A spokesman for former special counsel Robert Mueller reiterated Monday that Mueller does not intend to stray beyond what was detailed in his 448-page report when he testifies before Congress later this week.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting an official visit and a state dinner in September for the prime minister of Australia, a conservative, who, like Trump, defied public opinion polls and won his first full term in office last May.

A number of students and professors at the University of South Carolina did not want retired Army general Bob Caslen because he lacked a doctoral degree and research university experience and had made comments that seemed dismissive about sexual assault and diversity.

Jacksonville, Fla., officials are getting state help to protect operations at the city's Navy bases by paying some neighbors to not develop their property.

House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump in a potentially last-ditch bid to impeach him.

A federal audit says government hospitals have placed Native American patients at increased risk for opioid abuse and overdoses.

With the U.S. House passage of the National Defense Authorization Act last week, the country moved one step closer to recognizing cadet nurses as veterans.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday of power outages that came at the end of this weekend’s oppressive heat, saying he no longer trusts utility Con Edison after it decided to turn off power to thousands of customers.

White House and congressional negotiators rushing to hammer out the final details of a sweeping budget and debt deal are unlikely to include many - if any - actual spending cuts, even as the debt limit is lifted for two years, people familiar with the talks said.

Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. government and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people.

The Alaska House of Representatives has failed to attain sufficient votes to repair the state's capital budget. The Anchorage Daily News reports the Legislature needed to reach a three-quarters supermajority to fund Senate Bill 2002.

The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five years from now. The moon will serve as a critical proving ground, the thinking goes, for the real prize of sending astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the public needs to hear directly from Mueller about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. The former special counsel is scheduled to testify on Wednesday.

Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case ever and threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages.

The Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that says they no longer can refer women for abortions.

Sgt. 1st Class Wilton "Pappy" White was a pioneer and a legend in the Army Ranger world. No one close to him knows exactly how White was removed from the Ranger Hall of Fame — but there was enough question about his mysterious removal that inspired fellow Rangers to pursue White's reinstatement to the institution that honors the best of the elite Rangers.

Puerto Rico's embattled governor says he will not seek re-election but will not resign as the island's leader, though he will step down as head of his pro-statehood party.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Saturday that he and his contacts at top intelligence agencies were unaware of Russian attempts to hack Senate candidates until the issue came up publicly at a conference last year.

Republicans frustrated over losing their grip on political power in some Western states have begun deploying a new weapon: the recall.

A week after his racist tweets about four minority congresswomen, President Donald Trump’s aides on Sunday defended his behavior, even as top Democrats sharply criticized him and pushed for greater accountability.

The East Coast was sweating through high temperatures and humidity levels again Sunday. The searing heat caused a New Jersey drawbridge to get stuck open and led to some gallows humor in a Boston suburb, where police implored criminals to take it easy until the weather cools.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday near the end of a Latin American tour and at a key moment for U.S.-Mexico relations.

There is just about every shade of politics you can imagine represented by the people who run for president.

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U.S. authorities say a Venezuelan fighter jet “aggressively shadowed” an American intelligence plane flying in international airspace over the Caribbean, underscoring rising tensions between the two nations.

The initiative focuses on using land conservation easements to protect drinking water.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Sweden's prime minister Saturday about jailed rapper A$AP Rocky and "offered to personally vouch for his bail," a hollow offer in a criminal justice system that doesn't include bail.

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Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress will depend not so much on what he says, but that he’s even saying it at all.

More than 100 demonstrators protested Saturday in withering heat outside an Oklahoma Army installation against the Trump administration’s plans to detain migrant children there.

President Donald Trump's own top aides didn't think he fully understood what he had done last Sunday, when he fired off a trio of tweets before a trip to his golf course. As is often the case, Trump acted alone — impulsively following his gut to the dark side of American politics.

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Rather than tangle with a stronger U.S. military, Iran is poking and prodding its Western antagonists in ways apparently designed to avoid triggering war but that nonetheless seem to heighten the risk of missteps and miscalculation that could lead to an armed conflict with global consequences.

Americans from Texas to Maine sweated out a steamy Saturday as a heat wave canceled events from festivals to horse races and pushed New York City to order power-saving steps to avoid overtaxing the electrical grid.

A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s “giant leap” on Apollo 11.

At the Aspen Security Forum, Pentagon leaders and industry chiefs said the biggest arms race that America faces may be in cyberspace, where even smaller nations like North Korea and Iran could bring havoc to U.S. soil.

Lawrence Kelly was on the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard off the coast of Vietnam in 1969. He learned of the moonwalk when he saw a copy of Stars and Stripes on July 22.

The HBI Military and Veterans Program is part of SkillBridge, a Department of Defense initiative that's training service members for the civilian workforce by linking them with industry, apprenticeships or internships at no cost to the individual.

At least 70 people came out to play golf, or just to donate, on Patriot Golf Day in honor of Green Beret Matthew Lewellen, who was killed in Jordan in 2016.

