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Tuesday during a House Armed Services Committee subpanel on readiness Rep. Elaine Luria questioned the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier's costs and delays, including the ship’s troubled elevators.

Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.

The bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate requires the POW/MIA flag to be flown with the American flag at certain memorials and federal buildings, including the White House and the U.S. Capitol.

When he escaped the armed group that had abducted him at the age of 15, the child soldier swore he'd never go back. But the South Sudanese teen still thinks about returning to the bush, six months after the United Nations secured his release.

Consuming nothing but Meals Ready-to-Eat for three weeks may not be the most appetizing thing to do, but a study by Army scientists has found that it doesn’t harm gut health.

Joe Biden is hammering President Donald Trump's treatment of the middle class while campaigning in his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, hours ahead of the president's own rally in Pittsburgh.

Authorities found 39 people dead in a truck in an industrial park in England on Wednesday and arrested the driver on suspicion of murder in one of Britain's worst human-smuggling tragedies.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has long argued that Brexit will let Britain "take back control" from the European Union. On Wednesday, Johnson's future, and his country's, rested on a decision from Brussels about whether the bloc will delay the U.K.'s scheduled departure to prevent a chaotic no-deal exit in just eight days.

A “surge” is underway at the Army garrison in Stuttgart to clear a huge backlog of home repair work orders and appease military community members who often must wait months for basic repairs, officials say.

On May 7, Ukraine's president gathered a group of advisers in Kyiv to discuss the nation's energy needs. Instead, the group spent most of the time talking about how to navigate the insistence from U.S. President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for a probe and how to avoid becoming entangled in the American elections, three people familiar with the details of the meeting allege.

A group of House Republicans barged into a secure room at the Capitol on Wednesday where the latest witness in the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry was set to testify, temporarily shutting down the proceedings.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of prickly questioning from lawmakers Wednesday as he defended the company's new globally ambitious project to create a digital currency while also dealing with widening scrutiny from U.S. regulators.

Increasingly embattled and isolated, former defense secretary Jim Mattis used a December disagreement with President Donald Trump over a military withdrawal from Syria as a “pretext to announce a decision that he had made months before to cut his losses and move on,” according to a new book by a retired military officer who worked on Mattis’ staff.

Joe Biden offered a rare apology on Tuesday night, saying he was sorry for using the phrase “partisan lynching” two decades ago to describe an impeachment proceeding. It came several hours after Biden had called President Donald Trump “despicable” and “abhorrent” for saying the impeachment proceedings against him was a “lynching.”

A 20-year-old West Point cadet who had been missing for days was found dead late Tuesday night, according to U.S. Military Academy officials.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas M. Scalzo, 28, an artilleryman from Selma, Ore., was found unresponsive in his barracks in South Korea.

For the first time in eight years, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Chinese navy trained together at sea last week.

Cadet Kade Kurita, 20, had been missing since Friday evening.

Cpl. Charles H. Grubb was 21 when he was reported missing in action Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was attacked near Chosin Reservoir.

U.S. troops leaving Syria are only "transiting" through Iraqi territory and will depart within four weeks, the country's defense minister said Wednesday.

Sgt. James Ernest Smith Jr. of Sedgwick, Kansas, was reported missing Nov. 25, 1950, after his unit was attacked near Kujang-dong. His remains will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The 319th Reconnaissance Wing aircraft — along with about 20 service members and 100 civilians from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam — operated from Yokota Air Force Base in Japan for the past three months to avoid extreme weather in the western Pacific.

The Naval Academy’s artificial intelligence conference Tuesday was an opportunity for 15 groups of midshipmen to show off their work to conference attendees, academy staff and community members.

As three Air Force Academy football players face cocaine charges in recent weeks, coach Troy Calhoun refused to answer questions about how he will address potential drug use among players in the future.

Veterans’ Preference allows police returning from active duty to add 10 points to a score on a promotional exam, then gain the promotion over anyone with an equal or worse score who took the same test. With the 10 points added to his test score, Joshua Koop finished second out of 12 candidates — but he did not receive promotion to sergeant.