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With a backlog of work and the promise of more to come, Newport News Shipbuilding plans to expand its workforce to about 25,000, a level not seen in at least several years, company officials said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump awarded the nation’s highest military decoration to Garlin “Murl” Conner’s widow, Pauline, in a White House ceremony commemorating the most remarkable moment of Conner’s exceptional combat career during World War II.

Lt. Col. Tara Carr, who previously highlighted veterans issues as a participant in CBS’ “The Amazing Race,” is using the Ms. Veteran America competition event to raise awareness of homeless female veterans.

Dr. Harvey Phelps was unmistakable in his big bow tie, whether he was defending Pueblo’s interests on the floor of the Colorado Senate, remembering his days as an Army battlefield surgeon in Korea, or explaining the latest developments in black lung research, a field he knew well.

The Supreme Court effectively put an end Tuesday to a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.

Reality Winner, the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking sensitive government information, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending to the news media a top-secret National Security Agency report about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

With hugs and kisses, family and friends of a Yemeni actor celebrated after he and at least three other detainees were freed after being held for nearly a year without charge in prisons that Associated Press reporting has shown to be controlled by the United Arab Emirates.

Following a series of reports about the poor state of the Veterans Affairs nursing homes in Alabama, the Senate has passed legislation to increase transparency and accountability in the VA.

U.S. Navy officials say a sailor who died on a helicopter flight line at a base in Virginia died by suicide.

The intensity of the threats and intimidation reached a peak over the past week, a DHS official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the harassment, ecklers drove Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.

Diplomats, politicians and military leaders gathered at Frankfurt airport Tuesday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift – a mission lauded as the greatest peacetime aerial supply mission in history.

Diplomats, politicians and military leaders gathered at Frankfurt airport Tuesday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift – a mission lauded as the greatest peacetime aerial supply mission in history.

The conservative Washington insider must defend a career working shoulder to shoulder with polarizing figures in American politics - and the moments when he came to the defense of their most divisive views.

Gjorge Ivanov, the president of the Republic of Macedonia, rejected an agreement with Greece on the nation's new name, a move that may be only a temporary hurdle in the ex-Yugoslav nation's NATO and European Union accession plans.

The hunter and his son scrambled up a secret mountain in Columbia County, and far above them, a serpent knew they were coming.

Delta and American Airlines, which have until July 25 to comply with Beijing's order to recognize Taiwan as part of China, say they are consulting with the U.S. government even as the White House dismissed the order as "Orwellian nonsense."

A specialist in German military history and the two world wars has received a $100,000 prize.

Rodney Smith, Jr., 28, is driving across the United States in search of people like Castro - single moms, veterans, disabled people and older people who need help with their lawns.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has accidentally overpaid hundreds of thousands sending some into debt when the government agency asked them to pay it back. But, new legislation sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown aims to prevent that from happening in the first place.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has accidentally overpaid hundreds of thousands sending some into debt when the government agency asked them to pay it back. But, new legislation sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown aims to prevent that from happening in the first place.

If the name Salvador Dali conjures images of melting watches and one conspicuous mustache but not much else, then a visit to Spain’s “Dali Triangle” will not only make for a fantastic road trip, it will show that there’s so much more to the renowned surrealist’s work.

A prudent first consideration when trying to understand Seattle is that it is not Athens, Rome or, for that matter, Stratford-upon-Avon. The seed of Western Civilization was planted in classical Athens, blew westward on a storm toward ancient Rome, was miraculously grafted onto stronger roots during the Renaissance in Florence and Siena and, one thing following another, kept going until it hit Seattle, where it stopped, the broad Pacific being too great a barrier for its further transit. Instead... Читать дальше...

Alonzo Gaviria, 24, died Monday, after a highway accident in Bavaria over the weekend in which the car driven by a soldier crashed into a truck, Army officials said Tuesday. The 27-year-old soldier remains hospitalized.

Cue the “Jaws” music. Sharks are the stars of a splashy new exhibit hall at the New York Aquarium that marks a major step in the beachfront facility’s recovery from the devastating impact of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy.