There’s mounting evidence that masks protect not only others, but they protect you. If you’re unlucky enough to encounter an infectious person, wearing any kind of face covering will reduce the amount of virus that your body will take in.

At Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, teacher Eirik Nielsen and his 112 sophomores struggle to prepare for the Advanced Placement World History test as schools respond to the spiraling coronavirus pandemic by expanding a weeklong spring break into an indefinite hiatus.

Two more sailors were injured Monday evening fighting the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard as the remaining five sailors in the hospital suffering minor injuries were released, Navy officials said Tuesday.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have ordered service members to wear more formal uniforms while at the Pentagon and other sites in the National Capital Region to project a more professional look.

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The Fleet and Family Support Center San Diego on its Facebook page Monday warned people to avoid scammers seeking donations for the sailors.

Some military experts believe the USS Bonhomme Richard can't be saved, and if that's the case, the mini-aircraft carrier would be among the largest Navy ships ever lost.

The pilot of an F-16 Flying Falcon ejected safely before the fighter jet crashed during landing at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., the 49th Wing said in a statement late Monday.

Midshipman 3rd Class Nixon Keago is charged with sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, obstruction of justice and burglary stemming from at least three different incidences, according to charging documents.

The order is part of the state's new strategy to control the spread of the virus by focusing on limiting indoor activities to reflect public health officials' evolving understanding of how the virus spreads.

Marco Antonio Chavez was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of more than $783,000 for defrauding TRICARE, the military's health insurance provider.

Walter Morales is wanted in connection to the shooting death of Spc. Marlon Brumfield, a Stryker armored vehicle maintainer with the Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment who was killed while home on leave.

From July 25 to Aug. 8, Grand Haven residents and businesses are encouraged to decorate their porches, yards and windows to signal their appreciation for the U.S. Coast Guard, in the absence of the 96th annual Coast Guard Festival.

Dennis Reddy Jr. celebrated his 90th birthday Monday with family and friends pulling off a major birthday surprise at what he was told would be a small family gathering. "I didn't expect this, and I don't deserve it, but I think it's for everybody you know, any veteran at age 90 I feel, certainly not just for me," he said.

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The cause of the fire is still under investigation and the origin of an explosion that also occurred on the ship Sunday is still unknown.

1st Lt. Joseph Trent Allbaugh, 24, from Folsom, Calif., was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th ADA Brigade. The fatal incident is under investigation.

Sgt. James Jayqon Parker was pronounced dead after being pulled unresponsive from the water at Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Pyramid Rock Beach on June 28.

Troops from the Army, Navy and Air Force were sent Monday at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state officials and will primarily help civilian medical staff in their facilities.

A 24-year veteran of the Tennessee Army National Guard who disarmed and restrained a gunman at a high school homecoming game nearly two years ago has been presented the Army’s highest award for noncombat bravery.

Neighborhoods immediately surrounding the still-burning USS Bonhomme Richard, which is docked at Naval Base San Diego, have been hardest hit by the pollution.

Army and Navy are exempt from a Patriot League decision to not conduct competitions for the fall sports programs.

As scientists race to test coronavirus vaccines in humans, a parallel scramble is underway to produce billions of medical-grade vials and syringes that will be needed to inoculate the world's population.

At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country by turning out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Tensions mounted Monday over how the U.S. is grappling with a resurgent coronavirus outbreak, as global health officials warned that the pandemic will only intensify worldwide unless officials adopt comprehensive strategies to combat it.

Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle completed a tactical air program whose graduates generally go on to fly F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers or F-35C Joint Strike Fighters.

“As we listened to Airmen and Space Professionals, we reviewed our policies and identified language in our dress and appearance instruction that was problematic for certain groups,” said Lisa Truesdale, Air Force deputy director of military force management policy.

Phillip Blanks credits his military training and time as a football player with helping him save a boy from a fire.

“The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to deny these illnesses are related and continue to deny benefits,” Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., said Thursday.

“The deaths of these two women cannot go unnoticed and they cannot go without necessary reform within the military system,” said Arizona state Rep. César Chávez, a Democrat from Phoenix.

No justice, no enlistment. That’s the call from a group of female veterans in the wake of the slaying of Fort Hood soldier Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose remains were found mutilated and buried at the hands of another soldier miles from the central Texas base where she served.

Seventeen sailors and four civilians were hospitalized after an explosion and a fire Sunday aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, military officials said. The ship was undergoing routine maintenance at the time of the fire.

Former Army Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene spent about 18 months behind bars and will now serve 20 years probation for aggravated sexual battery and admitted to abusing his daughter during the 1980s.

