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The Boston Marathon bomber's lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client's death penalty sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial.

In 2017, director Jake Kasdan rebooted the ’90s family adventure film "Jumanji" by plunking John Hughes-style teen characters into a wilderness-set video game. "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" was a critical and commercial success, anchored by the charms of megastars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black, and the unique pleasure of watching them all play against type. Kasdan and company (including co-writers Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg) know a good formula when they see it. Читать дальше...

Sometime soon, there will be a class, book or dissertation parsing the era of late period Clint Eastwood, his cinematic fixation in the latter half of the 2010s on ripped-from-the-headlines white male American exceptionalism. The notoriously speedy auteur, now 89, has churned out these films every two years starting in 2014, with the smash hit "American Sniper." He’s taken on the "Miracle on the Hudson" with 2016’s "Sully," and experimented with nonprofessional actors in the ghastly "The 15:17 to... Читать дальше...

Hans G. Reif, an economist, teacher and decorated World War II veteran who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, died Dec. 6 in Heathwood Assisted Living at Williamsville, N.Y. He was 94.

No new international military students will come to the United States for training until new screening procedures are in place, the Pentagon said Thursday in the wake of the deadly shooting last week by a Saudi Arabian aviation trainee at a Florida Navy base.

Pushing through dense foliage toward the site of the bygone ambush, Michael McDonald-Low felt like he was floating through time.

Crews have finished draining all of the fuel from an overturned cargo ship three months after it capsized off the coast of Georgia, the team overseeing salvage operations said Thursday.

Our resources extend only so far and there is no way we can keep every place else in the world safe from itself.

The court’s unwillingness to philosophize about the Constitution in the abstract is one of the most important limits on its power.

The United States has a new ambassador to Russia after the Senate voted Thursday to confirm the No. 2 official at the State Department to the post. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan was confirmed by a 70-22 vote.

A Pentagon investigation has concluded a senior Defense Department official sexually harassed women on his staff, touching them and making sexual comments, according to an inspector general report released Thursday.

America’s future enlisted leaders will need to couple the ability to bring violence to bear on the country’s enemies with a range of new skills, such as diplomacy and countering disinformation campaigns, the Pentagon’s outgoing top enlisted advisor said.

Britons who have endured more than three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate in the deeply divided nation.

Sgt. Marshall Edgerton died Dec. 11, 2003 while doing a force protection shift on Combat Outpost Champion Main in Ar Ramadi, Iraqi. Edgerton had volunteered to escort an incoming vehicle so that his fellow soldier could finish his meal.

When the Battle of the Bulge ended after 40 days of frozen, frenzied fighting, one of the largest and longest American battles in Europe had impacted both the future of that continent, and the lives of thousands of soldiers, including many Northeast Ohioans.

Based on a judge’s ruling last month, it appears that scores of donors, volunteers, veterans organizations and fundraising sponsors will be able to speak at Kevin Creed’s sentencing hearing March 16. He has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, which carries a maximum 20-year penalty.

The Federal Communications Commission is setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline. Once it's implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help, similar to calling 911 for emergencies or 311 for city services

A federal judge has dismissed one of 14 lawsuits filed by military families who say they have been sickened by toxic mold in Keesler Air Force Base housing. The suits were filed against the owner and management company for Keesler housing, Hunt Southern Group and Hunt MH Property Management.

Thomas Nielson joined the Air Force when he was 17 and was promptly deployed to fight in South Korea, but his real battle began after he returned home and filed for military medical benefits.

One of Germany's richest families, which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Pret A Manger and other international brands, is giving millions to support Holocaust survivors as it seeks to atone for its use of forced laborers during the Nazi era and its enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler, The Associated Press has learned.

The blasts of howitzers rang across the snow-covered landscape of Vilseck as soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s Bulldog Battery learned how to fire and move during a qualification exercise Thursday.

Firefighting foam containing PFOS was released this month after an auxiliary power unit in an aircraft hangar was inadvertently switched on at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a Marine spokesman said.

The enhancements are designed to support new Australian vessels used for border protection, but they will also be useful for visiting Navy ships, former Australian assistant defense secretary Ross Babbage said Wednesday in a telephone interview.

After seven years on the shelf, the Rumble on the Rock wrestling tournament is back on the Okinawa mats, with four regular Far East tournament teams and local Japanese grapplers set for a full day’s action Saturday at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

A pair of Taliban bombs detonated by suicide attackers at a nearby hospital shattered windows and damaged buildings at Bagram Airfield, spurring cleanup efforts after Wednesday’s failed attempt by the insurgents to breach the base.