An Army commander of a Houston-area recruiting company has been suspended for distributing a memo that included a phrase used in concentration camps by the Nazis during World War II, officials from Army Recruiting Command confirmed Friday.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to note that the Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jerome Powell, "as usual...did NOTHING!" and asked whether Powell or China's leader is "our bigger enemy."

The baby wasn't expected for another month, maybe six weeks. But American hostage Caitlan Coleman was going into labor, and there was nowhere to turn for help.

A year after the death of his father, John S. McCain IV is wrestling with his past and his future.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has called for an expanded review of the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps to include an assessment of the Marines’ Judge Advocates after a recent court-martial raised concerns about the service’s ability to handle legal cases effectively.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, the Supreme Court said Friday.

"We believe this is one of the largest cases of its kind in U.S. history," U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna told a news conference. "We are taking a major step to disrupt these criminal networks."

Lance Cpl. Andrew Johnson is charged with unpremeditated murder and several offenses related to his alleged careless handling of firearms related to the shooting death of Lance Cpl. Riley Kuznia.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a dual-commissioning ceremony for two Legend-class national security cutters Saturday at U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu.

Plans are underway to begin testing drinking water wells south of the Air Force Academy after unsafe levels of chemicals were found at four locations on base.

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Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles poured a fortune into right-wing causes, transforming the American political landscape and shaping U.S. policies on such issues as climate change and government regulation, died Friday at 79.

Alaska’s congressional delegation has expressed concern about the Pentagon’s decision to cancel a project designed to improve ground-based interceptor missiles, raising questions about additional missiles set to be housed at Fort Greely outside Fairbanks.

Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a Harvard-educated Marine veteran who struggled to gain traction in a crowded Democratic presidential field, announced Friday that he would leave the campaign, making him the third candidate to depart the race this week.

The indictment says at least $978,000 in gross proceeds were received over several years through steering contracts to vendors and inflating supply prices.

Patrick Byrne's resignation Thursday came after the company issued a bizarre statement last week in which the former CEO referred to the "Deep State," called federal agents "Men in Black" and confirmed a journalist's stories detailing his relationship with Maria Butina, a gun-rights activist who was sentenced to prison for being an unregistered agent of Russia.

Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S. Postal Service.

Campaigning under the stifling August sun, Joe Biden assailed President Donald Trump's trade war with China, accusing him of squandering a strong economy and putting Americans' financial security at risk.

This week, as parents took first-day-of-school photos of their children, Patricia Orr did the same for her husband, Terry. Except Orr is not entering first, second or third grade; the 81-year-old Army veteran is beginning a master's program at UT, with a textbook-laden backpack and all.

Attorneys general from a dozen western states want the Trump administration to halt a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that they say usurps states' authority over their own water.

Mylan and Pfizer are still struggling with manufacturing issues for the EpiPen anti-allergy injector as the critical back-to-school season gets underway and a rival generic product hits the market.

The acting U.S. Homeland Security secretary has visited a camp with hundreds of migrants who survived the perilous jungle border crossing from Colombia to Panama.

President Donald Trump presented 91-year-old basketball legend Bob Cousy with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday, praising the Boston Celtics star as "one of the all-time greats in the history of sports."

The Marine Corps recently remodeled several cottages at San Onofre Beach in Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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National Guardsman Richard Ragland drowned in 2017 while enjoying time with friends while visiting a Tennessee waterfall. The recently recovered SD card from his GoPro camera was found by a travel vlogger.

Lt. Col. Anne McClain is one of 12 female astronauts who could become the first woman on the moon by 2024, a NASA list shows. She’s also the only one of the 12 who’s in the Army.

For a cool $8.5 million, you could be the proud owner of a “fully functioning” F-16 A/B Fighting Falcon fighter jet that a South Florida company acquired from Jordan.

The Air Force has completed inspections of more than a quarter of its fleet of C-130 Hercules transports, which were pulled from flying operations after the discovery of signs of cracking on the wing joints.

Crews plan on installing 30-foot steel fencing to replace older barriers on two miles in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, next to the official border crossing known as the Lukeville Port of Entry.

In November 1944, Marthe Cohn was recruited by the French Army Intelligence Service to serve as a Nazi spy, a calling that she excelled at, but was not recognized for until decades later. Now, the 99-year-old Holocaust survivor travels around the world with her husband, 93-year-old Major Cohn, sharing her story with anyone who will listen.

