After news broke that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had suggested wearing a wire to record President Donald Trump and had raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, Trump polled staff, called his outside network of advisers and kept a careful eye on what his favorite hosts on his favorite network were recommending.

The second claim against Judge Brett Kavanaugh dates to the 1983-84 academic year, which was his first at Yale University.

A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments involving U.S. veterans who say they were denied disability benefits after becoming ill from radiation exposure while responding to a 1966 accident involving American hydrogen bombs in Spain.

Charles Valentino Lobato was taken into custody in Castle Rock on suspicion of first-degree murder of Shawnee Tapia on Jan. 7.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday that a new special counsel be appointed to investigate efforts by enemies of President Donald Trump at the Justice Department.

The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance.

In the hours after a suspected terrorist attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday left more than two dozen dead, countries from around the world offered their sympathies to the victims. Some analysts wondered, however, why there wasn't a stronger response from the United States.

Details must be worked out on a tentative agreement for a Thursday hearing for Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegation that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her decades ago. Talks were continuing Sunday.

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The Navy announced late last year that it would disband the Navy Expeditionary Combat Camera command, by Oct. 1 to save money. Sailors who served in Combat Camera commands have been reassigned across the fleet.

China summoned the American ambassador and the defense attache and recalled its navy commander from a U.S. trip to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions Washington lodged over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment.

With rising unilateralism challenging its very existence, the United Nations convenes its annual meeting of world leaders Monday and will try once more to tackle problems together as a community of nations, addressing threats ranging from Mideast conflicts to the effects of global warming — and also encouraging the glimmer of hope over the nuclear standoff in North Korea.

An airman found dead Monday at a home on Altus Air Force Base, Okla., has been identified as Staff Sgt. Robert A. Alvarez with the 58th Airlift Squadron.

The Navy Times reported Friday the unidentified SEAL based in California was being held in the brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, though he has not been charged with a crime.

K.T. McFarland, who briefly served as former national security adviser Michael Flynn's deputy, now has said that he might have been referring to sanctions when they spoke in late December 2016 after Flynn’s calls with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.

At a political rally Friday night in Missouri, President Donald Trump lashed out against what he perceives as anti-Trump bias in the Justice Department, promising more firings after reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording Trump.

Trump will address the United Nations on Tuesday on the back of an upbeat summit between South and North Korea, where Kim Jong Un promised to dismantle a major rocket launch site and the North’s main nuclear complex at Nyongbyon if it gets some incentive from Washington.

Arthur J. Perrault, 80, stood before a U.S. magistrate judge Friday to face newly unsealed federal criminal charges that he sexually molested an 11-year-old boy while serving at Kirtland Air Force Base from 1991 to 1992.

Scientists at sea on the largest ship in the Coast Guard’s fleet have seen signs of change as the ice in the north Bering Sea, the gateway to the Arctic from the Pacific Ocean, has been diminishing.

As beguiling and powerful as Jane Fonda is onscreen, she has yet to play a role that's a match for her whiplash-inducing life of artistry, celebrity and polarizing activism.

Long-lost photos from a Marine’s military days might have remained missing for another 25 years. But Monique Bourassa Fuchs found the Vietnam War-era photos — along with a letter from the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover — hiding in the ceiling above her kitchen while renovating her home.

President Donald Trump challenged the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.

With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land with nearly 3 feet of rain, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground amid a sprawling disaster that's beginning to feel like it will never end.

The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the Independence-class Kansas City is 418 feet long and capable of operating in excess of 40 knots. It will have a core crew of 40 sailors and carry a pair of MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and an MQ-8 Fire Scout drone.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump last year to expose chaos in the administration, according to two people familiar with the discussions. One of the people, who was present when the remarks were made, said Rosenstein was being sarcastic about wearing a "wire."

President Donald Trump on Friday delayed the planned release of documents from the FBI's Russia investigation, saying the Justice Department's inspector general has been asked to review the records amid concerns from law enforcement and U.S. allies about their disclosure.

