Federal agents arrested the Chinese-born U.S. Navy sailor Jinchao “Patrick” Wei two years ago when he showed up for work one August morning at Naval Base San Diego.

The U.S. deployed two warships in a disputed South China Sea shoal where two Chinese ships collided while trying to drive away a smaller Philippine ship in a high-seas accident.

The special duty examinations at issue are used to qualify sailors for diving, nuclear field duty, special operations and submarine assignments.

Israeli gunfire killed at least 25 people seeking aid in Gaza, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will “allow” Palestinians to leave during an upcoming military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.

Trump was “very clear” in a virtual meeting with European leaders that the U.S. wants to achieve a ceasefire at the upcoming U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

Trump said he’ll “fully renovate” the entire infrastructure of the Kennedy Center to make it a “crown jewel” of arts and culture in the United States.

The three countries wrote in a letter to the United Nations that they were willing to trigger a process known as the “snapback” mechanism, which allows one of the Western parties to reimpose U.N. sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to discuss their deepening ties and war efforts against Ukraine ahead of Putin’s planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska.

The Justice Department this week settled lawsuits challenging race-based admissions at the U.S. Military Academy and the Air Force Academy, ending years of legal battles over how the elite military schools select officer candidates.

An Italian general who serves under the U.S. Navy’s highest-ranking admiral in Europe and Africa helped catch a suspected necklace thief in Naples.