It was supposed to be a fun joke. Create an event on Facebook that was so absurd, everyone would have a laugh, share a meme and then move on with their lives. Instead, Matty Roberts got a visit from the FBI, the Air Force has warned it is ready for anything and rural Lincoln County, Nev., is preparing to declare a state of emergency.

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and 10 other large phone companies have struck an agreement with 51 attorneys general to enact technology to block robocalls before they reach consumers.

Paratroopers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Benning in Georgia and MacDill Air Force Base in Florida participated in the operation.

Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.

The U.S. Coast Guard will suspend at sundown a massive search for two firefighters who disappeared during a fishing trip off the coast of Florida, officials said at a Thursday news conference.

Scientists are testing how pharmaceutical-grade MDMA can be used in combination with psychotherapy to help patients with a severe form of PTSD that has not responded to other treatments.

From the beginning of the 18th Airborne Corps, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Rock Merritt was there. That was the message that Merritt, 96, who was the Corps' first command sergeant major, shared during a 75th anniversary celebration held Thursday at Fort Bragg.

Mark Wright, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said details about the technical problems that led to the project's termination would not be released "due to the classified nature of the program."

A bagpiper played a somber "Amazing Grace" as Louisiana's first and only female governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, returned to the state Capitol for her last time Thursday, carried in her casket by an honor guard for public viewing.

Nan Songer, a chemist assistant and naturalist, established a spidery in Yucaipa in 1939 and supplied webs to make crosshairs for equipment such as scopes and sights, including the Norden Bombsight.

The White House has discarded plans to seek the return to the Treasury of up to $4 billion in unspent foreign aid amid intense pressure from Capitol Hill, according to a senior administration official and others familiar with the decision.

Sgt. Timothy Scott Woods II of Salem, Va., died Tuesday at Providence Alaska Medical Center following a motorcycle crash Aug. 17, 2019.

The pilot of a small plane that went down in the waters off Northern California is a self-professed thrill-seeker whose stunts have sometimes gotten him in trouble with authorities.

ULA launched an important payload for the U.S. Air Force Thursday: The second in a series of next-generation GPS satellites that will provide connectivity for more than 4 billion military, commercial and civil users.

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When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland, it was met with derision, seen as an awkward and inappropriate approach of an erstwhile ally. But it might also be an Aladdin's Cave of oil, natural gas and rare earth minerals just waiting to be tapped as the ice recedes.

Nine British Royal Air Force Red Arrows were joined by six F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Thunderbirds and four F-35A Lightning stealth aircraft on two passes high above the Hudson River.

More than 180 homes on Fort Bragg will be renovated and 95 new homes will be built. The construction, renovation and demolition of the homes represent about a $100 million investment by Corvias, the company that manages housing property on the base.

The initial headquarters for the Pentagon's new Space Command will be at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., said Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Republican.

The 14-count indictment unsealed Wednesday in San Antonio, Texas, charges five people living in the United States and the Philippines with coordinating an identify-theft and fraud scheme using personal information stolen by a former civilian employee at a U.S. Army base in Korea.

The lawsuit claims the VA’s lack of effort to preserve or recover the emails is in violation of the Federal Records Act and Administrative Procedures Act.

Spravato was approved in March by the Food and Drug Administration to treat severe depression. It’s a nasal spray based on the anesthetic ketamine, which is designated as a “club drug” by the National Institute on Drug Abuses.

Julia Yllescas posed for senior photos that were edited to include her late father, Capt. Robert J. Yllescas, who died after being injured by an IED in Afghanistan.

A union representing Department of Veterans Affairs employees filed a grievance over the agency’s recent decision to include workers in a smoking ban that will soon go into effect at VA facilities nationwide.

Operation Babylift took infants and small children from Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, to new homes in America and other developed countries as communist forces closed in on the South Vietnamese capital.

The smoke-free policy goes into effect in October for veterans, visitors, volunteers, contractors and vendors, while employees will have until January to adjust to the change, according to a VA news release.

An arms dealer who tried to buy anti-aircraft missiles and sell them to clients in the Middle East was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison, the Justice Department said.

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The pilot who was forced to ditch his newly purchased aircraft in the ocean in Northern California said Wednesday he believes bad gasoline caused the plane to malfunction.

Because of the wide variety of responsibilities soldiers will have to perform in the cyber branch of the military, Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty said "Army Information Warfare Command" would be a more accurate descriptor.

The capabilities of the Pentagon’s first new combatant command in 10 years will include missile warning, satellite operations, space control and space support.

