Despite the sting of Donald Trump’s recent visit to her country, Mexico’s foreign minister says she still hopes to work with whomever becomes the next U.S. president, especially on issues of migration.

President Obama heralded the opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture on Friday, calling it a timely reminder of the progress made by black Americans — but also the progress left to make.

Marine veteran Adam Sismour was shot and killed on Sunday while sitting in a car in the residential neighborhood of Newark.

Daniel Patrick Wozniak lured his neighbor, Samuel Herr of Costa Mesa, to Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos and shot him. Wozniack intended to steal $50,000 the Army veteran had saved from service in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.

An Army National Guard general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been fired from his job following an extramarital affair, and interviews and records show that he had also negotiated a job and lived rent-free in the home of a defense contractor, USA TODAY has found.

The 691st Forward Surgical Team are being deployed overseas to support an ongoing operation for nine months.

A senior airman accused of growing and selling marijuana is being investigated for possible military law violations to include mishandling of classified information, according to court documents.

Maj. Gen. Wayne Grigsby made headlines in June following the invitation to a post prayer breakfast of a former commander widely criticized for his conservative Christian and anti-Muslim statements. It is not clear whether Grigsby’s suspension had anything to do with that event.

They are sisters and daughters of the ferocious enemy that attacked Pearl Harbor in the "day of infamy," an enemy that surrendered four years later after waves of firebombing of Japanese cities and the dropping of atomic bombs. They married men who occupied their country and came to the United States. And then? They disappeared into America.

“You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people,” gunman Omar Mateen told a crisis negotiator from inside the Pulse nightclub during a June standoff, transcripts of 911 calls released Friday show.

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Obama vetoed the bill on Friday, warning it could undermine the effectiveness of any U.S. government response to foreign government support for terrorism and could open the door to lawsuits against U.S. personnel in other countries.

Charges against John Alan Deming include possession of marijuana and cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession of a firearm with a controlled substance.

Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, says a Republican congressman.

Two Norfolk-based destroyers that recently completed an eight-month deployment have already returned to international waters to participate in the largest anti-submarine warfare exercise Canada has hosted off its east coast in the past 20 years.

Though it would no longer have repercussions on their military service, no Air Force athlete has publicly come out as gay or lesbian during their time with the Falcons.

Muslim Community Center of Union County leaders called bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami misguided and said people who follow extremist teachings are criminals.

The suicide prevention walk was held by the 1st Dental Battalion. More than 1,000 Marines and sailors walked three miles around the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital. Marine Corps Community Services set up booths providing information on resources and support programs.

Training missions were put on hold so personnel could respond to Tuesday's crash that killed one pilot and hurt another.

Two senior Democratic lawmakers with access to classified intelligence on Thursday accused Russia of "making a serious and concerted effort to influence the U.S. election," a charge that appeared aimed at putting pressure on President Barack Obama's administration to confront Moscow.

After a three-year search, the Department of Veterans Affairs has named Keith Repko as director of the VA St. Louis Health Care System.

Crew members have detected a leak on the Zumwalt, the new destroyer built at Bath Iron Works, but the Navy and defense experts say such errors are typical for a first-in-class ship.

The 1st Infantry Division is the oldest continuously-serving unit in the Army, being established in 1917. The Big Red One was also the first into World War II, Vietnam, and the first back into Iraq when ISIS became a threat.

Bath Iron Works on Friday announced it would lay off 30 employees as part of a larger elimination of 160 positions in engineering and support areas such as human resources and finance.

Luc Tieman, 32, reportedly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder because of his combat service overseas in the military.

SpaceX said Friday that evidence points to a large breach in the rocket's helium system during a routine prelaunch test that turned into a devastating fireball three weeks ago.

Anthony Dawson, director of the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System, attended a town hall meeting at the VA outpatient clinic near Eglin Air Force Base, where he heard from several veterans and their loved ones who were extremely unhappy with the mental health care services provided locally.

