There has been a resurgence of cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora, which causes them to resort to trickery to entrap other victims.

The Coast Guard rescued an injured teen Monday afternoon after he fell and suffered injuries that needed medical attention.

Bill White, believed to be the oldest living Marine veteran, served on active duty for 30 years and has been retired from the military for 55 years.

The new rocket launcher system will enable Marines to fire several shots per day from indoors, officials said.

After years in which NASA seemed like an afterthought in the national consciousness and was at the back of the line when the federal budget was allocated, the space agency appears to be on a roll.

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from California early Tuesday on a test flight to a target in the Pacific Ocean, the Air Force Global Strike Command said.

President Donald Trump said he expects fewer than 5,000 U.S. troops to be in Afghanistan by November and called America’s wars in the Middle East the “biggest mistake” in the country’s history during a television interview this week.

Between the peak season of May 15 to June 12, the number of military moves was down 82 percent compared to the same period last year, said John Becker, interim president of the American Moving and Storage Association.

The FTC has been fining big tech platforms in recent years for data lapses, including the recent record $5 billion fine against Facebook and a settlement with Google's YouTube over alleged collection of children's data that included a $170 million fine.

Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain during an inland march up the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it piled boats against the docks and caused floods and fires that displaced dozens of people.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump reiterated that he wants TikTok to be forced to cease operations in the U.S. by about Sept. 15 if it is not sold to Microsoft or another U.S.-based company.

On that clear, sunny morning, 7-year-old Howard Kakita stood on the roof of his grandparents’ bathhouse excitedly watching the vapor trails of an approaching B-29. The date was August 6, 1945. The city was Hiroshima, Japan.

Coast Guard Day is celebrated on Aug. 4 because that is when the service was established in 1790 when President George Washington signed the Tariff Act.

Jason Mounts, a National Guard captain and a veteran of multiple half-marathons, didn't know what happened when a 3-mile run wiped him out. Then the flu-like symptoms and fatigue that followed shouldn’t have lasted as long as they did. And where the heck did that rash come from? It was acute myeloid leukemia. And it was a really bad case.

In Huntsville, they usually call it SMD, but this year it will be vSMD. That “v” stands for “virtual,” and it is where the news begins about this week’s annual Space & Missile Defense symposium.

The Marine Corps identified the seven Marines and one sailor presumed dead after Thursday's training accident involving an assault amphibious vehicle in Southern California.

Capt. Carlos Sardiello, who oversaw recovery efforts aboard the carrier and its eventual return to San Diego, relinquished command of the Theodore Roosevelt on Friday.

Maj. Michael “Cal” Gentry, commander of the 354th Contracting Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base was on a 155-mile cycling trip and was roughly 30 miles from his destination when he was killed.

We are in a pandemic today that the world hasn't seen the likes of in 102 years. Mildred Geraldine "Gerri" Schappals is one of the few people in the world who has survived both.

Video of the event, which was held last year, surfaced on social media over the weekend. The event was held by the National Navy SEAL Museum, a nonprofit organization that is not overseen by the Navy.

The family of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who got a nine-year prison sentence in Russia for assaulting two police officers say the sentence is unjust and politically motivated.

Many governors are yet again urging the White House to extend federal funds for National Guard troops deployed to fight the coronavirus pandemic as cases of the virus continue to mount up across the country.

Nevada lawmakers passed a bill Sunday that would add the state to a growing list of U.S. states that will mail active voters ballots ahead of the November election amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bev Boro had not seen her older sister, Doris Crippen, in more than 50 years, though the two had long been searching for each other.

The FAA documents will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days, which will start the clock on a 45-day period for public comment, during which airline operators, industry experts and members of the public can provide feedback on the FAA proposal.

A huge wildfire in mountains east of Los Angeles that is Southern California’s biggest blaze so far this year was still raging Monday, with thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes.

The Army National Guard will move most of its brigades under the command of its eight division headquarters as it reorganizes its fighting formations to give the force more combat power and some soldiers new career opportunities, officials said.

The Navy appeared reluctant to reinstate former Navy SEAL and Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in 2019 until Vice President Mike Pence’s office intervened, according to newly released documents.

The Marine Corps said Sunday that it has called off the search for seven Marines and one sailor three days after an accident off the coast of southern California.

The accident happened late Thursday afternoon near San Clemente Island, when Marines reported the vehicle was taking on water, the service said in a statement. The injured Marines were taken to a local hospital, where they are in critical condition.

Q & A

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is getting ready to leave Congress behind, after opting for a long-shot presidential bid over a fifth House term.

Newly released documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, shed new light on the late accused sex trafficker's friendship with Prince Andrew, including the claim that the British royal worked to help Epstein secure a reduced sentence in a child prostitution case in Florida in 2008.

The Marine Corps also plans to trim some 12,000 troops from its ranks by 2030, eliminate law enforcement units, slash the number of cannon artillery battalions, reduce and restructure infantry battalions, and disband many manned aviation units.

