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“We have a Navy. Why don’t the Navy come and drop ice in the warm water so they can’t get going as fast as it’s going?” the unidentified Palm Bay man said.

The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun, a law enforcement official said.

Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least five deaths were reported.

With the men of ISIS imprisoned elsewhere, the women inside the fences of al-Hol are reimposing the militant group’s strictures, enforcing them upon those deemed impious with beatings and other brutality, and extending what residents and camp authorities call a reign of fear.

The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 people and wounded 119, almost all local civilians, just hours after a U.S. envoy said he and the militant group had reached a deal "in principle" to end America's longest war.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Dorian’s effects are predicted to be felt along the coasts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina from Tuesday through Thursday.

Hurricane Dorian continued its slow crawl Tuesday toward the U.S. East Coast, prompting military bases from Florida to North Carolina to move personnel and equipment before the Category 2 storm brought significant rain, flooding and winds up to 120 mph.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered key defections from his party Tuesday, losing a working majority in Parliament and weakening his position as he tried to prevent lawmakers from blocking his Brexit plans.

The world’s largest retailer says it will stop selling ammunition for handguns and short-barrel rifles — including .223-caliber and 5.56 mm cartridges, which can be used in military-style weapons — once it sells through its current stock.

The Conception carried 33 passengers and 6 crew members, and only five of the crew sleeping on the top deck were able to escape by jumping off and taking a small boat to safety.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday defended his decision to stay at one of President Donald Trump's properties while in Ireland in the face of criticism that he's enriching Trump at taxpayers' expense. Pence called the Trump property a "logical" choice.

A moving company worker posted on Facebook and told colleagues that an American family had a safe filled with gold coins and gold-plated roses, witnesses said Tuesday at a trial for two men charged in the violent burglary of the Americans’ residence.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and North Korean top diplomat Ri Yong Ho met Monday to discuss a wide range of issues, including regional security and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, a central figure in the territory's ongoing mass anti-Beijing protests, urged Taiwanese people on Tuesday to hold their own demonstrations as they face growing pressure from China.

Master Sgt. Luis DeLeon-Figueroa was recalled as a fun-loving, young man who brought joy to others at the funeral service Tuesday for the Green Beret from Chicopee, Mass.

There’s a saying in American infantry battalions, usually directed by furious sergeants at slow-moving privates: “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

The criteria for a promising protest candidate are thus not especially stringent. Surely in this great and large nation, anti-Trump Republicans can find someone who meets them.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.’s Beavercreek office will have a role in a just-awarded, nearly $69 million contract supporting the Navy’s E-2D Hawkeye.

The U.S. Army expects to know soon what changes must be made at ranges in Europe to meet new, more demanding marksmanship training requirements for soldiers, service officials said.

A recent Defense Department report found more than 17% of military personnel are considered obese, up from less than 16% four years earlier.

The Navy was the most obese and the Marine Corps was by far the least, but the overall rate across the military continued a steady increase, a Defense Department study found.

A U.S. fighter squadron that flew thousands of hours fighting the Islamic State group last year has received the Raytheon Trophy, marking the third time in a row a Lakenheath unit has won the honor.

Around 500 protesters gathered outside a compound housing foreign nationals on Tuesday, calling for it to be shut down just hours after a bomb targeting the facility killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 100 others.

Here's a look at the presence of the U.S. and others in the Persian Gulf region.

Here's a look at the presence of the U.S. and others in the Persian Gulf region.