The U.S. Army is racing to increase the range of its artillery — and have the ability to move it in a hurry so that enemy systems can’t hit back.

The U.S. Census Bureau has asked all 50 states for drivers' license information, months after President Donald Trump ordered the collection of citizenship information.

Amendments to change White Sands National Monument's designation are included in both the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act.

From Minnesota to Vermont, at least five states and Washington, D.C. have done away with Columbus Day celebrations in deference to Native Americans, though the federal Columbus holiday remains in place.

Investigators are scouring mall surveillance video, seeking to pinpoint the source of an apparent loud noise that panicked mallgoers into an afternoon exodus from the Town Center at Boca Raton.

A large tattoo of the Statue of Liberty is spread across the left side of Jose Segovia Benitez’s body. A second tattoo memorializes his service to the U.S. Marines. Neither will serve him well in El Salvador.

The National Park Service says a copper bust of aviation pioneer Orville Wright has been stolen from the Wright Brothers National Memorial in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, didn’t have time to perceive a threat before shooting her, an attorney for the woman’s family said.

The Royal Canadian Air Force says one of its pilots is safe after he had to eject from his plane just before an aerobatics show near Hampton, Ga., and no one on the ground was injured.

The Information, Intelligence, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Battalion pulls together the nonlethal, information-based Army specialties listed in its name to coordinate with lethal Army specialties such as missile defense.

Saguaro cacti are being transplanted to make way for the border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, sparing them from bulldozers but also raising questions about how well they will survive.

A Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans' historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday morning, leaving at least one person dead and injuring more than 20 people, authorities said.

Police in the Florida city of Boca Raton say a SWAT team is sweeping an upscale mall after they received reports of shots, and they have determined there is no active shooter on site.

This year, Rep. Derrick J. Lente – a second-term Democrat in a state where more than a tenth of residents are American Indian – successfully sponsored a bill ditching Columbus Day, fighting back attempts to rename the holiday New Mexico Day or Friendship Day.

Some 33 airmen from the New Hampshire Air National Guard spent more than three grueling weeks last summer on a remote Alaskan island, working 12 hour days, seven days a week in rain and howling winds — and it was without doubt an experience of a lifetime.

Drones have been used increasingly to smuggle drugs and other contraband into correctional facilities as the technology becomes more readily available and affordable.

Army commanders are making sweeping changes to shorten and revamp the Special Forces course to meet evolving threats and to shift from a culture that weeds out struggling soldiers to one that trains them to do better, but critics fear the changes will weaken the force.

A gunman opened fire at a wedding ceremony inside a New Hampshire church Saturday shooting two people before guests tackled the shooter and held him until police arrived, authorities said.

The Pre-emplaced Electric Vehicle Stopper will prevent unauthorized access to military installations. Maintaining the safety and security of all military, civilians, family members and visitors on the installation is a top priority at the base.

Ilene Hochberg Wood's collection of 3,000 handbags — the majority of which dwell in a 2,400-square-foot Quonset hut on her Lehigh Valley estate — will make a fashionista fall to her knees.

A loud roar punctuated the air while the engines of a B-17 Flying Fortress warmed up on a runway at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport. Thursday marked the first flight of a B-17 in the region following the deadly crash at Bradley International Airport on Oct. 2 which claimed the lives of seven on board.

President Donald Trump met with the Eastbank All-Stars on Friday at the White House. The players then met again with Trump at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where they boarded the presidential plane together.

By the autumn of 1919, the First World War had been over for almost a year. But the U.S. military was already thinking about the next struggle and the need for more recruits. Top Navy brass decided to send some of the heroic boats of the Great War on tour.

Robert Joseph Bensh claimed to have been a member of the U.S. military's most elite combat units: Army Rangers, Special Forces and Delta Force, the hyper-secret counter-terrorism group. But a summary of his military career obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request shows he spent less than five years in uniform, almost all of it with the Army National Guard.