The 12th Flying Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph resumed training Friday morning after one of its aircraft crashed three days ago near a shopping mall, officials for the unit announced.

A wide-ranging study of sexual assault and harassment among military ranks found the biggest risks are on a few of its largest bases, especially for the Army and Marine Corps. The greatest risk, however, is on the Navy’s fleet of ships.

The highest-ranking officer in the National Guard has promised North Carolina whatever support it needs to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

Experts say that because of how memory works, it's possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — believe what they say.

Although they have lost, at least temporarily, many of the freedoms they fought to protect, they saluted the U.S. flag against the backdrop of brick walls and razor wire.

A Fort Carson brigade will go from shoe leather to wheels in a shift that will add about 200 soldiers to the post.

A study released this month found that subjects who did well on test questions as teenagers in 1960 had a lower incidence of Alzheimer's and related dementias in their 60s and 70s than those who scored poorly.

Magic Leap Inc. is pushing to land a contract with the U.S. Army to build augmented-reality devices for soldiers to use on combat missions, according to government documents and interviews with people familiar with the process.

The U.S. Army has found a fix for a glitch in the M4 and M4A1 assault rifles that causes the weapons to unintentionally fire, officials said Friday.

The Army had hoped to enlist 76,500 recruits in 2018, a goal that was lowered from 80,000 in April after more soldiers than expected elected to remain in the service.

Col. Lewis Henry Dunagan's family thought arrangements had been made that included having an escort meet Dunagan's casket when they landed. But when the family arrived, there was no escort and none of the crew members seemed aware they were a military family traveling with the remains of a loved one, according to his daughter.

Five former Department of Veterans Affairs secretaries and more than two dozen veterans groups joined the fight this week over legislation that would extend Agent Orange benefits to tens of thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off the coast during the Vietnam War.

A fire broke out at an apartment complex for seniors in southeast Washington on Wednesday afternoon, prompting firefighters, bystanders and Marines to rescue residents, officials said.

The Army will convert two of its existing brigade combat teams to add firepower to the service as it prepares for a potential fight with the more advanced militaries of near-peer adversaries, service officials announced Thursday.

Tom Cruise has been shooting scenes for the next Top Gun movie in the central San Joaquin Valley and he was spotted this week at Lemoore Naval Air Station.

The bullets struck Jason Washington's chest, back, abdomen and legs during the fatal encounter on June 29, according to report.

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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, met with Robert Wilkie to try to coax the new VA secretary out of his department’s newly stiffened opposition to a House-passed bill that would extend VA health care and compensation to tens of thousands of former sailors and Marines with Agent Orange-associated ailments. “We haven’t convinced him yet,” Brown said.

What appears to have triggered the observatory's complete shutdown was a janitor that had allegedly been using the observatory's WiFi to download and distribute child pornography, according to newly unsealed court documents.

A woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland got into an argument at work Thursday morning and began shooting colleagues, killing three before fatally turning the gun on herself, authorities and witnesses said.

The remains of an Army master sergeant from Indiana and a private first class from North Carolina were included in the 55 cases of remains of missing Korean War veterans turned over in July by North Korea, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday.

The Navy says its attack submarine USS Pittsburgh had to return to its Connecticut base recently because of what was described as a "minor" moisture leak within its nuclear propulsion plant.

All federal lawsuits against the U.S. Air Force over a Texas church shooting last year that left more than two dozen worshippers dead will be consolidated into one case, a judge says.

Capt. Daniel Chamberlain Lehman's body was found early Saturday east of downtown Colorado Springs. He was an Army intelligence officer who graduated in 2012 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Fabian Rebolledo, an Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2012, is now determined to help other deported veterans who served their country get back home.

Six soldiers were climbing Smugglers Notch in Jeffersonville, Vermont, in March when the snow gave way. Five of the soldiers were hospitalized for their injuries.

Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday he hoped the 55 cases of Korean War remains returned last month would be a “vanguard of what’s to come,” for on-the-ground searches in North Korea for more missing American servicemembers.

