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A proposal to establish a board of directors for the Department of Veterans Affairs drew opposition Wednesday from a House committee intent on changing the VA’s culture.

In a declassified version of their June 2016 report on military readiness challenges, the government watchdog agency found that after almost 15 years of war, each of the services has identified rebuilding readiness — the ability of U.S. forces to fight — as a top priority.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday that he is in talks with the White House and Senate Democrats about breaking a partisan deadlock over funding to combat the Zika virus and a bipartisan accord to continue funding the government past a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

Syrian native Abu Wa'el Dhiab has repeatedly said he is unhappy in Uruguay and is demanding he be allowed to leave the South American country, which took him in with five other former Guantanamo prisoners in 2014.

The rare items include a circa 1790s sword with Hamilton's name on it, his mahogany writing box from the early 19th century and an epaulet from his Continental Army uniform.

The Coast Guard has phased out resident keepers at all light stations save for Boston Light because Congress in 1989 mandated the Guard staff and keep the light public in perpetuity.

A Russian jet flew within 10 feet of a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft over the Black Sea on Wednesday in what Pentagon officials warned was unsafe flying that risked increasing tensions between the two militaries.

On the night of July 7, seven American diplomats in Juba left a farewell dinner early and were headed back to the U.S. Embassy, anxious to avoid the city's deepening chaos, when their two-car convoy was ambushed by the South Sudanese presidential guard of Salva Kiir.

The House Committee on Veterans Affairs has voted to subpoena the VA to provide copies of all evidence found during an investigation into the Aurora, Colo. hospital, which is in its seventh year of construction and estimated to be more than $1 billion over budget.

President Barack Obama and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met informally on Wednesday in a holding room before attending a gala dinner at a regional summit, Philippine officials said.

It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon was finally laid to rest Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Middle East's two great geopolitical adversaries entered into a war of words ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, which starts this weekend. Their rivalry, shaped by sectarian Sunni-Shia divisions, can be seen in numerous bloody proxy conflicts across the region. But it also flares up in heated rhetorical broadsides.

A calendar of nearby water parks and pools of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

Writer/director Chris Kelly's "Other People" is a dramedy about death that mines moments both absurd and divine to craft its delicately wrought pathos. Many of these moments will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has witnessed the transition between life and death, the ones where you don't know whether to laugh or cry, so you might as well do both. Kelly, a writer for "Saturday Night Live," brings his comedy chops as well as his own personal experience to this largely autobiographical tale... Читать дальше...

Republican Donald Trump unveiled a plan to boost military spending by tens of billions of dollars on Wednesday, promising major increases in the number of active troops, Navy ships and submarines, and fighter planes as he works to convince skeptics in both parties that he's ready to lead the world's most powerful military.

An airstrike in the rebel-held part of Syria's contested city of Aleppo killed 10 civilians on Wednesday, activists said, an attack that hit in the same neighborhood where a suspected chlorine gas attack happened the day before.

Most people are trying to avoid Florida mosquitoes, blamed for dozens of cases of the Zika virus. But Republican Rep. David Jolly decided to make a point Wednesday by bringing a container of them to the House floor.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has dismissed claims that NATO is dragging its feet on Georgia's bid to join the alliance for fear of enraging Russia.

A congressional report provides previously undisclosed details and a behind-the-scenes chronology of one of the worst-ever cyberattacks on the United States.

Troops will see yet another low pay raise next year if President Barack Obama has his way, but the president’s decision to limit an increase to 1.6 percent is not necessarily a done deal.

The sight of a passenger plane along the skyline of New York is an image that has been seared in the global collective consciousness. It's a memory that "Sully," Clint Eastwood's new film, acknowledges, but also attempts to redefine. What if a plane skimming skyscrapers could conjure an image not just of unimaginable terror, but one of incredible heroism and skill? That's what "Sully" might accomplish, in committing to film the heartwarming story of "The Miracle on the Hudson," when Captain Chesley... Читать дальше...

Two people were in custody Wednesday after a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was found with seven gas canisters inside, and its license plates removed.

The perfect game doesn’t exist in the NFL or in any given rendition of Madden. Even so, “Madden 17” has a lot to enjoy. As they do every year, developers EA Tiburon concentrate on a set of new features, fixes, and points of emphasis to varying degrees of success. Not all the bases are covered, but this is still a team win that Madden gamers can appreciate on some level.

American service personnel who became sick from radiation after participating in relief operations for the 2011 tsunami are now getting high-profile support from Japan's former prime minister.

Intense fighting between Syrian government troops and insurgents in Syria's central Hama province displaced some 100,000 people over eight days between late August and early September, the U.N. humanitarian agency said.