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The new commander of U.S. Army Europe is eyeing readiness and interoperability with allied forces as his major priorities as he settles back in Germany, where he was born to a U.S. Army family decades ago.

When President Donald Trump picked Peter Hoekstra to be his ambassador to the Netherlands, he was inadvertently setting up an experiment: Would an exponent of the U.S. leader's own devil-may-care approach to accuracy flourish outside the hothouse environment back home?

Nearly 60 years after it entered front-line service with the Soviet air force — and 33 years since production ceased — the single-engine interceptor is reaching the end of the line on the Continent.

A clash over immigration that has pushed the federal government to the brink of a shutdown is unfolding as a fierce tug-of-war - with President Donald Trump as the rope.

Thirty-seven paratroopers with the Army’s 173rd Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) jumped onto a snowy field here during a heavy drop exercise Wednesday.

A division-level headquarters from Fort Riley, Kansas will take over the day-to-day command of Army operations along NATO’s eastern flank in March, relieving a 4th Infantry Division team that has carried out the mission for the past three years.

The U.S. Air Force awarded squadrons of F-35s fighter planes to bases in Montgomery, Ala., and Madison, Wis., on Dec. 21, which meant the people who worked hard to bring them to Jacksonville needed to start thinking about a plan B.

Ricci Chambless Bradden shot his wife in the ankle after they argued over a selfie she took and then shot a former Marine who tried to help her.

Ricci Chambless Bradden, 24, faces life in prison for wounding his wife, who worked at the Walgreens, and fatally shooting Anthony "T.J." Antell Jr., a good Samaritan, outside the store.

Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green will both be suspended for Houston's next two games, with the NBA coming down hard on both Wednesday for what the league said was their "hostile, verbal altercation" with several players in the Los Angeles Clippers' locker room earlier this week.

Division II takes its turn in the DODEA-Europe basketball spotlight this weekend as four teams gather for a two-day set of games at Aviano.

According to the GAO, the Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration have focused on how to equip military aircraft with the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out technology, with much less thought given to solving or mitigating security risks.

Cynthia Lopez Creseni, a 60-year-old Philippine citizen, was sentenced Jan. 12 by a U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo. She will be returned to her home country after her incarceration.

The Marines have identified the student stabbed to death during a Tuesday incident at Camp Pendleton but provided few other details about the ongoing probe.

Two veterans serving in Congress said Wednesday that they traveled to the Korean Peninsula last week in hopes of heading off President Trump’s escalating war rhetoric.

North Korea calls the United States' refusal to call North Korea by its chosen moniker, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, "insolent outrageous behavior."

The Navy's decision to move forward with possible criminal charges against officers who oversaw two destroyers involved in catastrophic collisions last year sets up a potential spectacle that has not occurred in a generation: The court-martial of a ship's captain in the death of his own sailors.

On Tuesday, the Navy said it would convene Article 32 hearings to consider court-martialing Cmdr. Bryce Benson, who commanded the USS Fitzgerald, and Cmdr. Alfredo Sanchez, former commander of the USS John S. McCain, for their roles in two deadly collisions last year.

A generation of Americans knew just what to do in the event of a nuclear attack — or during a major false alarm, like the one over the weekend in Hawaii. Take cover in a building bearing a yellow fallout shelter symbol. But these days, that might not be the best option, or even an option at all.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole knew the art of the deal before President Donald Trump published the 1987 book of the same name. The two shared a stage under the Capitol dome Wednesday as Dole, 94, accepted Congress' highest civilian honor for his World War II service and decades of work in the House and Senate.

The Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sized about 6,000 pounds of shrimp from a fishing vessel near the Dry Tortugas Shrimp Sanctuary Preservation area.

North Korea suddenly making nice for the duration of next month's Olympic Games in South Korea, putting seven decades of enmity on hold for 16 days with its offers to send athletes and entertainers across their heavily militarized border, won't fundamentally change what happens next.

The annual jazz seminar for U.S. military schools in Europe is the one chance many students get to play this quintessentially American music in a group setting.