Derek Chauvin, the fired police officer charged in a Minneapolis man’s death that sparked protests around the world, spent eight years as a military policeman in the Army Reserve, according to his official service record.

Two Republican-led Senate committees have launched election-year investigations into the Justice Department's Russia probe, resurrecting the issue at the urging of President Donald Trump while reigniting the partisan hostility that comes along with it.

The USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Harry S. Truman conducted dual carrier operations in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. It was the first time carriers of the Ford and Nimitz classes have operated together.

Gregory Wong drew the attention of troops when he arrived in downtown Los Angeles at about 1:30 a.m. in a civilian sedan dressed in clothing similar to the National Guard’s uniform and carrying an assault rifle and a pistol.

Former Marine Corps commandant Gen. Robert Neller on Thursday became the latest high-ranking retired U.S. military official to weigh in on the death of George Floyd, urging national leaders in an open letter to “speak out for justice and fairness.”

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday ordered a portion of the active-duty troops he had deployed to military installations on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. to return to their home base, defense officials said.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday that she is struggling over her support for her fellow Republican, President Trump, and praised former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for a statement in which he accused Trump of trying to deliberately divide Americans.

helicopter search and rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island airlifted a 28-year-old female hiker after she suffered a compound arm fracture Wednesday, June 3, on the Twin Sisters in Whatcom County.

Last year, Fort Bragg soldiers training as snipers were hidden in the woods on post when an all-terrain vehicle came speeding past them. That type of incident happens too frequently for Fort Bragg officials, who are warning residents to stay away from training areas on post.

Spraying people with tear gas causes them to cough, shout and scream — and that will send infectious droplets from an infected person to others, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Police in a small San Francisco Bay Area community were about to help authorities in neighboring Oakland keep the peace during a protest when a more pressing crisis hit home: groups of thieves were pillaging malls, setting fire to a Walmart and storming a car dealership.

Washington officials said Thursday they believe they have recovered about half of the hundreds of millions in unemployment benefits paid to criminals who used stolen identities to file claims during the coronavirus pandemic.

Two of three Minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd were rookies barely off probation, defense attorneys said Thursday.

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed as soon as possible from Richmond's Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday, pledging the state will no longer “preach a false version of history.”

Of the demonstrations that have engulfed the city and the nation, and the violence that has taken place, he said, "I'm proud of the protests but I'm not proud of the destruction. My brother wasn't about that. The Floyds are a God-fearing family."

The thousands of people protesting the death of George Floyd have a "civic duty" to be tested for the coronavirus and help New York avoid a spike in new cases as it slowly restarts its economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.

Irene Triplett's father, who'd served as a private in the Confederate Army before defecting to the Union, was on his second marriage when she was born in 1930. He was just a few weeks away from turning 84.

At 244 pounds, Donald Trump was a pound heavier than at his last physical, but his cholesterol was 29 points lower. He is medically obese, defined as having a body mass index above 30.

For the Pan Am flight attendants, there were no parades after the war, nor much movement to celebrate their role or their place as accidental pioneers in military history.

The calmer protests came on the same day that prosecutors charged three more police officers and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case.

An Alaska man accused of laundering $1 billion held in South Korea for Iran funneled nearly all the money through the United Arab Emirates, U.S. federal court documents released early Thursday show.

The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office released the full autopsy results performed on George Floyd with his family’s permission.

Thousands of Americans — many without protective face masks — have jammed the nation’s streets over the past week in defiance of social distancing guidelines from governors and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Wednesday told members of three congressional committees that before he was abruptly fired, he was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's treatment of staffers as well as the secretary's decision to approve a multibillion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

Although the Pentagon's spending report was delivered a month ahead of its congressional deadline, there is a broader concern that the federal government is moving too slowly to address the crisis.

The U.S. Navy and science fiction will converge in Annapolis at the second NAVYCON. The event, last held in 2017, will use Zoom to hold the conference online.

Massive protests across the nation have sparked fears of a second wave of coronavirus cases as thousands of demonstrators gather close together, yelling and holding hands, all of which could amplify the transmission of the deadly virus.

Base officials have yet to release the circumstances of the shooting, but the parents of Airman 1st Class Natasha Raye Aposhian, 21, said Tuesday that their daughter was the victim of domestic violence and killed in the incident.

Three members of President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago resort acted as advisers and organizers at the Department of Veterans Affairs from 2016 to 2018, the Government Accountability Office determined after an investigation into the private citizens’ involvement in the federal agency.

The Army will place female infantry and armor enlisted soldiers into its last nine all-male brigade combat teams after changing rules that required multiple women in unit leadership.

