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The citation for retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinksi’s Medal of Honor – an upgrade from the Navy Cross he initially received for his heroics – describes “a murderous hail of machine gun fire” greeting Slabinksi and his commando team as he “charged directly toward the enemy” up the mountainside.

Sixteen years after surviving a hellish night atop a snow-covered 10,000-foot mountain in eastern Afghanistan, retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinski stood Thursday in the White House’s East Room and received the nation’s highest military honor from President Donald Trump.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, filed legislation this week to plug a jurisdictional gap on military bases that has allowed hundreds of sexual assaults committed by juveniles to go unprosecuted.

A U.S. Navy veteran who survived the 1969 ship collision that claimed the life of his son and later fought unsuccessfully to have the victims' names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has died.

Flags were placed in front of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday by hundreds of soldiers with The Old Guard during the annual pre-Memorial Day Flags-In ceremony.

A woman and her boyfriend have been sentenced to decades in prison in the 2012 killing of her husband, a soldier at Fort Campbell, Ky.

George Zimmerman, who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, has $2.5 million in debt and no income, according to paperwork in his misdemeanor stalking case.

Airstrikes overnight in eastern Syria killed at least 12 pro-government fighters, all reportedly foreign nationals, a war-monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian government-run media blamed the strikes on the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group.

Retired Navy Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski led a daring rescue attempt for a stranded teammate up an Afghanistan mountain in 2002.

It happens everyday on Facebook, Instagram and in real life - that moment when you see someone you haven’t seen in years. Maybe they’ve gone gray or gained a few pounds, but there’s no doubt you’re looking at that friend from high school or the cousin who moved away when you were both 10 years old. You see the boy you once rode bikes with in the face of the man or the girl who taught you how to French-braid your hair in the eyes of the woman.

House and Senate lawmakers from both parties are meeting with top intelligence officials Thursday for classified briefings as President Donald Trump has raised new suspicions about the federal investigation into his 2016 campaign.

Justice Department and intelligence officials briefed top Republican and Democratic lawmakers Thursday on a confidential FBI source who aided in the investigation of whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia, attempting to defuse a partisan conflict over use of the source and the FBI's reluctance to reveal information about the matter.

President Donald Trump and North Korea suggested Friday that future nuclear negotiations may still be possible despite the surprise U.S. decision to scrap next month’s summit plans.

The top U.S. commander in South Korea said Friday that the cancellation of President Donald Trump’s summit with the North delayed but did not end chances for a diplomatic breakthrough. North Korea said it’s still willing to hold talks with the United States “at any time.”

North Korea expressed regret Friday about President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel summit plans and said it’s still willing to hold talks with the United States “at any time.”

The summit, which would have been the first between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president, had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.

President Donald Trump canceled the planned summit with North Korea Thursday and warned that the U.S. military was ready to respond to any “foolish or reckless acts” by the communist state.

About 500 soldiers, families and kids walked and ran on Thursday in the eighth annual Feet for Freedom Fun Run on base to get an early start on Memorial Day weekend.

A chief charged with training and use of a navigational system on the USS John S. McCain at the time it collided with a commercial tanker in the Straits of Singapore, pleaded guilty Thursday to dereliction of duty and acknowledged his role in the deaths of 10 sailors last year.

The missile used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 aboard, belonged to a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday after painstakingly studying video and photos of a military convoy.

Camp Humphreys promises its American residents a taste of home — and in the case of pancakes, it delivers.

Desi is not welcome at a lot of Italian beaches. And despite poodle propaganda, he’s no water dog. Standoffish after being forced into a brief swim in the Ligurian Sea, my pet was downright surly at Lake Garda. Beach vacations were problematic.

The House Thursday passed a $717 billion defense policy bill that would give the military a 2.6 percent pay hike, the largest in nine years.

Last year, 17 named storms developed in the Atlantic, and 10 of those went on to become hurricanes. It was the most active and destructive hurricane season since 2005.

If you're serious about peace and denuclearization, maybe don't mention Libya. That appeared to be the message North Korea had for the United States once again on Thursday.