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The crew of 6th Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney was surveying the damage from a Friday fire aboard the ship, according to the Navy.

This year's National Coast Guard Memorial Service was one of legacies and links to the Coast Guard's past.

The Secret Service says a woman was arrested after jumping over a low barricade in front of the White House.

Florida's agriculture commissioner has ordered faster processing of concealed weapons permits for members of the military and veterans — a reaction to the five murders at military recruiting centers in Chattanooga.

Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo for security talks with Egyptian officials before heading to Qatar to try to ease Arab concerns about the Iran nuclear deal.

Two months ago, Stanley Martin had barely ever held a golf club before, let alone played 18 holes.

Ukraine's foreign minister is calling on Russia to come to "real negotiations" about a cease-fire and stabilization in Ukraine's war-torn east which will require fair elections that are internationally monitored.

It didn't take long for a group of soldiers from Fort Bragg's 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Unit, 3rd Brigade Combat Team to come up with an efficient method Thursday morning.

Although it has been in use for two months, the official opening of the Maj. Gen. Henry C. Evans Readiness Center in Westminster comes today, when the Maryland National Guard dedicates the renovated and expanded facility on a 10-acre location on Hahn Road.

The Navy's top doctor addressed the graduating class of the Naval Undersea Medical Institute Friday, and explained to the audience that the medical support for a submarine's crew is the responsibility of "several people."

A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Saturday arrived at a French military testing facility where it will be analyzed by experts.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Saturday placed a major archaeological site in Crimea, which he has hailed as the country's most sacred spiritual symbol, under federal control following turmoil over the appointment of its director.

Iraq's Kurdish regional government called on the Kurdish Worker's Party to "withdraw" from Iraq's Kurdish territory Saturday to prevent civilian deaths amid a campaign of Turkish airstrikes targeting the group.

Determined to secure support for the Iran nuclear deal, President Barack Obama is making inroads with a tough constituency - his fellow Democrats in Congress.

Some people look surprised and tell him they just can't believe it's been 10 years already. For Keith Wightman, time hasn't passed quickly at all.

Three relatives of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were among four people killed when a private jet crashed on landing in southern England, British police confirmed Saturday.

Journalists arriving this week to the Indian Ocean island Reunion to report about the discovery of a jet wing fragment were met with another spectacular sight: the eruption of one of the Earth's most active volcanoes.

Audio message purportedly from Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor also included comments about peace talks, though it wasn't immediately clear whether he supported them or not.

Almost 900 sailors who died in the July 1945 torpedo sinking of the USS Indianapolis, four days after it delivered key parts of two atomic bombs that would be dropped on Japan.

Subsisting on a roughly $20,000 annual budget, the Moland House has adapted by bringing in school groups, Boy Scouts, and archaeologists who have dug up items on the site -- such as the first minted American cent and military belt buckles.

A Yemeni official says Bahah will chair a Cabinet meeting later Saturday that will be attended by seven other government ministers already in Aden.

Members of the Division 30 faction reportedly fled to a nearby area controlled by a Syrian Kurdish militia.

Sergey Lavrov will confer with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir during his two-day trip to Doha.

The statement also condemned Turkey for bombing civilians, following reports that civilian homes were damaged in airstrikes in northwestern Iraq.

At least 844 civilians were among the dead, while 488 members of Iraqi security forces and pro-government militias fighting the Islamic State group were killed.