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Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC-618) following an interdiction in early May, 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean (U.S. Coast Guard) SAN DIEGO — More […]

It’s an image synonymous with the U.S. Air Force: a fighter jet streaking across the sky, tipping its wings and igniting its afterburner to boost thrust as it climbs. And while jets have been the […]

An Alaska school board’s decision to remove four acclaimed novels and one short story collection deemed too “controversial” from high school English reading lists has been reversed. The 6-1 vote Wednesday by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough […]

The head of U.S. Space Command says there is value in going back to the drawing board to look for a new base to host the Defense Department’s newest combatant command. “If you look at […]

The FBI is crediting sailors at a Texas air station with “potentially saving many innocent lives” when they thwarted what the agency has called a terrorism-related attack at their base Thursday. “The FBI would like […]

The race is heating up for a vaccine against COVID-19, and the U.S. military is vying for the win, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday on an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show. Esper said a […]

Rock Island Auction Company will soon be taking bids for the 1911 Colt .45 automatic pistol, and other kit, carried by a decorated Marine combat photographer during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War […]

Roughly 1,300 patients at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have received hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 since late March, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first-ever virtual graduation and commissioning ceremony, the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday welcomed a new class of officers into the Navy and Marine Corps as the sea services steer through […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX’s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons. Together, they will end […]