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Speakers at an “industry day” event stressed that the Defense Department needs to upgrade its often-antiquated technology as a matter of urgent national security.

The White House left open the possibility that talks between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un could ultimately not occur — particularly if the North Koreans conduct nuclear or missile tests in coming weeks.

The National World War II Museum is taking apart a fire engine made for the military home front in 1943, and expects to have it rolling and ready for display in two or three years.

The Arizona Republican, one of the GOP’s most outspoken Trump critics, says, “The Republican Party is the Trump party right now. But that’s not to say it will stay that way.”

New York is a city I've always had something of a love/hate relationship with. First the hate: the noise level, which most Manhattanites seem not to notice, has me ready to chew off my own ears after a day or two -- the incessant drilling of jackhammers; cabbies sitting on their horns even when it's obvious they are going nowhere fast, and angry babel from multilinguals resulting from seemingly inane disagreements.

This is the 70th time Tiger Woods is at or within one stroke of the lead after 54 holes on PGA Tour, according to the Golf Channel. He has won 62 of those 69 instances.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent speech highlighting nuclear weapons that he claimed could be used to attack the United States was “disappointing but unsurprising” and does not alter the Pentagon’s strategic plan.

California and the White House are battling over immigration enforcement, the president’s signature issue on the campaign trail.

Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery is remembering a Medal of Honor recipient on the 50th anniversary of his death during the Vietnam War.

The White House has reached out to a veteran Washington lawyer with experience assisting presidents under investigation to see if he would join the legal team helping President Donald Trump deal with the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Walter Cronkite's televised editorial was the culmination of growing skepticism among American news organizations about whether the United States could prevail in what seemed to be the never-ending war thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia.

The U.S. responded militarily last year to reported Syrian government use of sarin gas.

Carter rose to the rank of Air Force lieutenant colonel years after joining the group of African-American pilots at Tuskegee University.

B Reactor, now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, was the world's first full-scale nuclear production reactor, and produced plutonium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1945.

Andrew Ferguson was in a number of pivotal battles in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War, including the battles of Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, Camden and Guilford Courthouse.

Sgt. Wesley Pease of Massachusetts' famed 26th Yankee Division was represented, thanks to his grandson, who brought treasures found in his grandfather's attic.

When South Korea previously held the Olympics in 1988, Kim Paolo and some 150 other poor urban residents spent months that year hiding in huge graves of their own making. They were the last among thousands ousted from host city Seoul after losing yearslong, pre-Olympic battles against government officials, police, construction workers and hired thugs.

The Korean truce village in the heavily fortified border area that divides the peninsula is a likely venue for the planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offers a rare opportunity for a diplomatic solution to a nuclear crisis that has threatened to erupt into war. But it also carries a lot of risk.

Roswell officials want the Air Force to better include area residents in discussions on its proposal to expand airspace use in southeast New Mexico.

In the winter of 1944 and 1945, Anthony Acevedo was a 20-year-old Army medic assisting wounded soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge. The six-week battle helped bring an end to World War II in Europe, but for Acevedo the horror was just beginning.

America went to war in Afghanistan because that not-really-governed nation was the safe haven from which al-Qaida planned the 9/11 attacks. It was not mission creep but mission gallop that turned the intervention into a war against the Taliban who had provided, or at least not prevented, the safe haven.

I took a breath, buried my pride and slid the $20 bill across the counter, suggestively. "Are there any complimentary upgrades available?" I asked the woman working the check-in at the Luxor Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. I was in town for four nights and on a mission to live it up in Las Vegas while keeping my bank account in check -- so I'd packaged my flight and hotel, chosen the cheapest room available and hoped for a little of that Sin City sleaze to make my stay a little more lavish. Читать дальше...

Hundreds of Fort Bragg and North Carolina National Guard troops could be eligible for the Humanitarian Service Medal. The medal could be awarded to those troops for service they provided during disaster relief efforts following recent hurricanes, according to reports.

For the past two years, the North Carolina National Guard has been able to claim the nation's top tank crew. Now, the state hopes to be the first unit to defend that title when it sends soldiers to compete against active-duty forces next month.