A jury convicted Wayne Sellers IV of all counts — including first-degree murder — in the October 2018 slaying. One of his co-defendants, Kyle Robert Watts, was also an active-duty Air Force chef at F.E Warren Air Force Base at the time of the shooting.

Despite opposition from the U.S. government, a federal judge ordered the release Friday of former Miami imam Hafiz Khan, ruling that because the convicted Taliban supporter is dying at a North Carolina prison facility, he no longer poses a terrorism threat and can be transferred to a hospice care center.

Larry Rivera drove over the Gandy Bridge with the ashes of a man he’d never met. This was before he was on a first-name basis with the urn. It was before he figured out whose ashes were in it.

Three wars and 409 fighter pilot combat missions later, Col. McGee stands as one of the most decorated pilots in America's history as a proud member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.

Two U.S. Air Force officers spent time embedded at Delta Airlines and Amazon, and what they learned is shaking up how that branch of the military handles logistics.

The Secret Service and Dallas Police Department will have a little extra "help" Thursday when President Donald Trump speaks in Dallas – whether they like it or not.

Machinist's Mate 1st Class Ulis Claud Steely came home for the first time in more than 78 years. When the sailor first left home in 1934, it was with Annapolis aspirations. His dad, the Rev. Edward Steely of Poplar Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Corbin, signed his enlistment papers in Lexington when Ulis was just 17. When he came home on Oct. 3, it was in a flag-draped casket.

The new car and special ceremony was part of the "Everyday Hero" program, a partnership between Acadiana Chevy dealers and the Military Warriors Support Foundation, to recognize combat-wounded veterans for their service and sacrifice.

Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting at an illegal gambling club in New York City, police said.

Obituary

Samuel G. DeSimone, 88, of Mickleton, Gloucester County, a Korean War veteran, educator, and respected jurist who served on the Superior Court of New Jersey for a quarter-century, died in his sleep Thursday, Oct. 10, at his home.

A Defense Intelligence Agency employee accused of sharing classified information with two reporters was released on bond in Alexandria, Virginia, federal court Friday.

As the threat of impeachment looms, President Donald Trump is taking solace in the base that helped him get elected: conservative evangelical Christians who laud his commitment to enacting their agenda. Trump said last week that "the biggest pastors" have assured him that Christians are "electrified" with his presidency.

A wildfire raged out of control along the northern edge of Los Angeles early Friday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as firefighters battled flames from the air and on the ground. Mandatory evacuations encompassed about 100,000 people in over 20,000 homes.

Marie Yovanovitch said she was "abruptly" recalled in May and was told the president had lost confidence in her. "Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives."

Operation Homefront is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Military Child of the Year Awards, as well as applications for the 2020 Military Child of the Year Award for Innovation.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised the nation’s 37th commander in chief as “the man who probably did more for veterans than any president since Abraham Lincoln.”

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said he isn’t worried about a base closure coming to Scott Air Force Base, especially as the federal government prepares to invest nearly $300 million into the base.

Kevin McAleenan's departure creates yet another top-level vacancy in Trump's Cabinet — at the department responsible not only for immigration enforcement but also for helping states secure elections.

A panel of international aviation regulators found that Boeing withheld key information about the 737 Max from pilots and regulators, and the Federal Aviation Administration lacked the expertise to understand an automated flight system implicated in two deadly crashes of Max jets.

Trump fell about 45,000 votes short of beating Democrat Hillary Clinton in Minnesota in 2016. He has had staff in the state since June building a network to turn out supporters next November. "We are going to win this state," Trump said Thursday.

Defense Department officials know toxic chemicals known as PFAS have seeped into the groundwater underneath nearly two dozen military bases throughout California — but the department has conducted only limited testing off base and cannot say how many civilian water sources they’ve polluted or who will pay for it.

More than three dozen Boeing 737s have been grounded worldwide after wing-related cracks were discovered during recent inspections, the company said Thursday.