Rep. Elise Stefanik had announced the unidentified soldier’s upcoming graduation and hailed it as “an important and hard-earned milestone.”

A 23-year-old lance corporal from New York was at the center of an incident Tuesday morning at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., that forced the base to lock down for hours and ended with the Marine shooting himself, the service said Friday.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is demanding to know whether the Pentagon is investigating whether any American troops died in Afghanistan as a result of the bounties reputed to have been offered by Russia to attack them.

The U.S., China and the United Arab Emirates are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet in quick succession beginning this week in the most sweeping effort yet to seek signs of ancient microscopic life while scouting out the place for future astronauts.

The State Department warned U.S. citizens living in or traveling to China they may face arbitrary arrest, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing.

The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.

President Donald Trump has acknowledged in an interview with a Washington Post columnist that he ordered a clandestine military cyberstrike against Russian trolls in 2018 to disrupt their Internet access during the midterm elections.

The number of installations with lifted travel restrictions is up to 73 out of 231 major military installations, or 32%, according to a Pentagon document. The update was an increase of three from the list issued last week.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is one step closer to securing its largest budget in history at more than $250 billion, continuing a trend of the government’s second-largest agency expanding rapidly in size to support a growing and aging veterans population.

Many places that suffered most in the first wave of infections, including California, Louisiana, Michigan and Washington state, are seeing case counts climb again after months of declines.

“By failing in these areas, West Point ultimately fails to produce leaders of character equipped to lead diverse organizations,” according to a letter penned by alumni. “In other words, West Point is failing to accomplish its mission.”

As millions go back to college during the pandemic, the ability of campus health services to safeguard and care for students will be tested as never before — and many schools appear unprepared for the challenge.

The "E.T. sponge" has been classified as a new species and genus, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday as it announced the discovery.

The government alleges that Thomas Bouchard created a “no-show” job for his girlfriend and that together the two stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers to fuel their Florida getaways.

President Donald Trump said Friday he would seek sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy through an executive order, suggesting he might create a "road to citizenship" for certain migrants brought to the country illegally as children and shift the criteria for new arrivals to a "merit-based" system.

Two suspects have been identified in the disappearance and death of Guillen, who went missing on Fort Hood on April 22.

Lisa McCrea arrived at Victorville's George Air Force Base in 1987 a healthy and pregnant 19-year-old military wife. But within the first month, McCrea said her body "just didn't feel right... Something was off."

The Army had previously maintained it had no credible information to Spc. Vanessa Guillen family’s allegations of sexual harassment — but speaking to reporters Friday, investigators now believe Guillen could have faced some form of harassment before she was killed.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is refusing to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unless it holds hearings on five senior State Department nominees, including the administration's new ambassador to Ukraine.

Col. Carl J. Magnusson took command of the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station and the 914th Air Refueling Wing during a ceremony Sunday.

The court-martial against Naval Academy Midshipman 3rd Class Nixon Keago will feature far more breaks than normal. Such is a court-martial during a pandemic.

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former Ukraine expert for the National Security Council who testified in President Donald Trump’s impeachment case, will retire from the military, his lawyer announced Wednesday in a statement that charged Trump with bullying.

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The Trump administration immediately appealed to a higher court, asking that the executions move forward.

Service members assigned to Navy units are now able to attend religious services where mitigations to limit the spread of coronavirus are appropriately applied, Capt. Sarah Self-Kyler, spokeswoman for U.S. Fleet Forces, said Thursday.

“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” Donald Trump tweeted.

As factories start bringing back workers laid off at the beginning of the pandemic, some are retooling to meet coronavirus-related demands.

Recordings were done during the coronavirus pandemic in studios in Nashville, Tenn., Los Angeles, Calif., Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, Minn.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn says new evidence shows the FBI agents who interviewed him in 2017 didn't think he was lying, but helped cook up a criminal case against him anyway.

Between espressos and craft honey, Saturday morning at the Santa Fe Farmers Market was, if just for a few minutes, interrupted by cries for justice for Pfc. Vanessa Guillén, whose remains were found in late June more than two months after she went missing from Fort Hood, Texas.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson plans to travel this week to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro to free several jailed Americans as a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with the U.S.

President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though the wall was built after a months-long campaign by his supporters.

The police killing of George Floyd has triggered a wave of reckoning over racism and identity coast to coast, including at the United States Military Academy, among the most isolated and traditions-bound institutions in the country.

