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Trump suggested that if Clinton is able to pick federal judges as president, the right to bear arms would be threatened, suggesting Second Amendment supporters could intervene.

Trump suggested that if Clinton is able to pick federal judges as president, the right to bear arms would be threatened, suggesting Second Amendment supporters could intervene.

Jet fighter pilots from four squadrons are returning to Lemoore Naval Air Station following a seven-month deployment on the USS John C. Stennis.

A lawyer for a soldier accused of killing his then-14-year-old girlfriend's mother after she objected to their age difference told a jury on Tuesday only the girlfriend is to blame.

While retention is a challenge, and high school grads still comprise the largest single source of recruits, China's armed forces are on an increasingly educated trajectory.

The positioning of a small number of elite U.S. personnel in the coastal city of Sirte deepens the involvement of Western nations in the fight against the Islamic State affiliate.

The top-seeded player in the women's tennis tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics got upset on Tuesday by Elina Svitolina of Ukraine. Simone Biles and her acrobatic teammates had a much better day in gymnastics.

The Americans' second straight Olympic triumph was never in doubt, their score of 184.897 at the Rio Games more than eight points clear of the field.

GoFundMe has raised more than $2 billion since it was launched six years ago as a platform for philanthropy.

Sirte, once a city of 80,000 people, has about 1,000 residents remaining. Islamic State militants there totaled up to 1,000 fighters at one time. But their numbers have dwindled as well.

The U.S. Marine Corps will adjust its force structure in the near future as it identifies gaps in capability and technology that it could face in a battle with a modern enemy, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller said Tuesday.

Perhaps not every quirky true story needs a biopic starring Meryl Streep, as evidenced by Stephen Frears' bizarre "Florence Foster Jenkins," the story of a wealthy older woman who launched an amateur singing career in the 1940s, despite her distinct lack of talent. It's a film that dares you to give it a bad review, simply so it can turn around and call you a bully who picks on the people who try. It invites you to giggle at Florence's horrible singing and then promptly scolds you for laughing, creating... Читать дальше...

Cities nationwide -- big and small -- are racing to purchase heavy-duty equipment in the wake of the July 7 shooting in Dallas and the killing 10 days later of three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers.

Search crews have retrieved the "black box" from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank in 15,000-feet of water near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin last year, officials said Tuesday.

In the desolate Texas of "Hell or High Water," a bank clerk (Dale Dickie) gently sasses the ski-masked robbers with the condescending assessment, "y'all are new at this." That's the world created by director David Mackenzie and writer Taylor Sheridan in this post-recession Western, which plays like a Johnny Cash song come to life. All the adventures and angst of the good bad guys that Cash sang about are on screen, in this tale of men fighting for prosperity in a world that's no longer made for them.

"When we say 'We Will' we mean that we will be everything that he was and do everything for him," said linebacker Daniel Gonzales.

Relations that were hailed by China and South Korea as the best in history have soured and President Park Geun Hye may get a frosty reception in China next month because of her agreement to deploy a U.S. missile shield on Korean soil.

The arrest in Bulgaria of a French citizen with ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris followed a tip from his sister, new details showed Tuesday.

The Navy last week said the fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite, known as MUOS-5, experienced a propulsion system failure that prevented the satellite from moving from elliptical orbit to its final geosynchronous orbit.

A Baghdad court dropped corruption charges against Iraq's parliament speaker on Tuesday, citing insufficient evidence to support accusations first raised by the country's defense minister during a questioning in parliament.

A Pakistani court has allowed federal investigators to hold an American for another three days to investigate how he re-entered Pakistan despite being barred from the country.

The parents contend in their lawsuit that it is “highly probable” that Hillary Clinton sent and received information about U.S. Department of State activities and covert operations in Benghazi via the email server she used during her four years as secretary of state.

The transition to so-called "multi-domain operations" calls for the Pentagon to prepare not only for wars on land, air and sea, but for newer forms of warfare that incorporate both space and cyberspace.

Khizr Khan says Donald Trump's call to ban all Muslim immigrants — a position he has since modified — and his provocative statements against Mexicans and others bear some of the responsibility for a loss of civility and restraint.

For a long time now, Americans have displayed a tendency to sanitize, marginalize, or altogether forget wars that resist incorporation into the preferred triumphal narrative of U.S. history. Afghanistan falls into the category of the best forgotten. Yet however inconvenient, Afghanistan demands attention.