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White House and Pentagon officials told The Washington Post that lower-level staff had been trying to please the president without high-level directives. The officials, though, confirmed that a member of the White House staff sent a message to military officials in the Pacific asking them to keep the ship out of photos during Trump's visit to the Japanese port of Yokosuka.

Petty Officer James Francis Tritt was landing aircraft at night aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam when he went overboard. His body was never recovered.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte accused a rival politician of being gay during a speech in Japan on Thursday. Duterte confessed that he'd also been gay, but he had "cured" himself after he began a relationship with his first wife.

While some senior Democrats have considered the idea of subpoenaing Mueller, lawmakers also are reluctant to issue a compulsory measure that could make them look overly aggressive toward a nonpartisan figure - or make Mueller look as if he's done something wrong.

Unrelenting storms and rainfall over the past several months have increased river levels, raising fears that the Mississippi will flood over the top of the Morganza Floodway and render it useless. The Army Corps estimates letting 150,000 cubic feet of water per second through the gates should keep it from being swamped by the rising river.

In the past two weeks alone, Trump has charged that federal investigators "conclusively spied" on his campaign, accused perceived political enemies of treason, and signaled that he will make these allegations a major talking point in his reelection bid.

China today is supremely confident, richer than it could have imagined three decades ago, and more convinced than ever of its repressive model of authoritarian political control. In many ways it's a direct result of a seismic event that took place 30 years ago.

Starting June 7, Jamaica will join 23 other countries competing in the monthlong tournament in nine French cities. The lowest-ranked team in the field, the Reggae Girlz might not earn a point in group-stage matches against Brazil, Italy and Australia. But that is beside the point.

Richmond's newspapers argued fiercely in favor of abolition. Thomas Jefferson's grandson pushed a plan to free slaves and help them settle in the new African nation of Liberia. Even a leader of the militia that put down Turner's rebellion called for a gradual end to slavery.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for making it crystal clear in the future that sitting presidents can be indicted.

The former bookkeeper of the sham nonprofit led by Rick Singer, the mastermind of the nation's college admissions bribery scandal, has agreed to plead guilty to charges and cooperate with the government.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday joined Jared Kushner at a closed-door meeting of the Bilderberg Group in the Swiss resort of Montreux, with many attendees uneasy about what one protester called the “wrecking ball” that President Donald Trump’s administration has taken to the postwar international order.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik hosted Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Geurts on a visit to Norsk Titanium that she hopes will lead to big business for the cutting-edge technology company. "I hope that DOD was very impressed," Stefanik said.

Retired Adm. William McRaven, who commanded many servicemembers and served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018, said people who denigrate millennials are wrong.

Matthew Solon was out with friends in Kennesaw, Ga., in June 2017 when he says he was approached by a belligerently drunk man who threatened them with a gun. Solon says he drew on his military training to disarm the man. He then called 911 and was arrested when police arrived.

As the Air Force chief of staff toured tornado damage in a housing neighborhood for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base personnel, he noticed one thing in particular: an overwhelming sense of community.

Gen. Arnold W Bunch Jr. took over the Air Force Materiel Command on Friday only moments after being named just the 220th four-star general in the Air Force's history.

Told that Duchess Meghan in 2016 called candidate Trump "misogynistic" and "divisive" during his presidential run – President Donald Trump insisted this was news to him. "I didn't know that she was nasty," he said before predicting that Meghan will make "a very good" royal.

Jeff Ferguson wants local veterans to be proactive in seeking help for themselves and for future generations whose lives could be affected by exposure to Agent Orange and burn pits.

No one doubts that the pilots are seeing something, but psychologists and specialists in aviation medicine say there are plenty of reasonable explanations for such sightings other than extraterrestrial beings. Earthly sources of light reflected by clouds or haze, for example, or optical illusions wrought by fatigue after staring through a cockpit window for hours on end.

A dust-up over who directed and knew about White House efforts to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Japan has raised new questions about whether the military's culture is changing under a president who has challenged institutional norms.

Army veteran Mark Steven Domingo was planning to detonate a bomb at a Long Beach white nationalist rally in April before he was intercepted by law enforcement officials, authorities said.

A former Marine suspected of killing a 30-year-old woman after she left a Costa Mesa, Calif., restaurant has been charged with murder 43 years later, authorities said Friday.

Raymond Loring Chambers, a 93-year-old Navy veteran, was presented with medals he never knew he had earned while fighting in the Pacific theater.

The Pentagon on Friday marked a year without regularly scheduled press briefings, underscoring what journalists and former officials have described as a decline in transparency and public engagement at a time when the military faces growing threats from China, Russia and Iran.