A computer hacker who helped the Islamic State by providing names of more than 1,000 U.S. government and military workers as potential targets was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.

A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website faces up to two weeks in solitary confinement in part for attempting suicide, according to a nonprofit group that has been supporting the soldier.

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One might think President Barack Obama would have asked his top military officials to weigh in on his administration's decision in January to send $400 million in cash to Iran.

Army records containing "personally identifiable information and personal health information" were found in a field in Fountain, Colo., on Sept. 14, Fort Carson officials said Wednesday night.

A third night of protests over a fatal police shooting in Charlotte gave way to quiet streets as a curfew enacted by the city's mayor ended early Friday.

The new blaze broke out at 2 p.m. on the north side of the coastal, mostly undeveloped Vandenberg Air Force Base is unrelated to the other fire that's on the south side, base officials said.

The father of the man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey informed the FBI in 2014 about his son's apparent radicalization, he said.

Known as the Old Glory Relay, the event involves 62 teams moving a single flag from Washington state across the nation to Florida. The goal is to raise awareness for programs and services benefiting former U.S. military personnel.

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For an eighth straight year, a period spanning the wartime presidency of President Obama, Congress will fail to pass a defense budget on time. It’s a wasteful misstep caused again by bitter partisanship, weak leaders and alarming apathy over the harm being done to military readiness, says senators on the armed services committee.

Before senior Air Force officials settled on Raider, they launched a contest seeking ideas - and the results were decidedly mixed.

Leaders behind a plan for a new Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora, Colo., agreed to a grandiose design and ignored repeated, early warnings about the costs, driving it into financial failure, according to a report issued Wednesday.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is under scrutiny by Latino advocacy groups after the school published a photograph showing Army cadets wearing sombreros during a game Saturday near the Mexico border.

The top U.S. military officer told Congress on Thursday that he believes Russia bombed a humanitarian aid convoy in Syria earlier this week, killing 20 civilians in an "unacceptable atrocity," as the bitter feud between the two nations over the five-year Syrian civil war escalated further.

Training missions were put on hold so personnel could respond to Tuesday's crash that killed one pilot and hurt another.

There was little additional information about the death that has shaken the space community in Huntsville, home of one of NASA's major centers. Officials did confirm that the father was the parent driving the car.

According to information from the Defense Department, the contract calls for Cessna to provide six 208B Grand Caravan EX turboprop airplanes to the U.S. Africa Command and Pacific Command areas for use in counterterrorism.

The streets of Charlotte were mostly quiet Thursday, but Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Duke Energy all told employees not to venture into North Carolina's largest city after Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency Wednesday night and called in the National Guard.

A new analysis from a nonpartisan group finds that Donald Trump's latest tax proposals would increase the federal debt by $5.3 trillion over the next decade, compared with $200 billion if Hillary Clinton's ideas were enacted. The Trump campaign disputed the findings.

A white Oklahoma police officer was charged with manslaughter Thursday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, but early evidence and different accounts of events are muddling the case.

Under the steady pops of simulated gunfire and very little protective cover, soldiers of the 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion crossed a lake in a humbling tribute to their comrades' brave actions during World War II.

Aviation giants Airbus and Boeing Co. have received permission from the U.S. government to sell aircraft to Iran, part of landmark deals potentially worth some $50 billion in total following last year's nuclear accord.

Lettie Williams, the director of the Joint Visitors Bureau at Fort Bliss, recently found out that she has won the Joseph P. Cribbins Medal from the Association of the U.S. Army. The other award-winner is Terri Rangel, who was named the national member of the year by the Associates of the Vietnam Veterans of America.

A Republican-led House committee has voted to hold in contempt of Congress a former State Department employee who helped set up Hillary Clinton's private email server.

The elementary school at Fort Rucker Army base is closed as officials try to determine what sickened 24 fifth graders last week, sending 11 of the children to the hospital.

