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When Australia began prohibiting brand logos and requiring grim pictures of smoking-borne diseases on cigarette packs, tobacco giant Philip Morris fired back using a novel tactic.

Ken Lewallen always travels with a plastic filing cabinet in his car. He never knows when he might run into a veteran who needs help filling out paperwork for benefits.

With many lives potentially saved on the high-speed train by quick-thinking and courageous passengers, the limits of a continent's worth of security were thrown into relief by a lone attacker during a less-sophisticated act of violence.

Ramstein is the first U.S. Air Force base overseas to get a C-130J Maintenance and Aircrew Training System — a fancy name for a flight simulator. It will be used to train aircrews that fly the C-130J Super Hercules from Ramstein and the maintainers who keep them ready to fly.

Williamson native and Liberty High School graduate Herman Williams is a real war hero. The 68 year old Williams, known as “Jerry” growing up on Vinson Street, was awarded an unprecedented three Purple Hearts while serving as a Marine during the Vietnam War.

The Air Force is awarding Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone its highest noncombat honor, the Airman’s Medal, for his heroic actions aboard a Paris train, the Air Force announced Monday.

The Air Force is awarding Airman First Class Spencer Stone its highest non-combat honor, the Airman’s Medal, for his heroic actions aboard a Paris train, the Air Force announced Monday.

A controversial political decision regarding a Colorado high school football team's plans to honor fallen military personnel has had an impact 1,600 miles away in Shamokin.

Ukraine's president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a "large-scale invasion," in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded a $150,000 grant to Eric Hodges, an instructor at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, and two colleagues at Virginia Tech to develop a summer teaching institute focusing on veterans issues.

CG-290, a Coast Guard patrol boat with a crew of eight, rocked silently in the darkness of Narragansett Bay, moored to a bell buoy as it awaited its prey. Somewhere out in the fog was a rumrunner. Standing in the pilothouse, Boatswain Alexander Cornell, skipper of the New London-based craft, heard the sound of powerful motors coming from the ocean. He said to one of his crew, "Here she comes."

A Chinese tourist held hostage for more than a year by the Taliban in Pakistan has been freed by the country's security forces and intelligence agencies, authorities said.

At a time when the U.S. Army Rangers are making headlines for the first two females to graduate the grueling Ranger School, one thing should be remembered to put it all in perspective. Rangers may lead the way, but not all of them make it back. Dimitri del Castillo, an Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant from Tampa, was one of them.

The world can seem to be an awfully big place, but then there are some stories that make it feel very small. The story of Rebecca Blaesing and a dollar bill is one such example. Blaesing, now a freelance graphic designer living in Cumberland, was working in 1993 at Victory Deli in Portland when a co-worker set aside an unusual dollar bill. It was covered with signatures, and written around the border on the back of the bill was a curious line – “On the good ship AL516 (or 86) Honolulu Oct 29 1942 short snorter Bob Scull.” Blaesing... Читать дальше...

Former Admiral Thad Allen's legacy as the face of the Coast Guard during the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort is lending strength to the Coast Guard Academy's renewed focus on creating leaders.

At the age of 76, Don Dagnon has a half-century of wildland firefighting experience, much of it with a bulldozer that supports his excavating business in the small Okanogan County community of Loomis.

Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink — distilled spirits.

A U.S. Marine charged with murder testified in court Monday that he choked a Filipino unconscious during a fight that started when he discovered that she was a transgender woman in a Philippine motel but stressed that he didn't kill her, his lawyer said.

A U.S. Marine charged with murder testified in court Monday that he choked a Filipina unconscious during a fight that started when he discovered that she was a transgender woman in a Philippine motel but stressed that he didn't kill her, his lawyer said.

In recent years Justice Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinions have turned downright nasty, a clear indication of his frustration with the Roberts court.

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South Korea’s news agency reported Monday that the U.S. and Seoul were discussing the deployment of B-52 bombers or nuclear-powered submarines to the peninsula as three days of marathon talks have not eased the latest crisis between the rival Koreas.

South Korea's president vowed a hard line on Monday as marathon negotiations between senior officials of the two Koreas stretched into a third day in an attempt to defuse a crisis that had the rivals threatening war.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Monday to 23 colleagues killed four years ago in a Boko Haram car bombing at his organization's Nigeria headquarters.

Once again, the Koreas are trying to disentangle themselves from violence and threats of war. Skepticism over success abounds, but the rivals have proven time and again their mastery at pulling back from the brink of war.