The company plans to launch another 60 of its own internet satellites to low-Earth orbit on Wednesday at about 9:25 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch pad 40.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday said he does not support the use of active-duty troops to quash the violence that has stemmed from protests in many U.S. cities over police brutality and racism.

The roughly 1,600 soldiers deployed this week from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Drum, N.Y., to undisclosed military installations in the national capital region remained “on alert” Wednesday afternoon, defense officials said.

The town hall session followed statements published by Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein on social media acknowledging legitimate grievances expressed by thousands of protesting Americans.

President Donald Trump signed an order Tuesday night to extend the authorization for National Guard troops to deploy through Aug. 21 with federal funding in support of coronavirus missions.

Images posted to social media showed graffiti on the memorial's central fountain which read, "Do black vets count?"

"We’re torn apart by the loss of our daughter to a senseless act of domestic violence," wrote the parents of airman Natasha Aposhian.

The Army’s move to promote 2nd Lt. Richard W. Collins III to first lieutenant recognizes his bravery “in the face of evil,” according to a statement from lawmakers.

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright said he struggles with “the Air Force’s own demons," including racial disparity in military justice and a “lack of diversity in our senior officer ranks.”

Pfc. Vanessa Guillen was last seen at 1 p.m. April 22 in the parking lot of the Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood.

Senior Pentagon officials on Tuesday said those troops — primarily military police and combat engineers — never entered Washington and are unlikely to do so unless the more than 2,000 National Guard troops operating in the city prove to be insufficient to aid the law enforcement response in the capital.

The base did not identify the deceased airmen by name, but said both were active-duty members assigned to the 319th Reconnaissance Wing.

Department of Veterans Affairs offices in downtown Washington were vandalized as peaceful weekend protests over George Floyd’s death devolved into clashes with police and destruction.

A soldier with the Minnesota National Guard fired his weapon Sunday night at a moving vehicle in Minneapolis as street protests turned violent over the death of a man in police custody

After calls to remove the stones, the department first insisted it would continue to preserve them “like every past administration.”

"I just feel like we should do something," said Caesar Junker, a sports medicine doctor and a colonel in the Air Force, of vandalism in Washington D.C. "It's so wrong to see these things happen."

Hours after uniformed Secret Service agents clashed with demonstrators outside the White House, President Donald Trump on Saturday used Twitter to praise their restraint but also to accuse the District of Columbia's mayor of refusing to allow her police department to help.

There are still exemptions to the travel restrictions as with the previous travel guidance, including allowing new recruits to attend basic training.

Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein on social media Tuesday endorsed a message of frustration the previous day by his service’s top enlisted leader and promised action against bigotry and inequality in the service.

Prosecutors charged a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder on Wednesday, and for the first time leveled charges against three other officers at the scene, according to criminal complaints.

Some 17,000 National Guard troops have been activated in 23 states and in Washington D.C. to aid state and local law enforcement with civil unrest operations, according to officials.

The white Minneapolis police officer seen on video kneeling on George Floyd's neck was arrested on murder charges Friday and accused in court papers of ignoring another officer who was worried about the handcuffed black man who died after pleading that he could not breathe.

More than 140 Army soldiers and trainees at Fort Benning, Ga., and more than 70 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., tested positive for the coronavirus, the Army said

Fort Gordon Spc. Joshua Bolden doesn't consider himself a hero after saving a mother and two children from a flipped vehicle after an accident Wednesday.

Air Force Col. Thomas Falzarano, who commanded the service’s 21st Space Wing, was found dead Tuesday at his home on Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

A construction crane accident at Fort Leonard Wood has claimed the life of a civilian.

With testing underway on five experimental vaccines in China and four in the United States, the race to produce a vaccine for COVID-19 has taken on political dimensions that echo jockeying for technological dominance during the Cold War, including the space race after the launch of Sputnik in 1957.

Upon his death, 2nd Lt. Ralph I. Musson, was tossed in a common grave by his captors at the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp No. 1 on Luzon. Nearly 78 years later, the U.S. government is sorting through the remains excavated from the camp, attempting to identify every American — and give them all proper burials.

Eddie Gallagher was accused of several war crimes by some of his platoon subordinates. The trial and its fallout received national media coverage.

Police officers and National Guard soldiers enforcing a curfew in Louisville killed a man early Monday when they returned fire after someone in a large group fired at them first, the city's police chief said.

FBI investigators said they no longer believe a second person was involved in the shooting last week at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi that left a sailor wounded as the gunman attempted to speed passed a security gate onto the Texas base.

Misinformation about the extent of the unrest in Washington, D.C. and false claims about widespread communications outages burgeoned Monday on Twitter.

