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Lawyers for the alleged USS Cole bombing mastermind quit the capital case after discovering a microphone in their special client meeting room and were denied the opportunity to either talk about or investigate it, the Miami Herald has learned.

After Paul Paterson Jr.'s first stint with the U.S. Navy in the mid-1940s, he was looking for answers to life's big questions. Soon thereafter, he started singing bass in a gospel quartet. That led to him singing in a Billy Graham crusade.

Sometimes Bruce Willis and over-the-top screen violence are perverse, transgressive fun. Think of him running around on his bloody, glass-cut feet and mowing down a platoon of cocky Euro-baddies in “Die Hard.” Or killing John Travolta on the john in “Pulp Fiction.” And later, having escaped imprisonment in a creepy pawnshop, quietly weighing the lethal capacity of every weapon in stock before deciding to kill his kidnappers with a samurai sword. Those scenes were beautifully underplayed by Willis, giving the screen slaughter a comic edge. Читать дальше...

John Adams Dix's original letter was presented to the Treasury Department in a ceremony Wednesday. The nation's 77th Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, expressed admiration for Dix's leadership at a "pivotal time" time in U.S. history.

Although Mohammed bin Salman has pushed through some liberal policies at home — including his dramatic decision to allow women to drive — and he is viewed as a key economic ally for a post-Brexit Britain, his foreign policy is controversial in London.

A U.S. Army tanker that slid off the Richardson Highway on Sunday afternoon spilled around 800 gallons of jet fuel onto the surrounding snow and soil, officials said.

Ice Exercise 2018, or ICEX, is a five-week biennial exercise that began Wednesday with the arrival of the two fast-attack submarines and a Royal Navy submarine, the HMS Trenchant.

Speaking before a crowd of law enforcement officials in a state he had just accused of violating the Constitution, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday excoriated California and some of its state and local leaders for passing laws and taking actions that he said obstruct immigration enforcement and put officers in danger

Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was formally charged Wednesday with 17 counts of first-degree murder, which could mean a death sentence if he is convicted.

A senate panel took the Pentagon’s comptroller to task Wednesday over years of delays in conducting the Department of Defense’s first-ever financial audit.

Boeing will modernize the Navy’s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets to extend their life by at least a decade and improve cockpit, communication and fuel systems.

Local authorities lack the resources to dispose of the bodies that lie in the Mosul neighborhood where ISIS fighters made their last stand against Iraqi forces in the summer of 2017, according to the Nineveh governor's office.

Sometimes Bruce Willis and over-the-top screen violence are perverse, transgressive fun. Think of him running around on his bloody, glass-cut feet and mowing down a platoon of cocky Euro-baddies in “Die Hard.” Or killing John Travolta on the john in “Pulp Fiction.” And later, having escaped imprisonment in a creepy pawnshop, quietly weighing the lethal capacity of every weapon in stock before deciding to kill his kidnappers with a samurai sword. Those scenes were beautifully underplayed by Willis, giving the screen slaughter a comic edge. Читать дальше...

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

A legislative committee voted Tuesday to give Bath Iron Works $60 million in tax incentives as long as the company maintains current employment levels and invests at least $200 million in the shipyard.

Prosecutor Steve Pattelli says the 27-year-old suspect was high on drugs when he grew concerned about zombies. Pattelli said he also breached security, boarded an empty plane and tried breaking into a police vehicle.

More than a few games over the years have attempted to meld real-time strategy and collectible card games. To date, none yet have really succeeded in marrying the two seemingly disparate genres. Yet, the endorphin rush of opening packs of cards and the ego boost of pulling off a master strategic plan remains an attractive combination for developers. Enter “Golem Gates,” the latest game that looks to extract the best qualities of those two genres, add a touch of MOBA flavoring and distill it all into one package.

About 100 Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit will be conducting exercises and drills in areas of Phoenix, Glendale and Mesa. The training will be conducted in restricted areas mostly at night and should be out of sight to the public.

The Navy issued a health advisory and sent most personnel home on Wednesday after a broken pipe turned water murky at the Capodichino base. The disruption mainly affected administrative and service employees, who will return to work Thursday.

China has now developed, to the point where it’s seen as bullying foreign businesses and governments rather than being bullied by them. In this, China merely confirms the same harsh logic of geopolitics of which it was once the victim.

Kim appears to understand that the United States can hardly expose South Korea to a potentially apocalyptic war without support from Moon. To do so would court disaster diplomatically, economically and militarily.

Here’s what’s so striking about these sessions: The blowhard, who’s supposed to be all about himself, listens more to others.

The statute regulating (not “barring” or “prohibiting”) use of the presidential seal is drafted with care.

It's sounded like a nonstop thunderstorm at Grafenwoehr for past two weeks as more than 3,700 soldiers from 26 nations are participating in Dynamic Front 18 — the U.S. Army’s premier multinational artillery drill on the Continent.