Thirty years ago the first B-2 bomber took to the air from the Plant 42 runway in Palmdale, Calif. Aviation visionary Jack Northrop’s dream of a “flying wing” plane — one with no tail — was realized. Today, Northrop is ramping up development of a replacement stealth bomber, the B-21.

As planes from World War II landed, Bob Considine thought of his father, who flew in combat. A P-40 Warhawk, a B-24 bomber and a P-51 Mustang were among the vintage World War II planes that arrived at Hazleton (Pa.) airport as part of the Wings of Freedom tour.

As participants in the Toys for Tots program at Polk Correctional Institution, men wearing dull blue uniforms with stripes on their pants spend their weekdays hand-crafting toys.

America's federal deficit will expand by $800 billion more than previously expected over 10 years due primarily to two legislative packages approved this year, piling the nation further into levels of debt unseen since the end of World War II, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Camden Police Department released its new policy, codifying what has been department practice for years. Experts are calling the document the "most progressive" use-of-force policy to date.

The Nye County Commission on Tuesday denied a permit for an event organizers dubbed "Peacestock 51" and planned to hold Sept. 20 in Amargosa Valley.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Jewish Americans who vote for Democratic candidates are "very disloyal to Israel," expanding on his remarks from the previous day and dismissing criticism that his remarks were anti-Semitic.

Vice President Mike Pence stepped up pressure on Congress to support the Trump administration's new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, taking his pitch on Wednesday to voters in a congressional swing district in southern New Mexico.

As he toured the tiny home village for veterans just off of Troost Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke left no doubt what brought him to town. “I’m here because of Jason Kander,” O’Rourke said.

Local, state and federal officials, along with volunteers, continued a massive search Wednesday for two off-duty firefighters who went missing Friday during a fishing trip off Port Canaveral.

The new rule would eliminate a 20-day cap for detaining migrant children and create a new licensing regime that would make it easier for federal officials to expand family detention nationwide.

The Robin Sage exercise, the final test for Army Special Forces candidates from Fort Bragg, is set to begin in multiple North Carolina counties from Aug. 30 to Sept.12.

Capt. Tadd Gorman was relieved by Rear Adm. Karl Thomas, the commander of Task Force 70, due to “a loss of confidence in his personal judgment and ability to lead,” according to a Navy statement.

Thousands of servicemembers sent to the border are eligible to receive a medal that recognizes those who, as a unit, take part in a designated U.S. military operation “deemed to be a significant activity” and “encounter no foreign armed opposition or imminent hostile action,” DOD criteria state.

The military installation, whose turf the alligator invaded, used the animal's escapades as a teaching moment in a Facebook post.

Robert Morris Levy was indicted on three counts of involuntary manslaughter and 28 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and false statements to law enforcement officials.

The Pentagon’s transgender policy was implemented in April after the Supreme Court ruled the Defense Department could move forward with the ban nearly two years after President Donald Trump tweeted his intentions to bar all transgender persons from the military.

Yujing Zhang, is acting as her own attorney and faces up to six years in prison if convicted at her trial set to start in two weeks.

Volunteers continue to clean and polish the USS Arizona Memorial in preparation for the as-yet announced reopening of one of the state’s most visited tourist attractions.

"Sesame Street" is offering resources to help the youngest members of military families navigate the changes that come with caring for ill or injured servicemembers.

President Donald Trump talked Tuesday with National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre and assured him that universal background checks were off the table, according to several people familiar with the call.

Tech Sgt. Joshua Kidd was one of five members of the Barksdale community to be murdered since June 2018, according to the Air Force.

First Lt. Joshua Yabut stole an M577 armored personnel carrier from Fort Pickett near Blackstone, Va., on June 5, 2018, and tweeted during his trip as Virginia State Police pursued him all the way to Richmond, Va.

Technical glitches, delays and miscommunication are roiling the Real ID implementation in half a dozen states, calling into question whether residents will have the secure driver’s license needed to travel by air or enter government-restricted areas after October 2020.

Authorities say a body found south of Belen has been identified as a Marine veteran missing since last month and a suspect in the murder case is in custody.

A military aircraft nearly 50-years-old is being restored to help fight wildfires in Washington state.

Top billing for next month’s 7th Annual Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival goes to the USS Philippine Sea, a 567-foot guided-missile cruiser that's among more than a dozen vessels lined up for the event, festival organizers announced.

The pilot of a small plane in a deadly crash near New Orleans' Lakefront Airport radioed the control tower shortly after takeoff about unspecified problems and sought clearance to return, federal investigators said Saturday.