Advocates and policy experts say the Pentagon’s current policy on transgender service members could be reversed in just 30 days, even distributing a memo that the potential Biden administration could use as a blueprint to reopen the military to these individuals.

Mario Eloy Pena, 48, was arrested Saturday and was charged with making a terroristic threat on suspicion of having threatened to “shoot up” the Army post.

Analysis

The U.S. Supreme Court this week witnessed an extraordinary breach of its rules of confidentiality. A series of CNN stories that shed light on the maneuvering among the justices in major cases are likely to send a chill through a court that is normally among the most leak-proof institutions in Washington.

An Air Force special operations unit received more than 90 awards after helping battle six extremist groups on recent deployments to the Middle East and Africa, the service said.

House Democrats are demanding a reckoning from the U.S. ambassador to Brazil after news reports there said he was urging country officials to lower ethanol tariffs to help President Donald Trump's chances of reelection.

Sara Faulkner had the “it” factor as the first woman to graduate from the Coast Guard’s helicopter rescue swimmer school in North Carolina. But her story had a bitter end, she says, after sexual harassment saddled her with PTSD and forced the 20-year service member into retirement.

A veteran battling opioid withdrawal and suicidal thoughts begged to stay at the Washington veterans hospital one night in early 2019. Instead, a doctor had the veteran escorted out by police and said the patient could “go shoot [themself]. I do not care.” Six days later, the veteran died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The remains were recovered in 2017 and identified last year as Army 2nd Lt. Lowell S. Twedt, the Nevada Army National Guard said Friday.

The House Oversight Committee has invited Louis DeJoy, the new postmaster general, to appear at a hearing next month to examine operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country.

When voters in Missouri and Kansas go to the polls Tuesday, it will cap a monthslong effort by officials in both states to strike a balance that allows voters to safely vote while holding down lines and minimizing the potential for testy confrontations over masks.

With the Trump administration aiming to deliver 300 million doses of vaccine against the coronavirus as early as January, state officials and health experts say they remain in the dark about key details and therefore are inadequately prepared for what is expected to be the largest single vaccination campaign ever undertaken.

Helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer were searching a roughly 200-square-mile area for seven Marines and a Navy corpsman.

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he formally was removing Tennessee Valley Authority chair Skip Thompson and another member of the board, and he threatened to remove other board members if they continued to hire foreign labor.

A military equipment supplier that has been accused of fraudulently misrepresenting its size in order to benefit from privileges associated with being a small business has received a Paycheck Protection Program small business loan worth at least $2 million, public records show.

A Dallas-based attorney has identified the man who fatally shot Garrett Foster last weekend during a downtown protest as U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Perry.

Lawmakers and advocates called for change Tuesday to the military’s handling of sexual harassment and assaults and described the recent killing of a female soldier as a “watershed moment” and a “reckoning” against a scourge of sexual violence in the armed forces.

Slow, grinding negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill are set to resume, but the path forward promises to be challenging. Both the Trump administration negotiating team and top Capitol Hill Democrats reported progress over the weekend even as they highlighted their differences.

The White House is exploring whether President Donald Trump can act on his own to extend enhanced unemployment benefits and eviction protection if lawmakers fail to act, people familiar with the matter said.

While the chief executive officers of the Big Four tech companies — Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, and Google — were derided as "Cyber Barons" during a grilling by Congress last week on antitrust issues, Elon Musk basked in Style-section treatment in the Sunday New York Times.

Kai Kahele, a Democrat, is so far ahead of everyone else that he has been spending the final four months before this week’s primary on active duty in the Hawaii National Guard as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic instead of campaigning.

An Columbus, Ohio-based Marine Reserve unit was among the hardest hit of the war in Iraq, losing 23 men after 180 deployed in early 2005. They held a reunion in 2015, and another was planned this month but had to be canceled amid coronavirus restrictions.

Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.

Inside submarines, the tightest of cramped spaces, six-foot social distances to slow the spread of coronavirus are hard to come by.

While Ghislaine Maxwell, the accused madam for Jeffrey Epstein, sits in prison, reams of newly unsealed papers have revived allegations about Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz's association with the multimillionaire sex offender, as well as claims that Maxwell joined "constant" orgies on his private Little St. James island.

A Manhattan prosecutor trying to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns told a judge Monday that he was justified in demanding them, citing public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”

A statement released by the National Directorate of Security late Saturday said Assadullah Orakzai was an intelligence leader for the Islamic State and special forces killed him near Jalalabad.

The vote to renominate President Donald Trump is set to be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Convention, citing the coronavirus.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Leo Katsareas was recently granted a special grooming accommodation that allows him to grow facial hair up to 4 inches — for now.

