross the road when a man in a black pickup truck jumped the curb and hit five people from the same family in London, Ontario.
A graduation party was wrapping up at a strip mall when two vehicles pulled into the parking lot and people inside began firing on the crowd, Miami-Dade police said. NBC News' Catie Beck reports.
Allegheny County, Pa., District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. has come under mounting criticism and faced calls to resign from elected officials and criminal justice advocates.
"Our community is consistently under attack, and when I saw the chairwoman's tweet, I had to say something," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband said on MSNBC.