Paddlers who use the Potomac River near President Donald Trump's Loudoun County, Virginia, golf course filed a federal lawsuit Thursday morning to try to reverse a policy that closes a two-mile stretch of the river when the president is playing golf.

Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike there and inundated a large lake, raising concerns of a potential breach.

The White House is warning foreign adversaries that the U.S. is preparing to step up its offensive cyber capabilities as part of a new government-wide strategy.

This was a sub worth diving into. Eleven sandwich shops in Maine combined forces to create a 160-foot-long Italian sandwich.

After months of delay, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now has a sentencing date. A federal judge on Wednesday set Flynn's sentencing for Dec. 18, more than a year after the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the presidential transition.

A stopgap bill the Senate approved on Tuesday did not address the funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, although separate spending bills being considered in the House and Senate provide funding for the wall.

The U.S. hopes to begin face-to-face negotiations with North Korea next month on terms for resuming on-the-ground searches in North Korea for remains of American servicemen, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday.

Early Thursday, a man drove to the curb outside the airport, left his car running, hopped a fence and boarded an Airbus 321 American Airlines aircraft sitting in a maintenance facility. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating and trying to determine a motive in the case.

A daughter who never returned home, a son gunned down point-blank, a mom who was brutally attacked — all deaths at the hands of immigrants in the country illegally, all gripping stories the White House has been eager to share. Yet the government's own statistics show such cases are far more likely to be the exception than the rule.

From hundreds of feet in the air, the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter spots boats navigating through large swaths of water. The tops of roofs are the only sign that the area in Brunswick County is a neighborhood instead of a river.

While the U.S. government has invested billions of dollars to help clean up and repair the U.S. territory , much work remains. Major power outages are still being reported, tens of thousands of insurance claims are still pending and nearly 60,000 homes still have temporary roofs unable to withstand a Category 1 hurricane.

Prosecutors have refused charges against three Marines and a recent Tulane University graduate who were accused of raping two women at an Uptown residence after a night of drinking.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Johnathon Stone promised his wife, who died of cancer, that he would continue to do good things in the world, take care of their four young children and find a new love. His journey to make it through loss inspired his book, "Finding Good."

Two pilots, a trainer and a student flying a T-6A Texan II aircraft ejected safely from the plane before it crashed near Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio.

A former Marine already sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally attacking two young girls in a suburban Chicago park 13 years ago.

A military intelligence unit asked Army Reserve attorneys to scrutinize its completed security screening packets for admissions of potential crimes by immigrant recruits, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump flew to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina on Wednesday to tour storm damage and meet with state officials. "Our state took a gut punch, Mr. President, and our people are still reeling," Gov. Roy Cooper told Trump, who responded that the federal government "will be there 100 percent."

Mark Judge, a high school friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that he has no memory of an alleged 1982 sexual assault by Kavanaugh and does not want to testify.

President Donald Trump has demanded the "immediate declassification" of sensitive materials about the Russia investigation, but the agencies responsible are expected to propose redactions that would keep some information secret, according to three people familiar with the matter.

State-backed hackers are still trying to break into the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides — and a lawmaker focused on cybersecurity says the Senate's security office should stop refusing to help defend them.

Chief Petty Officer Steve Kelly does the cabbage patch in the front seat of his lifted Ford pickup. "Who let the dogs out?" he sings as he swings his arms in a circle. "Coast Guard, Coast Guard." The other members of his Coast Guard team from Kentucky laugh or roll their eyes in embarrassment.

Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged.

Horses for Heroes Cowboy Up! offers a free horsemanship program to all post-9/11 combat veterans and active-duty military personnel, especially those dealing with combat trauma or physical injuries sustained during their service.

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A Texas great-grandmother thinks she’s finally gotten revenge on the massive alligator that ate her miniature horse a few years ago. “Don’t mess with Nana,” she said.

Two women in the back of a sheriff's van drowned Tuesday evening when deputies tried to drive down a road flooded by tropical storm Florence.

