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If you’re doing your job right in the U.S. Special Forces, it likely means no one will ever know. It’s a tough, elite and highly classified position, where acts of incredible heroism never get the ticker tape parade, and that’s kind of the point. These soldiers are supposed to slip into and out of secret missions without making the evening news. “12 Strong” tells just one of those extraordinary stories, fought in the mountains of Afghanistan in the winter of 2001.

The military housing complex, formerly known as Jackson Park Navy Family Housing, has gone through a slew of changes in the past five years to make the housing option more appealing to active-duty military families and even civilian renters.

A list of U.S. Army active component captains who have been selected for promotion to the rank of major, as announced on Jan. 17, 2018.

A co-worker of Navy officer Claire VanLandingham tried to run down her ex-boyfriend after he fatally shot her this month in Lake Forest, but the gunman killed himself before he was struck by the co-worker’s vehicle, police said Wednesday.

A co-worker of Navy officer Claire VanLandingham tried to run down her ex-boyfriend after he fatally shot her this month in Lake Forest, but the gunman killed himself before he was struck by the co-worker’s vehicle, police said Wednesday.

Steve Bannon's attorney relayed questions, in real time, to the White House during a House Intelligence Committee interview of the former Trump chief strategist, people familiar with the closed-door session told The Associated Press.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the main body providing aid to millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East, made an urgent appeal for international support Wednesday, one day after the State Department announced it will withhold more than half its annual funding.

Noisy helicopters Monday and Tuesday night startled residents from Boca Raton to Fort Lauderdale. Some under their path, not knowing what was happening, couldn’t help but think about the false missile alarm that went off in Hawaii over the weekend.

A few airlines have further improved the first-class sleeping experience compared with business class, providing not just a seat that turns into a bed, but a real bed as well.

Verizon Communications Inc. is adding to its sports streaming with an expanded National Basketball Association deal that includes eight live games free for any mobile phone user and a discount on League Pass live game subscriptions.

The nation has spoken: A 44-year-old Michigan man with a handlebar mustache and a beard that reaches to about his collarbone has the best facial hair in the country.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a chief negotiator vying for a bipartisan immigration deal, pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday to consider the plan in exchange for addressing an underfunded military and other hobbled national security issues.

Belgium has stepped in to help out the U.N. Agency assisting Palestinian refugees with an immediate disbursement of $23 million after the Trump administration suspended $65 million in aid for the international organization.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Sotheby's auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for 297,000 pounds (around $408,000).

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that the Trump administration's policy in Afghanistan is working, saying talks between the government and Taliban extremists, and a peace process, are closer than ever before.

World War II veteran Pedro “Pete” Amor Gonzalez died Jan. 6. He rarely spoke about his time in service until 2012, when he sat for interviews with a PBS affiliate for the 70th anniversary of the fall of Bataan and the Death March.

NATO's secretary-general arrived in Macedonia on Wednesday for talks on the country's renewed accession bid, a decade after a dispute with neighboring Greece halted an initial effort to join the alliance.

Hundreds of tasks need to be completed and hundreds of job openings filled before the new, overbudget and long-delayed Department of Veterans Affairs hospital near Denver can begin to accept patients for its scheduled opening this summer.

If the companies NASA has hired to fly its astronauts to space can't meet the agency's rigorous requirements for human spaceflight by late next year, NASA would have to continue to rely on the Russians, who charge more than $80 million a seat to launch Americans to orbit.

A Bulgarian court has opened the trial of two men charged with terrorism for their alleged involvement in a 2012 suicide bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and their bus driver and injured 35.

The Navy will foot the bill for a filter system to protect the Coupeville water supply from chemicals found in firefighting foam used at an airstrip near the town on Whidbey Island in Washington.

A bill to expand congressional oversight over how the Department of Homeland Security works with the private sector to disclose cyber vulnerabilities is now before the Senate after it passed the House by voice vote last week.