Hegseth orders US Army to restore name of Fort Bragg

Feb 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of Defense statement, undoing a 2023 name change driven by racial justice protests. The base, among the world's largest military installations, had been renamed Fort Liberty as part of an effort to rechristen bases named for Confederate officers. The move to shed Confederate names for military bases came in the wake of nationwide protests after the 2020 death of George Floyd...