President Donald Trump says the Sept. 11 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, renewed his resolve to push for his stalled southern border wall.

In a matter of hours, 65 women signed onto a letter rallying behind high court nominee and their high school friend Brett Kavanaugh as someone who "has always treated women with decency and respect."

The owner of a Texas company that is being sued by several states over its plan to disseminate blueprints for making untraceable 3D-printed guns is alleged to have had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward, police said in an affidavit filed Wednesday.

In the water, Matthew Kinne swam out to the truck, but both cab doors were locked. Inside, the driver was on the phone with 911, but with the air bags deployed, he couldn't unlock the doors.

According to prosecutors, Joseph Glenn Osborne Sr., 68, and Joseph Glenn Osborne II, 31, falsified documents to become eligible government contractors and then defaulted on their duties.

Two years after the most controversial sports protests in a generation began, Nate Boyer is frustrated because he feels their message and intent have been misinterpreted or intentionally hijacked.

Air Force regulations don’t let married couples fly in the same plane with each other, though Lt. Col. John Avery and Lt. Col. Jennifer Avery did fly together in a T-38 training jet before they were married.

Disney has extended its Military Salute Tickets to include Department of Defense civilian and full-time military contractors. The tickets were previously been limited to active duty and retired military personnel only.

The officials described the death aboard the aircraft carrier as “a mishap” on the ship’s flight deck. The Bush was at sea conducting carrier qualification training after it had departed from Norfolk, Va., last week.

Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Georgia, Texas, Oregon Tennessee and Colorado were removed from high-risk status based on new performance statistics released Tuesday.

Two pilots, a trainer and a student flying a T-6A Texan II aircraft ejected safely from the plane before it crashed near Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio.

Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy said the military has held its deployment of about 13,000 troops steady since the weekend and he does not anticipate a major change in that force size.

The Coast Guard Cutters Tahoma, Tampa and Seneca intercepted the six suspected smuggling vessels between late July and August in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Senate on Tuesday approved a compromise on a massive spending measure that would direct more than $670 billion towards a wave of Defense Department increases, including the largest boost to servicemembers’ pay in nearly a decade and new gains in the number of troops, equipment and weapons for the 2019 fiscal year.

Two Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in southeastern North Carolina will remain closed until next week due to the catastrophic flooding that continues to cripple the area days after Hurricane Florence first made landfall.

Mark D’Amico, the Burlington County, N.J., man accused of taking GoFundMe donations meant for Johnny Bobbitt Jr., said Tuesday he looks forward to explaining what happened to the money, saying it would become “crystal clear” how the funds were spent.

She'd been holding Kaiden to her chest. But now she was only holding onto his forearm. The waters whooshed by with surprising force, pulling him away. She had his wrist. Then his hand. Then his fingers. Then he was gone.

Asked by a reporter whether such reports should be taken seriously, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis replied, "No. I wouldn't take it seriously at all. It's like most of those kind of things in this town" that he said are fanned by baseless rumor.

Members of Louisiana's congressional delegation are seeking to rename a veteran's clinic in Lake Charles after a Medal of Honor recipient who died in Vietnam.

A Senate committee chairman, several committee lawmakers and a top Defense Department official on Tuesday said Russia is skirting several critical treaties with the United States to limit its stockpile of missiles and other weapons.

President Donald Trump is flexing his executive power to declassify secret documents in the Russia investigation, an extraordinary move he says will ensure that "really bad things" at the FBI are exposed.

What was once Hurricane Florence has been plodding across North Carolina, turning cities into islands. The new landscape has pressed the Coast Guard, operating here many miles from the coast, into a combination of search and rescue service, FedEx and pet whisperer.

The Trump administration on Tuesday released a new biodefense strategy that it said takes a more comprehensive approach to preparing the nation for deliberate biological attacks and natural outbreaks of infectious disease.

Catastrophic flooding spawned by former hurricane Florence is expected to worsen in coming days, prompting the U.S. military to keep thousands of troops prepared to help and begin flying aircraft from Navy ships nearby to survey the worst areas, a U.S. general said.