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President Barack Obama says he won't sign another temporary government funding bill after the current one expires on Dec. 11.

Dozens of West Coast military veterans incorrectly received letters indicating they’d lose unemployment benefits after an overworked Department of Veterans Affairs office in Seattle lost track of records the veterans had submitted, according to a VA Inspector General report released this week.

Alex Skarlatos, one of three Americans hailed as heroes for stopping a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in August, would have been at the Oregon college where a gunman killed nine people if Skarlatos hadn't been in Los Angeles to rehearse for ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."

Chris Mintz, a former Army infantryman, was shot three times as he tried to block the door and keep the gunman out of a classroom, according to his aunt, Wanda Mintz. "He hit the ground and looked up at him and said 'It's my son's birthday, don't do this,'" the aunt recounted. "And the guy shot him at least two more times."

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday demanded that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his government explicitly condemn the murder of an Israeli settler couple by suspected Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank.

AFNORTH/Brussels combined squad breaks through with first victory while extending Baumholder's losing streak.

Mohammad Daowood's death is no doubt a massive blow to the Afghan army at a critical time, just after insurgents mounted their most successful offensive of the past decade. But Daowood's death is also a chance to reflect on the courage and intellect of the Afghan forces, too often dismissed as apathetic or incompetent, as they fight one of the world's most violent wars.

Despite an ongoing Pentagon campaign to combat suicide, the numbers of troops who killed themselves held steady in the first half of 2015, with active duty numbers down and reserve numbers up over the same period last year, according to the most recent Department of Defense statistics.

The Air Force's top leaders meet with Air Force Research Laboratory officials twice a year, putting high level attention to the work of researchers at Wright-Patterson directorates, according to the agency's incoming executive director.

A museum in Bucharest is preparing to send the preserved heart of the last queen of Romania to its final resting place — the castle where she died.

Poland's defense minister says army experts have found no dangerous objects or substances on the surface of the site of an alleged World War II Nazi train.

Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town and opened fire, hitting some students with multiple gunshots. One witness said the attacker demanded to know students' religion before shooting them.

Hungary's prime minister lambasted his Croatian counterpart Friday, accusing him of being the envoy of a global left-wing organization with the job of attacking Hungary — some the strongest statements yet in neighborhood disputes caused by the migrant crisis.

Armed with stolen government dossiers, Taliban “death squads” went door to door hunting for aid workers, government employees, and suspected spies during their three-day occupation of Kunduz, human rights activists and residents said as insurgents retreated from the city Friday.

An annual defense policy bill scheduled for a vote by Senate Republican leadership – and facing staunch Democratic opposition — would require the Air Force to maintain 171 of the A-10s and bar it from spending any money on retirement efforts over the coming year.

The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon says Washington is more than doubling the baseline amount of U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese army compared to the previous year.

Although the head-to-toe covering known locally as the niqab is "not a phenomenon" among his teachers, Gaber Nassar said he wants to "cure the disease" before it becomes one.

As the battles to retake the Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Baiji have stalled, the U.S.-led operation to train and assist the Iraqi Army is facing its own internal problems, according to a Pentagon Inspector General report released Wednesday.

An annual bill setting Defense Department policy has passed the House and now must withstand Senate scrutiny and a possible vote Tuesday despite a lingering threat of a White House veto.

“The Prince of Darkness” was the nickname of cinematographer legend Gordon Willis, but Roger Deakins, too, has shown a kingly command of shadows.

Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi cut diplomatic ties with Iran, which it says arms and trains the country's Shiite rebels, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Friday.

The presidents of Russia and France, which both started bombing Syria this week, held talks Friday about their military operations as they tried to overcome differences on whether Syrian President Bashar Assad should stay in power.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's latest film, "Mississippi Grind," combines the classic tales of a love story and an odyssey, but features two down-and-out, inveterate gamblers as our heroes. Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), is pathetic and miserable, a hopeless gambling addict, drifting until he encounters the smooth-talking shyster Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), who shakes up his whole world. These two men enable the worst in each other, but also find some fellowship and redemption in the relationship, as they make their way from Dubuque... Читать дальше...

Southern California TV station KABC-TV had to air its Wednesday afternoon newscast — weather, sports and all — from the building's front lawn after a bomb threat.

Senior quarterback Shawn Robinson-Ortiz went 16-for-21 for 288 yards and five touchdowns, three to junior receiver Vincent Doria