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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson touted the modernization of the Coast Guard fleet Wednesday in a speech to graduating cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

Seventy-four years after he was killed at Pearl Harbor, Navy Chief Petty Officer Albert Eugene Hayden was laid to rest Wednesday beside his parents in a rural parish cemetery on a hilltop in a southern Maryland county near the Chesapeake Bay.

A sweeping trade deal with 11 Pacific-Rim nations, considered critical to the strategy, is in danger of rejection by the U.S. Congress. And China, the chief U.S. rival in the region, is aggressively pursuing territorial claims and increasing its belligerence toward U.S. friends and allies, including the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam.

Each team played only once Wednesday, with two more days of round-robin competition before finals.

Bahrain boys, Hohenfels girls both go through opening day without a victory

The Navy's highest-ranking officer has summoned more than 300 admirals to a special gathering near Washington on Thursday at which he will urge them to place a renewed emphasis on integrity in light of several scandals that have plagued the service.

Two years ago, "Neighbors" writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, along with director Nicholas Stoller, reinvented the classic college party movie by pitting the frat guys against the young parents next door. It was a raunchy but sweet rumination on getting older and growing out of party mode, a refreshing take on the college movie formula. With "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," they've flipped the script, creating a feminist party classic that's completely current and doesn't skimp on any of the wild humor. Читать дальше...

It's a question congressional investigators have long been seeking to answer: Could the military have reached the besieged diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in time to prevent the killings of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, the night of Sept. 11, 2012?

Most top seeds hold to form, but several underdogs playing tougher than they did during regular season.

He remains a wizard at making films focused on young people, witness his Cannes-premiering "The BFG," adapted from the classic Roald Dahl novel. But Steven Spielberg knows he's not a kid anymore, and that has affected everything.

None of them really expected it to work. A four-day retreat in rural Virginia to change the course of the war that has trampled through their lives. How could it?

A weeklong wave of suicide attacks in Baghdad by Islamic State group militants appears aimed at forcing the Iraqi government to maintain substantial forces in the capital or even pull back some of them fighting the militants in order to protect the capital. Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, said the Baghdad bombings mark a new turn in tactics.

President Barack Obama appears poised to begin selling weapons to an old enemy and a new friend: Vietnam.

Hundreds of Naval Academy plebes endured 14 hours of the annual Sea Trials, a rigorous series of physical and mental challenges that are the culmination of their freshman year.

A 19-year-old Israeli woman has spent more than three months in military prison in what supporters say is the longest sentence ever handed down to a female conscientious objector.

In 2004, social worker Victoria Bruner helped establish a three-week intensive post-traumatic stress disorder program at the Defense Department’s Deployment Health Clinical Center at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Swedish aircraft maker Saab has unveiled the latest version of its Gripen fighter jet.

A three-star general who was fired in March after an Air Force investigation found that he had exchanged sexually suggestive emails with a female officer when both were married to other people will be allowed to keep his rank as he retires, saving him thousands of dollars each month.

With Hillary Clinton, there’s no maybe. For whatever reason, she simply can’t seem to stick to the truth, which, at times, needs neither embellishment nor denial.

A three-star general who was fired in March after an Air Force investigation found that he had exchanged sexually suggestive emails with a female officer when both were married to other people will be allowed to keep his rank as he retires, saving him thousands of dollars each month.

A diplomat’s reward for years in danger sometimes seems to be a congressional or FBI investigation for security lapses. That’s wrong.

Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome rocket defense system aboard naval ships for the first time.

Five years before he held 18 people hostage inside a Sydney cafe, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis attracted the attention of the FBI as someone who had "the potential to incite others to violence," according to documents.

Newport News Shipbuilding will ultimately add more than 1,000 jobs to help build a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines for the Navy, the company president said Tuesday.

Four nations - Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the United States - ended talks Wednesday much as they began, seeking peace in Afghanistan but with no real progress on how to get there or how to bring the most powerful of the country's insurgent groups, the Taliban, to the negotiating table.