Nick Noreus has always had a thing for adventure. After separating from the Air Force this past May, he had the not-so-crazy idea of building a boat and sailing it from Montana to Destin, Fla., over the course of the summer.

The announcement was made during a ceremony Thursday with Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, in Washington, D.C.

The naval station joined other Navy installations across the country in marking the service’s first Bells Across America for Fallen Service Members ceremony to honor those who died while on active duty.

Kansas' attorney general has released a document showing that the U.S. Department of Defense spent nearly $26,000 surveying potential sites last year for housing terror suspects now held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The spill left two sheens on the bay, including one just over a mile long by 40 yards wide on San Pablo Bay, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A second sheen was later spotted near the Phillips 66 Rodeo refinery marine terminal.

A Rhode Island man charged with plotting to help the Islamic State group has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, including a plot to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller.

American Family Housing, a nonprofit that builds housing and provides services for the homeless, is creating California’s first shipping-container apartment building for veterans.

The blaze at Vandenberg Air Force Base was 70 percent contained, and base officials said they were hopeful that number would go up throughout the day.

A military liaison called the state trooper a potential terrorist and claimed he was disruptive and belligerent. But none of the 35 other troopers in the training class backed up the liaison's claim, according to an internal investigation.

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With so much speculation surrounding them, the GOP nominee and wealthy businessman's tax filings may just be the most wanted information of the 2016 campaign.

The pilot who died after ejecting from a U2 spy plane that crashed in northern California was identified Wednesday as Lt. Col. Ira S. Eadie.

The coveted coins are cloaked in secrecy, just like the spy agency that produces them. So what are CIA-commissioned mementos — brass "challenge coins" most commonly associated with the military — doing up for sale on the internet and by private dealers?

Marijuana pioneer Colorado is poised to add post-traumatic stress disorder to its medical marijuana program, joining 18 other states that consider PTSD a condition treatable by pot.

Army officials acknowledge that there is an ongoing discussion about whether boxing should continue in service academies. But, they say, that's a separate debate than whether female cadets should be treated the same as male students and be required to take the same classes, including boxing.

Officials are notifying 267 patients who underwent gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures at an Air Force Academy clinic that they might have been exposed to contaminated medical equipment.

The U.S. chief of naval operations is hosting the 22nd International Seapower Symposium from Wednesday through Friday at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport. About 500 people from 106 countries are attending.

The number of times that dangerous pathogens are not properly “deactivated” for safe scientific study is considerably higher than what’s been reported by agencies overseeing such research, a federal audit says.

The ship sustained "an engineering casualty" that will require 10-14 days to fix, according to a story from U.S. Naval Institute News, citing a Navy statement.

A Los Angeles man and former Marine whose dying girlfriend wrote his initials in blood after her throat was slashed has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

The recent explosion of a SpaceX rocket should raise concerns about going with the lowest bidder on sensitive national security launch contracts, the chief executive of the United Launch Alliance wrote in a letter to top Pentagon officials earlier this month.

Army records containing "personally identifiable information and personal health information" were found in a field in Fountain on Sept. 14, Fort Carson officials said Wednesday night.

He bought bomb ingredients on eBay and recorded a mirthful video of himself igniting a blast in a backyard. In a handwritten journal, he warned that bombs would resound in the streets and prayed he'd be martyred rather than caught, authorities say.

The customers filed a federal class-action lawsuit against companies that manufactured a military firefighting foam that's thought tied to contaminated wells. The foam was used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen spent nearly four hours Wednesday being verbally pummeled by the House conservatives who want to impeach him. Koskinen stands accused of presiding over the IRS when the agency destroyed computer backups containing thousands of emails sought by Congress in its investigation of political targeting at the agency.

The new pedestrian underpass would mean veterans and medical staffers no longer have to cross the busy Rockville Pike while traveling between the Metro station and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

U.S. District Judge John Lee sentenced Hasan Edmonds to the maximum of 30 years in prison for plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack, telling him it was “difficult to think of a more pernicious crime than a soldier betraying his country.”

