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The Army will roll out its long-planned update to its physical fitness test during the next two years, with a new six-event assessment that will dramatically improve the service’s ability to predict how a soldier will perform in combat, senior officials said Monday.

The Army will roll out its long-planned update to its physical fitness test during the next two years, with a new six-event assessment that will dramatically improve the service’s ability to predict how a soldier will perform in combat, senior officials said Monday.

The towers of Waikiki Beach cast such long shadows over Oahu that it seems daunting, in the mind’s eye at least, to escape them when weighing a visit to Hawaii’s most populous island. But it can be done, and we did.

PASADENA, Calif. - Evangeline Lilly’s character of Hope van Dyne has gone through some changes from her introduction in “Ant-Man” to the twin billing of “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” When she made the first film, Lilly described Hope as one of the darkest and dourest characters she had ever played. That was based on Hope having to deal with grief, parental issues and the need to prove she was as good as any man in the business world.

The generals and other officials overseeing the desperate operation to rescue 12 young soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave labyrinth in Thailand's sweltering far north were only half joking when they quipped Monday that success was in the hands of the rain god Phra Pirun.

A calendar of nearby water parks and pools of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

Retired Army Col. Rick Stark Jr. is the latest to participate in the Artist-in-Residence program at Gettysburg National Military Park.

The Thunderbirds are celebrating its 65th year of representing the U.S. Air Force.

Some first responders say the scale, sadness and sometimes sheer gruesomeness of their experiences haunt them, leading to tearfulness and depression, job burnout, substance abuse, relationship problems, even suicide.

Both survivors of the Holocaust, Frank Shatz and Erika Fabian met in 1953, when Shatz helped extricate Fabian and her sister from prison in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Helping those left behind may not be easy. But the president needs an invigorated domestic policy agenda to get the job done.

Americans have an obligation that exceeds even the government’s to tolerate free speech, even speech that they find repugnant.

Chief Justice John Roberts got at the truth of things in his ruling that said it was not the job of the court to judge Trump’s statements but to judge whether they influenced what he did.

British Prime Minister Theresa May dug in her heels Monday after the resignation of two top government ministers over Brexit negotiations whipped up a storm that threatened to topple her fragile minority government

For Poland, so often caught in the pincers of clashing empires, this could prove to be a moment of heightened opportunity — or of deepening peril.

Putin has a reputation as an ex-KGB thug. But his Syrian strategy evokes the subtler Chinese precept of subduing the enemy without fighting.

As charter schools proliferate across the country, their organization into New Orleans-style charter-only school districts under local control may be the next step in the continuing evolution of American education.

How can someone who calls herself pro-choice oppose Roe v. Wade? Let me count the ways.

American Huey 369 Inc. is well on its way to building the nation’s first museum dedicated one of the most respected and iconic military aircrafts in history. The $3 million, 30,000-square-feet facility will be called the National American Huey History Museum, built on 22 acres just outside Bunker Hill, Indiana.

A Navy sailor was killed in a non-combat incident while conducting small-boat operations in the Red Sea, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

President Donald Trump has turned to military bases as a “solution” to the crisis he created on the nation’s border. With a policy of detention rather than resettlement, Trump’s program builds on the shameful precedent set at Guantanamo during the 1990s.

Even if Trump doesn’t understand it yet, the U.S. won’t necessarily be competitive for long if global security turns into a marketplace.

Video review is used in professional basketball, baseball and other sports, but it’s an awkward fit for soccer, a flowing game with a clock that doesn’t stop.

By Trump’s logic, Putin would have cause to seize the parts of Latvia and Estonia that are Russian-speaking, not to mention Belarus and Kazakhstan.

For me, outlawing abortion is much like the failed effort to enforce prohibition during the 1920s. The problem is not the legality of the practice; it’s that there is a demand for it at all.