Tropical Storm Isaias was forecast to return to hurricane strength Monday before making landfall in the Carolinas, where coastal residents were warned to brace for flooding rains and storm surge.

In a statement, Microsoft said Microsoft and ByteDance have provided notice of their intent to explore a deal resulting in Microsoft owning and operating the TikTok service in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The company said it expects those talks to conclude by Sept. 15.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps the most forthcoming member of the Supreme Court when it comes to telling the public about her many health issues. But she waited more than four months to reveal that her cancer had returned and that she was undergoing chemotherapy.

Juan Tang, 37, has been held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail since July 23, after she was arrested by FBI agents when she emerged from hiding in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.

Florida posted 4,752 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, an unusually low number likely skewed by the closure of testing sites last week for Tropical Storm Isaias.

Across the country, families are facing fraught decisions — and fierce disagreements — over whether to see one another this summer.

Sarah Keys Evans was on leave from the Women's Army Corps when she boarded a bus to North Carolina. When the bus stopped in Roanoke Rapids on Aug. 2, 1952, Evans refused the request of the bus driver to move to the back.

President Donald Trump plans to take action on a what he sees as a broad array of national security risks presented by software connected to the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday.

As the academic year begins in many places across the country this week, parents are faced with the difficult choice of whether to send their children to school or to keep them home for remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many are unhappy with either option.

Officials dealing with surging cases of the coronavirus in Florida kept a close watch on the storm that was weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Saturday afternoon, but still brought heavy rain and flooding to Florida's Atlantic coast.

U.S. District Judge Esther Salas whose son was killed and husband wounded by a gunman disguised as a FedEx driver detailed her last moments with her only child in an emotional video posted online.

A St. Louis judge Friday ordered Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner's office to pay the civil penalty to John Solomon, a Fox News contributor who sued the office last year alleging it failed to respond to a request for records of contacts with key players during criminal investigations of former Gov. Eric Greitens in 2018.

Intelligence officials confirmed in recent days that foreign actors are actively seeking to compromise the private communications of "U.S. political campaigns, candidates and other political targets" while working to compromise the nation's election infrastructure.

U.S. lawmakers have raised intelligence and privacy concerns about TikTok’s ownership. The company has denied allegations that it shares user data with the Chinese government.

Events to mark the anniversary of the Aug. 3, 2019, Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, a largely Hispanic city of 700,000, have taken on a new look amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Early bands of heavy rain from Isaias lashed Florida’s east coast before dawn Sunday as authorities warily eyed the approaching storm, which threatened to snarl efforts to quell surging cases of the coronavirus across the region.

In a letter sent Friday to Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper, 34 lawmakers argued that a new policy he issued last month – which was intended to target the Confederate battle flag, but ultimately also banned Pride and Native Nations flags – undermines efforts of inclusion in the military.

Missteps by corrections officials handling releases from state prisons are fueling fears in some California counties that thousands of inmates eligible for early release will spread the coronavirus in their communities.

The Supreme Court declined by a 5-4 vote Friday to halt the Trump administration's construction of portions of the border wall with Mexico following a recent lower court ruling that the administration improperly diverted money to the project.

Mexico now has the third most COVID-19 deaths in the world, behind Brazil and the United States, where a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast on Saturday is threatening to complicate efforts to contain the virus.

Democrats in the House of Representatives are pushing back on President Donald Trump's escalation of the war on drugs and asking for an investigation into the use of U.S. funds in Colombia.

The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant.

NASA's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken bid farewell to the three men left behind as their SpaceX Dragon capsule undocked and headed toward a Sunday afternoon descent by parachute into the Gulf of Mexico.

Isaias snapped trees and knocked out power as it blew through the Bahamas on Saturday and weakened to a tropical storm as it churned toward the Florida coast, where it still threatened to complicate efforts to contain the coronavirus in a hot spot.

Analysis

Former President Barack Obama's endorsement this week of ending the legislative filibuster energized progressive senators and groups who have championed the issue and converted one previous skeptic, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Lawmakers reported progress on a huge coronavirus relief bill Saturday, as political pressure mounts to restore an expired $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit and send funding to help schools reopen.

Analysis

Over the past two months congressional approval ratings have crashed downward, after a sudden previous bump in approval. Fewer than 1 in 5 voters say they like what lawmakers are doing on Capitol Hill

Florida's coronavirus report on Saturday included 179 more resident deaths and 9,642 new COVID-19 cases, as the state kept away from the record-setting numbers of the past few days.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to a Senate panel that is investigating Hunter Biden, a son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Michael Avenatti is unable to pay his attorney ahead of his second criminal trial in federal court in Manhattan and has asked for representation by the public defender's office, also citing a conflict with his current counsel.

A UChicago Medicine infectious disease expert said the results are particularly encouraging for her institution given that it treats many patients of color.

California recorded 214 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, a record-setting daily total that capped a month of rising fatalities amid a surge of new COVID-19 cases.