China said Monday it will impose sanctions on three U.S. lawmakers and one ambassador in response to similar actions taken by the U.S. last week against Chinese officials over reputed human rights abuses against Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

As Montana warily reopened last month to pandemic-weary tourists, an isolated community held firm with closures and stay-at-home orders. The Blackfeet Nation borders Glacier National Park, and its decision blocked access to much of the vast wilderness there.

Lawyers for Patrick Crusius, who is charged with shooting scores of people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart, say their client has diagnosed mental disabilities that should be a “red flag” for federal prosecutors considering whether to seek the death penalty.

The 40,000-pound plane will be reassembled, restored and put on public display in the fall. The aircraft, when assembled, is about 86-feet long, has a 110-foot wingspan and is 27-feet tall at the tail.

Nearly a century after a brutal race massacre left as many as 300 black people dead, this city began to dig Monday for suspected mass graves from the violence.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper told House lawmakers Thursday that Pentagon intelligence agencies had not corroborated reports Russia offered Taliban fighters payments to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan and pledged a crackdown on leaks of sensitive information coming from his department.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signed one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and a federal judge quickly blocked the measure.

The National Gallery of Art will open the ground floor of its West Building on Monday July 20, becoming the District of Columbia's first major art institution to welcome visitors back after an 18-week shutdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested Sunday that former special counsel Robert Mueller III might be invited to testify before his panel, although Graham did not give any details on the timing of any potential invitation.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said their proposal would make the veterans eligible to receive a grant to help them purchase their equipment once every 10 years.

A coronavirus death, when it occurs, typically comes several weeks after a person is first infected. And experts predicted states that saw increases in cases and hospitalizations would, at some point, see deaths rise too. Now that's happening.

On Saturday, Robert Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, writing in a newspaper opinion piece that the probe was of “paramount importance” and asserting that a Trump ally, Roger Stone, “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so" despite the president's decision to commute his prison sentence.

The hold issued by Sen. Tammy Duckworth applies to 1,123 scheduled promotions of officers to the rank of “06” — colonel or Navy captain or above.

A federal judge on Monday demanded more information about President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone.

A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller has a book coming out this fall about the two-year investigation into the suspected ties between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts will remove an exhibit dedicated to John Wayne after students called for its removal last year because of racist comments the late actor made in a 1971 Playboy magazine interview.

The Department of Homeland Security has deployed officers in tactical gear to Portland, Oregon, as part of a surge aimed at people taking advantage of protests over the police killing of George Floyd to engage in violence and vandalism.

As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening could drive infection and death rates even higher.

Governors across the country are facing increasing pressure to pass statewide mask requirements and mount a more coherent pandemic response as coronavirus cases soar to record levels, daily deaths rise and hospitals in the South and West face a crush of patients.

On a visit to Miami on Friday, President Donald Trump portrayed himself as tough on drugs and a champion of Venezuelans, at a time when U.S. policy toward the troubled South American nation has not yielded the expected results and polls show him falling behind his Democratic rival in Florida.

Although countless recruits have completed the grueling 2-day, 50-mile "Crucible" march, the last training evolution before earning the title "United States Marine," Bravo Company has done so after dozens of recruits contracted and recovered from COVID-19.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear on Sunday that she wants schools to reopen fully for most students for the 2020-21 academic year, even as COVID-19 infection rates are soaring in some parts of the country and some superintendents say it is impossible for them to do that.

The collective force of California's three public systems of higher education have joined the legal fight to stop federal immigration authorities from banning international students from the U.S. if they take only online courses this fall.

For months, families have pined to see their loved ones who live in California’s skilled nursing facilities, which have been shut down to outside visitors to keep the coronavirus from spreading.

Florida shattered the national record Sunday for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases as its daily average death toll continued to also rise.

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After a presidential primary season plagued by long lines, confusion over mail-in voting and malfunctioning equipment, election experts are increasingly concerned about the resiliency of American democracy in the face of a global pandemic.

The fate of one of Alaska’s most historic yet neglected structures could be decided Monday as city officials in Seward weigh whether to demolish a former Methodist boarding school where the Alaska territorial flag first was flown almost a century ago and where its Alaska Native designer lived.

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For years, Kamala Harris boasted she was California's "top cop." In 2020, Harris could be attending the next Democratic convention as its vice presidential nominee – and as one of its top cop reformers. The senator's current reformer role has some questioning whether she's evolved with the times or is taking advantage of a political opportunity.

"The Most Magical Place on Earth" has reopened after nearly four months with new rules in place to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios will follow in four days.

Ghislaine Maxwell argued for $5 million bail Friday, saying she had wrongly replaced Jeffrey Epstein in the public eye after the multimillionaire hanged himself last year.