An indictment unsealed Thursday identified the lawmaker only as "Congressman 1." But the donations described in the indictment match campaign finance reports for former Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican who lost his re-election bid in November 2018. Sessions has denied wrongdoing.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's financial records must be turned over to the House of Representatives. Trump could appeal to the Supreme Court.

Even as the winds gusted dangerously as forecast, California's biggest utility faced hostility and second-guessing Thursday for shutting off electricity to millions of people to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires.

Tech. Sgt. Peter Kraines was practicing mountain rescue techniques near Boise when he was killed Tuesday. He was assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing based at Fort Bragg.

Through a six-hour firefight in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on April 6, 2008, Army Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams continuously braved insurgent rocket-propelled-grenade, sniper and machine gun fire, allowing his fellow soldiers to escape alive.

Navy pilot Byron Fuller spent almost six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, where his battered body was tortured and starved. Upon his release in 1973, he promptly took up again the life that was his: As husband, father, Navy man.

Francis Currey's Medal of Honor — which he received on July 27, 1945, after the Allied victory in Europe and just before the defeat of Japan — was one of 472 awarded for service during World War II, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

The changes allowing sailors to more easily access relevant service information on smartphones are part of the “Sailor 2025” program, which is trumpeted as changing how the Navy recruits, promotes and delivers information.

The killing of Army Spc. Jacob Bishop was a deliberate, isolated act, police said Tuesday, after the National Guardsman's body was found more than a week ago in his Tennessee home bound and shot multiple times.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, business associates of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, were arrested and are in custody Thursday, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan said.

Two active duty soldiers have been treated for vaping-related lung injuries, the Army said Thursday as it issued a new warning to servicemembers to lay off electronic cigarettes.

Trump administration officials say the U.S. Navy will name a ship that has yet to be built after the city of Harrisburg.

The additional delay in final delivery of the destroyer, designated the DDG-1000, may increase doubts the Navy can build, outfit and deliver vessels on time and within cost targets.

An Army-supported research program has plans to bring robotic buses to Colorado troops at Fort Carson.

The bipartisan legislation would ban military assistance to Turkey and prohibit the sale of any equipment to the Turkish armed forces, such as weapons and spare parts used by Turkey’s air and ground forces.

According to the 2019 San Diego Military Economic Impact Study, 354,000 military-connected jobs accounted for 22% of all jobs in San Diego and surroundings. This amounts to a $51 billion contribution to the local economy, or one-fifth of San Diego’s total gross regional product.

Trump will address supporters in Minneapolis – the home district of a frequent target of his: Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. It's a venue ripe for some of Trump's favorite attacks regarding issues like immigration and urban crime.

Restoring defense projects funding that was diverted to a border wall is easier said than done, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said during a tour of Kirtland Air Force Base on Wednesday.

While pressure is intensifying to reach a deal, the losses for both sides are mounting and spilling over into the auto supply chain.

Top White House officials met with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Thursday as President Donald Trump signaled that a trade agreement may follow, buoying U.S. stock markets after a chaotic 12 hours.

The Army is defending what it says was a joint decision of stakeholders on Redstone Arsenal to close an historic 57-year-old space and technical library.

To mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Michael, storm-tattered flags have been placed in a wall display at the Naval Surface Warfare Center that also includes photographs and satellite images of the storm and its aftermath.

Staff Sgt. Lauren Beecroft wasn’t going to miss seeing her freshman daughter, Avrie Brode, play in Schuylkill Haven’s junior varsity match against Williams Valley in Pennsylvania. Even though Beecroft was stationed in Europe.

The 388-foot littoral combat ship Nantucket, designed for a maximum draft of 14 feet, is part of a Navy push to use smaller, lighter ships that are equipped for changing missions in shallow coastal waters.

Robert L. Thoms — nicknamed “Cajun Bob” for his thick native Baton Rouge accent — was awarded the Silver Star medal for “conspicuous gallantry” during the assault on the Arch Tower on Feb. 15, 1968, during some of the most ferocious fighting of North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive.

