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Trump has said multiple times he doesn’t believe the name “Department of Defense” is strong enough.

“It used to be called the Department of War. And it had a stronger sound … We have a Department of Defense. We’re defenders,” Trump said during an executive order signing in the Oval Office last week, surrounded by a number of his Cabinet officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In 1789, the Department of War was created by Congress to oversee the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The Navy was later separated into its own department.

After World War II, President Harry Truman put all armed forces under one organization that was renamed the Department of Defense.

“It was clear from World War II that warfare was going to be joint and combined, so it was just necessary … It was clear to some as early as the 1930s that you would have to integrate military affairs and war and preparations for war, the Treasury Department” with “intelligence, allied policy issues and domestic industrial policy,” said Richard Kohn, a professor of military history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In other words, fighting a war became about more than just war, Kohn said, and the Truman administration wanted a broader agency to encompass all of that.

Additionally, “defense was what was talked about in the 1940s, not just war-making,” Kohn said.

Another shooting occurred in the United States. Local media reported that a shooting occurred at a Catholic school in Minnesota.

According to US media reports, the shooting killed at least two people and injured 20 people; the Associated Press said that five children were among the injured.

City officials said the gunman has been “controlled” and “does not pose any real threat to the community.” Sources said the suspect is believed to have died from a gunshot wound.

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Pacific coast, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuations along the Hawaiian coast, and alerts were also issued along the U.S. West Coast.

The powerful earthquake, which struck about 85 miles off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, is one of the strongest ever recorded and the largest in the world since 2011 .

American influence

In the United States, the initial tsunami waves crashed onto the Hawaiian island of Oahu, forcing people to evacuate.

Authorities urged residents to leave beaches and low-lying areas for higher ground and to take shelter on at least the fourth floor of buildings. As part of a statewide warning system, sirens will sound every 10 minutes across the Hawaiian Islands for three hours before the projected impact.

Hawaii Governor Josh Green told reporters earlier Wednesday that the state “has not seen any serious consequences” and called it “a huge relief.”

Tsunami warnings were also issued for other parts of the U.S. Pacific – coastal areas of Alaska, Oregon, Washington and California – but those have now been lifted.

Tsunami waves were recorded overnight in Monterey and San Francisco, California, but did not cause serious problems.

In California, tsunami warnings were issued for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, as well as Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Tsunami warnings were also issued for the U.S. territories of Guam and American Samoa, but have since been lifted.

Crescent City, located on the border of California and Oregon, has since lifted all tsunami warnings. It was the last area in the United States to do so on Wednesday morning. Local officials said waves peaked at about 3.5 feet (10 meters) high, and no casualties have been reported so far.

The earthquake also affected travel; Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines resumed flights Wednesday morning after suspending them due to tsunami warnings.

Tsunami warnings and alerts around the world

In Russia, a camera captured the eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the region’s highest peak, with hot lava flowing down its western slopes.

The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning across northern Japan, forcing the evacuation of more than 2 million people.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency warned that a tsunami of about 3 feet high was expected to hit Hokkaido. The agency later lowered the tsunami alert level to a lower level, but said people still needed to remain vigilant.

Elsewhere in the Pacific, French Polynesia, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands, Nauru, Australia and the Philippines issued varying levels of tsunami warnings, as well as advisories predicting strong currents and possible flooding, but these have now expired.

In Central and South America, tsunami warnings or alerts were issued for Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia.

ABC News’ William Gretzky, Anthony Trott, Mireya Villarreal, Tanya Stukalova, Clark Bentsen and Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct a reference to data from the U.S. Geological Survey, which said Tuesday’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake was among the 10 strongest since 1900.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris will not run for California governor in 2026, after months of considering the prospect of being the chief executive of her home state.

“In recent months, I have given serious thought to asking the people of California for the privilege to serve as their Governor. I love this state, its people, and its promise. It is my home. But after deep reflection, I’ve decided that I will not run for Governor in this election,” she said in a statement released Wednesday.

The decision could give Harris greater leeway for a presidential run in 2028, an option she has yet to rule out. Harris said she would share “more details in the months ahead” about her plans.

“I have extraordinary admiration and respect for those who dedicate their lives to public service—service to their communities and to our nation. At the same time, we must recognize that our politics, our government, and our institutions have too often failed the American people, culminating in this moment of crisis,” Harris said. “As we look ahead, we must be willing to pursue change through new methods and fresh thinking — committed to our same values and principles, but not bound by the same playbook.”

Harris announced this decision after months of reflecting how to best contribute to the Democratic Party after her presidential election loss, she said.

“I am a devout public servant, and from the earliest days of my career, I have believed that the best way I could make a difference in people’s lives and fight for a better future was to improve the system from within. And it has been a profound honor to do that work and serve the people of California and our nation — as a prosecutor, Attorney General, United States Senator, and Vice President,” said Harris.

Over the past several months Harris has waded back into politics, appearing virtually at a young voters summit earlier this month and an abortion rights advocacy group in June. Her joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee, the Harris Victory Fund, has begun fundraising on behalf of former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s new Senate bid as well.

Harris said despite not running for governor, she was finding other ways to “remain in that fight” for “freedom, opportunity, fairness, and the dignity of all.”

“I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people, helping elect Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly, and sharing more details in the months ahead about my own plans,” Harris said.

President Donald Trump this week spoke at length about his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but his accounts raise new questions about when exactly the two fell out and why.

Trump said on Monday that his relationship with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking young girls and women, soured because Epstein poached some employees after he explicitly warned him not to do so.

Trump on Tuesday went on to say that Epstein “stole” young women who worked at the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

One of those workers, Trump said, was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who said she was recruited by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when Giuffre was an underage teenager working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and now serving a 20-year prison sentence, has denied the allegations. Giuffre died by suicide this past April at age 41.

“I don’t know. I think she worked at the spa, I think so, I think that was one of the people,” Trump first said when asked about Giuffre before going on to say more definitively, “Yeah, he stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, none whatsoever.”

According to Social Security records submitted to the court during Giuffre’s defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre was employed at Mar-a-Lago Club LLC in 2000 and earned $1,866.50 during that calendar year. The duration and precise dates of her employment at Trump’s club remained in dispute when the lawsuit settled in 2017.

Giuffre — then known as Virginia Roberts — subsequently went on to travel extensively around the world with Epstein and Maxwell over the next two years, according to flight logs kept by one of Epstein’s pilots that have been entered into court records in civil and criminal cases.

Trump’s comments came after the White House last week said Epstein was kicked out of Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.”

Asked about the discrepancy between the White House’s reasoning for his split with Epstein and his own that it was over Epstein stealing his employees, Trump said on Tuesday “it’s sort of a little bit of the same thing.”

As he told reporters that Epstein poached young female staff, Trump said “people would come and complain, ‘this guy is taking people from the spa.’ I didn’t know that.”

“And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa.’ I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again and I said, ‘Out of here,'” Trump said.

But previous comments from Trump suggested his falling out with Epstein occurred several years later than that.

In 2002, Trump praised Epstein in a New York magazine profile of the now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender.

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told the magazine. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Then in 2004, the two men were rivals over a property in Florida as reported by the Washington Post. Trump ultimately won the property at auction.

In 2019, when Epstein was arrested on federal charges, Trump said he hadn’t spoken with Epstein in 15 years.

“I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. I mean, people in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I’d say maybe 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his.”

Asked at the time for the reason behind their falling out and why Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago, Trump responded: “The reason doesn’t make any difference, frankly.”

ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment on Trump’s explanations of his fallout with Epstein.