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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is seeking some 2,500 more peacekeepers to reinforce the United Nations mission in Mali which has seen 12 of its members killed in May alone.

Iraqi forces say they are continuing to push into the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, having secured its outskirts.

An Air Force Thunderbird jet crashed Thursday in Colorado just after a flyover at a graduation ceremony for Air Force Academy cadets where President Barack Obama had spoken.

The real lesson is not that the #NeverTrump groups “failed,” but that the GOP has.

There’s not much common ground between Trump and Sanders, despite the shared label of populism. A Bernie Bro who switches to Trump must be very angry indeed.

Last I checked, geographic origin is not a slur. If it were, it would be wrong to label people from Mississippi as Southerners.

Zoos warp our understanding of these wonderful beings and perpetuate the notion that they are here for our purposes.

Bryan Whitman, the senior Pentagon official charged last month with stealing a Capitol Hill nanny's license plates, has been placed on paid administrative leave and had his top-level security clearance revoked.

Three Syrian men who entered Germany with a wave of migrants were arrested Thursday on suspicion of planning an Islamic State attack on the city of Düsseldorf, potentially thwarting a deadly operation that appeared eerily reminiscent of the recent assaults on Brussels and Paris.

The U.S. said the number of global terrorist attacks declined slightly between 2014 and 2015, although the Islamic State group expanded its reach. Iran remained the leading state sponsor of terrorism despite sealing a nuclear deal with world powers, the State Department said in its annual survey of worldwide terrorism released Thursday.

In many cases there's no sound defense for works of fiction that make millions weep. If there were, "The Bridges of Madison County" and "Miss Saigon" would be, in some way, defensible.

Gross out comedy king Judd Apatow had a good, jokey parody of country music biopics a decade back in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." He lampooned the perils of rock celebrity in "Get Him to the Greek." Neither was a bona fide classic like "Spinal Tap," but they were legit fun.

If you’re of a certain age (born in the early ’80s) the best part of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” comes after the movie is over, when the credits morph into the bright, cartoon style of the TV show we knew and loved, soundtracked to that indelible theme song. Sing it with me: “Heroes in a half shell, turtle power!” That’s the point when you finally recognize the beloved and bizarre turtles that somehow signify childhood. The preceding hour and 50 minutes, directed by Dave Green... Читать дальше...

A new tattoo policy unveiled Thursday allows Marines to join other servicemembers in showing a bit more ink but continues to ban arm-covering designs.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Well, I cried anyway. I cried even though halfway through “Me Before You,” I swore to myself I wouldn’t, because the movie felt overly broad, overly simplistic, lacking depth both in characterization and in treatment of the serious issues it raises. At the end, I still thought all those things ... but the tears came anyway. It seems that some movies — particularly those featuring young, passionate, suffering people — are destined to get the waterworks going no matter how well (or not) they tell their story.

A Somali prisoner at Guantanamo Bay told a military judge Thursday that he has experienced what he believes are intentional noises and vibrations inside the high-security section of the prison known as Camp 7, echoing a defendant in the Sept. 11 war crimes case who has alleged he is the victim of deliberate attempts at sleep deprivation.

Carlos Villarreal squabbled with Veterans Affairs officials for months over getting an MRI to assess his nerve damage from a mortar attack in Iraq. He finally had the test done — 2,000 miles away.

President Barack Obama implored the next generation of U.S. military leaders Thursday not to give in to isolationism or pull back from U.S. leadership in the world, drawing a contrast with a foreign policy vision that's been laid out by Donald Trump.

Records released as part of a Senate committee investigation into opioid over-prescription and abuse of authority at the Tomah VA show a Marine veteran made dozens of calls to law enforcement agencies — and one to Congressman Ron Kind — in the year before his death at the facility.

Sailors in the USS Harry S. Truman’s 3D printing lab have invented a device that’s already saving the Navy thousands of dollars and will soon have out-of-this-world implications.

The Justice Department is siding with a legal argument by fired Veterans Affairs official who was at the center of a nationwide scandal over long wait times for veterans seeking medical care and secret lists covering up the delays.

The deployment marks the third year in a row that the strategic bombers have been dispatched to Europe, where they will take part in exercises such as Saber Strike 16 and BALTOPS 16. In Africa, the bombers will join AFRICOM’s Just Hammer exercise.

The defense spending bill making its way through the Senate contains no money for a new round of base closings.