Brendan Bialy, 18, who helped tackle and disarm a gunman during a school shooting earlier this year, has graduated Marine Corps boot camp, where he distinguished himself as platoon honor man.

Jennifer Crowley said she and Master Sgt. Jeff Briar held a wedding ceremony on a San Diego beach. After the ceremony, Briar went swimming and drowned. However, the wedding took place before the couple had a marriage license, raising questions whether Crowley is entitled to survivor benefits.

Veterans and servicemembers are required to pay a Department of Veterans Affairs funding fee when they apply for a home loan from the agency. Veterans who possess a disability rating are exempt from the fee, which is designed to offset administration costs for the VA.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the military as a whole are facing a threat from within that Ohio businesses are all too familiar with — an aging workforce that is rapidly approaching retirement.

Security for Offutt Air Force Base have not revealed who the shooter was in the Sept. 28 slayings of Sgt. Zachary Firlik and his wife, Kari McManigal Firlik at a military housing residence south of Omaha.

Gilberto Chavez Jr. was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Capt. Daniel Lehman, an Army officer from Santa Fe who was shot dead in downtown Colorado Springs a little over a year ago.

Col. Mark Visconi pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in federal court last week. He was charged in August while working at the Pentagon and now awaits sentencing.

Col. Mark Visconi used an online bulletin board dedicated to sharing photos of underage girls between November 2015 and June 2016. A forensic review of his laptop showed that Visconi downloaded and viewed the content by using an anonymous web browser.

Marine Staff Sgt. Michael R. VanVliet died at the scene of the single-vehicle crash that occurred about 1:20 a.m. Saturday near Jacksonville, N.C., according to authorities.

A traveling exhibit of sculptures depicting wounded military working dogs seeks to get people talking about the servicemembers who worked, and sometimes died, with the canines, while also honoring the dogs’ service.

Pseudofolliculitis barbae, or more commonly known as razor bumps, is caused when curly beard hair curves back into the skin after being shaved, causing inflammation. Of the more than 337,000 sailors in the Navy, about 6,000 each year are treated for the condition.

The Pentagon warned Turkey against a military incursion in northeastern Syrian land controlled by Kurdish forces that the United States has backed for five years in their fight against the Islamic State, the Defense Department said Monday in a statement.

The complaint accuses Huntington Ingalls of assigning unqualified individuals to install an important hull coating designed to shield the Navy’s Virginia-class nuclear submarines from sonar, and falsifying records to cover up their mistakes.

“Hire Military Heroes” targets servicemembers considering a transition back to civilian life via a web application that visitors are encouraged to download. However, the app actually drops malicious malware and spyware into the users’ computer system.

Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned in a letter to National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien that leaving the 17-year-old accord would be a “reckless action” and “only benefit Russia.”

The Marine Corps maternity uniform could potentially see some changes in the future, including adjustable side tabs for the service uniform, according to a Marine Corps document.

Daniel J. Hollis, a student at Emerson College, and his friends were leaving a party Sept. 28 when they were confronted by another group of men. An unidentified Marine on leave was involved in the scuffle that led to Hollis' death.

Henry Frese, a counterterrorism analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top secret details about a foreign country's weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he was apparently romantically involved.

A soldier killed in a training accident last year at Joint Base Lewis-McChord died after he was pinned underneath a Stryker during a break between missions, according to records of an Army investigation released to The News Tribune this week.

Ryan Charles Petro, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., was taken into custody Monday, Oct. 7 on five counts of first-degree rape stemming from an investigation into a sexual assault that was reported to Auburn, Ala. police on May 29, 2018.

Authorities say a man drove through a gate at Robins Air Force Base and struck a security barrier, killing himself and two passengers.

A former University of New Hampshire professor is suing several university administrators, along with the institution, for not renewing his contract last year because, his lawsuit claims, of his veteran status.