The Senate on Wednesday backed the Obama administration's plan to sell more than $1 billion worth of American-made tanks and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, soundly defeating a bid to derail the deal pushed by lawmakers critical of the kingdom's role in Yemen's civil war.

The summit is being hosted by the National Governors Association and its current chairman, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has made cybersecurity the main initiative of his tenure.

The outgoing commander of an undersea warfighting center in Connecticut says he has been working to make sure technology being developed for the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet is useful when it gets into sailors' hands.

MWR works with taxi companies like Uber that want to provide service to post. Those companies first have to comply with security requirements before their drivers can have access as independent contractors.

World leaders from Pakistan to Ukraine unleashed their regional grievances Wednesday, taking the stage of the U.N. General Assembly to rage against their neighbors and presenting a picture of a chaotic world consumed by intractable conflicts.

It will serve as headquarters for about 105 soldiers. It is replacing the original center that was built in 1975 and sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Isaac in 2012.

The Orlando International Airport is officially opening a USO Welcome Center on Wednesday for the hundreds of thousands of military members, veterans and their families who visit Central Florida annually.

In exchange for as much as $220 million worth of subsidies, Sikorsky Aircraft will remain headquartered in Connecticut for another 16 years, retaining and growing about 8,000 jobs.

Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have erected a virtual city matching their political ambitions. Thrown up over the last month, it’s a symbol of the group’s logistical prowess as it prepares to lay down its arms and enter politics.

The USS Zumwalt was supposed to get under way Monday for at-sea training. But as the crew prepared for the voyage, it found a seawater leak in its propulsion system.

Lee Francis wanted to make a point about free speech. And he did - it just didn't play out quite as he intended. The civics teacher from Massey Hill Classical High School in Fayetteville, N.C., was giving a lesson last week about the Bill of Rights that touched on Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court case upholding the constitutional right to burn the American flag.

Several Army veterans in Ohio who were part of the former U. S. Army regiment known as the Borinqueneers have been honored with replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the regiment.

A group of Pulse survivors and family members of those killed in the massacre have created a video urging Congress to pass legislation that would keep civilians from buying military-style rifles.

A pilot from Beale Air Force Base was killed and a second was injured Tuesday after a U-2 spy plane, one of the most famous aircraft of the Cold War era, crashed Tuesday morning near the Sutter Buttes.

Many families of 9/11 victims are furious at President Barack Obama for saying he will veto a bill that would allow them to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the terrorist attacks.

Army cornerback Brandon Jackson's funeral brought together hundreds of people, including football coach Jeff Monken and one of Monken's closest friends: Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo.

Federal prosecutors announced an eight-count indictment Tuesday against Patricia P. Driscoll, the ex-girlfriend of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, charging her with a fraud and tax-evasion scheme as president of the Armed Forces Foundation, a Washington-based charity that assists veterans.

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With the power of his mind, a paralyzed Army veteran amputee causes a robotic arm to raise it's elbow and close its fist.

After a series of Saudi-led airstrikes that reportedly killed and wounded civilians in Yemen, members of both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation to block a $1.15 billion arms sale that would supply the longtime American ally with a fresh contingent of tanks.

Robert W. Cone, 59 — a four-star general who held a command position during the Iraq War and headed Fort Hood in 2009 when a gunman killed 13 people — has died, according to U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

U.S. District Judge John Lee sentenced Hasan Edmonds to the maximum of 30 years in prison for plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack, telling him it was “difficult to think of a more pernicious crime than a soldier betraying his country.”

A 19-year-old U.S. Marine had just visited his girlfriend that night and was preparing to drive to the home of a family friend, when he was struck by gunfire. He was found Friday slumped over and unconscious in a Dodge Charger.

"It's a legacy worth preserving by means of the Navy's highest honor, having a ship bear his name and assigning that ship sponsors that personify his values," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said.