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Soldiers assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps and 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division work together with the Fairview community to assess damage after Hurricane Helene in Fairview, North Carolina, Oct. 5, 2024. The XVIII Airborne Corps are working side-by-side with state and local officials to ensure that critical supplies and support are delivered to our fellow North Carolinians. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alison Strout)

Number of active-duty soldiers deployed to help Helene recovery reaches 1,500 as Hurricane Milton nears Florida

Soldiers deployed into the North Carolina mountains in recent days came from the 82nd Airborne Division and the 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Liberty, N.C., and the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.

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Japanese and American ambulances park outside the 374th Medical Group's urgent care entrance at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 17, 2023.

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People wait in line to vote at a polling place on Nov. 8, 2022, in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images/TNS)

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Soldiers assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps and 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division work together with the Fairview community to assess damage after Hurricane Helene in Fairview, North Carolina, Oct. 5, 2024. The XVIII Airborne Corps are working side-by-side with state and local officials to ensure that critical supplies and support are delivered to our fellow North Carolinians. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alison Strout)

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Career soldier, combat veteran dies in Japan just shy of his retirement

Air Force

An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 77th Fighter Squadron takes off from North Auxiliary Airfield, S.C., May, 14, 2024.

Air Force keeps pace of rotating fighters at ‘keystone’ base on Okinawa

Pioneering Air Force general hands over command of TRANSCOM, retires after 36 years of service

Another Raptor makes precautionary landing at Air Force base on Okinawa

Navy

A rendering of a large building housing a military training facility.

Navy base in Japan breaks ground on high-tech ship-handling training simulator

US Navy hospital in Spain stops delivering babies following ambulance provider’s move

Navy festival in Japan draws largest crowd in 8 years, including food influencer Keith Lee

Space Force

A United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan VC2S rocket launches its first certification mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Jan. 8, 2024. Cert-1 will deliver the Astrobotic Peregrine commercial lunar lander into a highly elliptical orbit more than 220,000 miles above Earth to intercept the moon and will carry a Celeste’s Memorial Spaceflight payload into deep space. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

Boeing-Lockheed venture launches new rocket in key test

Northrop Grumman wins $200M contract for deep-space radar

Blue Origin set to test fire New Glenn stage at Canaveral launch pad

Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard Station Bayfield hauls a kayak aboard after rescuing stranded kayakers.

Coast Guard rescues 2 clinging to kayak in Lake Superior

Former cutter skipper takes command of Coast Guard’s growing Guam-based fleet

Coast Guard to send 3 more cutters to Guam, has no plans to escort Philippine ships

Marine Corps

Sgt. Hunter Clark, an MV-22 tiltrotor crew chief for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, signals ready for takeoff from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer for a humanitarian assistance mission while underway in the East China Sea, Oct. 5, 2024.

Rotational Marines tapped for typhoon relief mission in northern Philippines

Marine Corps’ unmanned ‘narco-boat’ heads to Okinawa for Indo-Pacific trial

Marine receives highest non-combat award for heroism in training incident

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U.S.

The governor of North Carolina and the administrator of FEMA stand in front of an SUV.

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Europe

Chagossians Whitney Tranquille, center, attends a protest to response the U.K. announcement to agree to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius and against their "Exclusion" from Chagos negotiations, outside the House of Parliament, in London, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Chagos islanders displaced for US military base protest deal on their future made without them

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Asia-Pacific

Japanese and American ambulances park outside the 374th Medical Group's urgent care entrance at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 17, 2023.

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North Korea’s Kim again threatens to use nuclear weapons against South Korea and US

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Middle East

People hug at the house of Maayan and Yuval Bar killed by Hamas, as Israel marks the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, at the Kibbutz Be'eri, an Israeli communal farm on the Gaza border, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

War rages on multiple fronts as Israel marks one year since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport

Israelis, still at war, pause to remember the attacks of one year ago

Africa

A man pushes a child in a wheelbarrow along a street in Pont-Sonde, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, days after a gang attacked the town. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Thousands survived a brutal gang attack in Haiti that killed 70. Now they face an uncertain future

Bipartisan Senate bill prods US to help end Sudan war

UAE accuses Sudanese army of bombing ambassador’s residence

Americas

Supporters of slain Mayor Alejandro Arcos place candles and flowers at the entrance of the municipal building one week after he took office in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

The mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after he took office

Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens

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Japan

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Korea

Oct. 9-Hangul Day: A Democratic alphabet created for Korean commoner

Hadong Cable Car welcomes autumn visitors with special Hangeul Day events and scenic views

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Okinawa

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Guam

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Veterans

People wait in line to vote at a polling place on Nov. 8, 2022, in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images/TNS)

Veterans, troops targeted in Iran-backed disinformation campaign ahead of US election

The nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a report warning of attempts by Tehran to present false content for American audiences that is critical of the U.S. election process and U.S. foreign policy.

Sports

Army football players and coaches celebrate a victory against Tulsa.

Daily accounts for 4 TDs to help Army beat Tulsa 49-7, improve to 5-0

Bryson Daily threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores, Kanye Udoh ran for 137 yards and two TDs on just six carries Saturday and Army beat Tulsa 49-7 for its ninth win in a row, dating to last season.

History

Miri, Afghanistan, Sep. 17, 2006: Local men listen during the shura, or meeting, held at the government compound in Miri, Afghanistan.

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Local men listen during a meeting in Afghanistan, 2006

Miri, Afghanistan, Sep. 17, 2006: Local men listen during the shura, or meeting, held at the government compound in Miri, Afghanistan.

Living

Python Huntress Amy Siewe holds an invasive 10-foot Burmese Python, originally caught by her colleague Harold Antonio Rondon-Mena, during a hunting trip down Tamiami Trail on Sept. 5, in Miami. Siewe has caught over 600 pythons herself since trading a real estate career in Indiana to become a professional python hunter five years ago. Guiding, however, has proven far more lucrative for her than just catching and trapping snakes as a state-certified python hunter so she made it her full-time business in the last two years.

New Florida tourist thrill: Hunt, and maybe catch, a python

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Travel

Python Huntress Amy Siewe holds an invasive 10-foot Burmese Python, originally caught by her colleague Harold Antonio Rondon-Mena, during a hunting trip down Tamiami Trail on Sept. 5, in Miami. Siewe has caught over 600 pythons herself since trading a real estate career in Indiana to become a professional python hunter five years ago. Guiding, however, has proven far more lucrative for her than just catching and trapping snakes as a state-certified python hunter so she made it her full-time business in the last two years.

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Models hanging from the ceiling of the Zeppelin Museum in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, show several variations of the famous airships. The LZ 10 Schwaben, which debuted in 1911, was used as a commercial airship by DELAG, the world's first airline. Behind it is the L59, a military airship used in World War I.

Tread zeppelin: Museum near Frankfurt Airport pays tribute to iconic dirigibles

Using a whole cucumber as bait, a child tries his luck at catching a kappa at Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, Japan.

Win 10 million yen for catching a kappa, Japan’s most elusive mythical critter