Sgt. Simon Zamudio died at a suburban Chicago hospital after contracting the virus, according to Army officials and an obituary announcing his death. He was assigned to the 371st Theater Movement Control Element at Fort Sheridan, Ill.

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to take action to bring the city of Minneapolis "under control," calling violent protesters outraged by the death of a black man in police custody "thugs" and saying that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

A nearly $3 million military-funded program aims to find out whether robots can drive through tomorrow’s battlefields without human input.

An unspecified number of active-duty troops comprising of military police and engineers also were moved Monday to the “national capital region,” but are not yet in Washington, according to a senior defense official.

ANALYSIS

President Donald Trump's warning that he would deploy the United States military to any state that refuses to take aggressive action against rioting would be met with likely legal opposition, and strong opposition from governors seeing it as an overreaction.

The National Guard of the District of Columbia is investigating the use of one of its helicopters to make a "show of force" against protesters near the White House, while President Donald Trump is encouraging authorities to get tougher to quell the unrest over George Floyd's death.

"As we say in Tennessee, 'That dog won't hunt' — it didn't work," said William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Schaffner, who was not involved in the trial, praised it as "rigorously done."

Coastguardsman stationed in Traverse City were launched over the weekend on a report of a kayaker who was stranded on the shore of Georgian Bay in Canada, according to an announcement by U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City.

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Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein conceded that, in hindsight, he would not have signed an application to continue monitoring a former Trump campaign adviser during the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and claimed he did not know of the significant problems that have since been identified with it.

U.S. law enforcement officials vowed "even greater law enforcement resources and support" in the nation's capital Tuesday night to respond to protests, as one local county pulled its officers out, saying they were used "for a purpose not worthy of our mutual aid obligations."

Navy officials declined to specify exactly how many USS Carter Hall crew members were infected, but a spokesperson said the infected individuals were "all doing well."

The shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on Thursday that left the gunman dead, a sailor injured and a second person of interest at large is being investigated as “terrorism related,” the FBI said.

President Donald Trump announced the news via tweet, complaining the state's governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, and other officials "refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena" and were not "allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised."

The Pentagon has launched a drive to collect plasma from military members and others who have recovered from COVID-19.

“We have the greatest country in the world," Donald Trump said while addressing the nation in the White House's idyllic Rose Garden. “We're going to keep it safe."

ANALYSIS

President Donald Trump's threat Friday to involve the military more deeply in the response to protests and looting in Minneapolis is unlikely to come to fruition, but he has the authority to deploy active-duty forces or National Guardsmen under his control, defense officials and national security experts said.

Airmen, including Space Force service members, by must wear coyote brown boots and T-shirts and spice brown U.S. flag patches with their two-piece flight uniforms and utility uniforms in the operational camouflage pattern by Sept. 1.

More than 4,600 remote-controlled helicopter drones have been seized by federal agents in Detroit, officials said.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was designating Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization after another night of violent protests over racism and police violence erupted in cities across the nation.

A small team of soldiers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade will deploy next week to Colombia to aid that country in its longstanding fight against drugs, defense officials announced Thursday.

Less than a month after Heath Robinson died, a bill named in his honor will be introduced in Congress. The former sergeant first class in the Ohio Army National Guard died May 6 at age 39 after battling lung cancer for three years.

The Pentagon said Saturday it was ready to provide military help to authorities scrambling to contain unrest in Minneapolis, where George Floyd's death has sparked widespread protests, but Gov. Tim Walz has not requested federal troops.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., described Trump’s statements as destabilizing, irresponsible and a step toward autocratic rule.

The Navy has a new secretary to lead the service, amid a pandemic and an upcoming budget fight on Capitol Hill.

GALLERY

Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station as demonstrations flared across the U.S. over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck.

Gabriel Ramirez spent his childhood dreaming of being a Marine, but that dream seemed unattainable as a 365-pound teen nicknamed “Meatball.”

Protests were largely peaceful and the nation's streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off demonstrations that at times brought violence and destruction along with pleas to stop police brutality and injustice against African Americans.

Tear gas can be made of a variety of substances that irritate the mucous membranes of the eyes and cause tearing. It was first used in combat by the French against the Germans in World War I. The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service began using it to disperse crowds in the 1920s.

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to block Chinese airlines from flying to the U.S. in an escalation of trade and travel tensions between the two countries.

Voters across America were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops — waiting in line hours after polls closed in some cases — after election officials dramatically reduced the number of in-person voting sites

In backing away from at-home exams, the testing organization cited concerns that many students would not have access at home to three hours of reliable Internet service that would be required to complete the multiple-choice exam.