A small group of asylum seekers sit under a canopy on the side of a road leading into the U.S., chatting to pass the time as a blazing desert sun pushes the heat into triple digits and fumes roll in from dozens of cars lined up to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Judge Cmdr. Hayes C. Larsen sentenced Navy Airman Uriel Gerardo-Olivas to 25 years confinement, with 15 suspended. He'll also receive a dishonorable discharge.

In the past 31 years, U.S. Army veteran Joyce Letellier has attempted suicide four times. After years of treatment, she is now in a well enough mental health space to joyfully reflect on her future and help other veterans fight this battle.

Fifty years after a military test pilot made the first striated boot prints in the thick gray powder of the lunar surface, NASA has an ambitious plan to send humans back to the moon by 2024. This time, the agency has vowed that at least one of them will be a woman.

Harold Martin, a former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades' worth of classified documents at his Maryland home, apologized to the federal judge who sentenced him for a theft that prosecutors have called "breathtaking" in scope.

The grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation would help foot the roughly $130 million bill for improvements on Colorado 94, South Academy Boulevard, Interstate 25 and an entrance road to Fort Carson.

The Department of Homeland Security said that it would implement its Migrant Protection Protocols in Brownsville, Texas, across the border from Matamoros, Mexico. DHS says it anticipates the first asylum seekers will be sent back to Mexico starting Friday.

When special counsel Robert Mueller closed the books on the Russia investigation, he produced a report of more than 400 pages, and Attorney General William Barr held a news conference outlining the reasons the Justice Department didn't charge President Donald Trump.

Willem Van Spronsen is accused of approaching the center around 4 a.m. on Saturday, manipulating what looks like an AR-15-style rifle and setting fire to a building owned by the detention center. Police said surveillance video shows he placed flares strategically - including underneath a 500-gallon propane tank - ignited his own car so it would explode and threw molotov cocktails at nearby buildings.

The White House has invited senators to meet with President Donald Trump next week to discuss potential sanctions on Turkey after the president said the United States will cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets by the country after it acquired a Russian antimissile defense system.

Flanked by Buzz Aldrin, Mike Collins and the family of mission commander Neil Armstrong in the Oval Office, Donald Trump was briefed on his administration's plans to send astronauts back to the moon and onto Mars.

A Florida sheriff launched an investigation Friday into whether his department properly monitored the wealthy financer Jeffrey Epstein while he was serving a sentence for soliciting prostitution from underage girls.

Brothers Glenn and Ken Boyd flew together out of India during World War II, delivering supplies to the famed Merrill's Marauders on the front lines in Burma. This week they were back in the air as part of the Commemorative Air Force.

Retired Brig. Gen. Pete Dawkins, a Rhodes Scholar and College Football Hall of Famer, married Mary Martin Ourisman, the former ambassador to Barbados, on July 9 in New York.

A test run of a new Air Force medical program was so successful at reducing the number of airmen who were sidelined and unable to perform their jobs that it’s being rolled out at bases across the U.S., officials said.

The 9/11 victim compensation bill passed in the House, 402-12, following the death of a former NYPD detective, Luis Alvarez, who testified last month about the urgent need to replenish the fund.

From the end of World War I until the early 1970s, the world's oceans, including the Gulf of Mexico, served as a dumping ground for the tangible reminders of armed conflicts — the bombs and other munitions which took up space and presented potential hazards at military bases around the country.

With the all-new Corvette, which GM's Chevrolet division showed off outside Los Angeles late Thursday, the sports car born in the 1950s is getting a radical makeover to shove it into the modern era.

Former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked off his post in Paktika province in Afghanistan in 2009 and became a captive of the Taliban until the United States exchanged five Taliban detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay for him in 2014.

There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into "maintenance holes" instead. Nothing will be manmade in the liberal city but "human-made." And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join "collegiate Greek system residences" rather than fraternities and sororities.

Long before President Donald Trump turned up the heat on four Democratic congresswomen of color, saying they should "go back" to their home countries, hateful rhetoric and disinformation about the self-described squad was lurking online.

A divided University of South Carolina board of trustees voted Friday to hire retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen as the school's next president, rejecting protests from faculty, some students and several politicians.

The USS Kearsarge and USS Arlington returned to Norfolk on Thursday following a seven-month deployment. They were greeted by cheering friends, family members, newborn babies and even a few tail-wagging dogs.

Leonardo’s TH-119 helicopter cleared its final certification hurdle from the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, securing an essential requirement in the company’s bid to replace the United States Navy’s aging training helicopter fleet.

The Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies that don’t meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled, advancing the government’s efforts to undo Obamacare.

Harold Martin's sentencing will resolve a mysterious case that broke into the open in 2016, when FBI agents conducting a raid found stolen government documents inside his home, car and storage shed.

By the time Apollo 11 blasted off, many astronauts had come to develop an appreciation for lunar geology — and the new light it would shed on our own planet.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins died June 30 from noncombat injuries in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

SpaceX’s 18th run to the International Space Station, planned for Sunday, will be packed with dozens of critical experiments, science that will look to answer big-picture questions about nerve cells, healing and tissue regeneration. Oh yeah, and Nickelodeon slime is going to space, too.

The space race was always going to be won by filmmakers and science-fiction writers. Jules Verne penned "From the Earth to the Moon" in 1865, prophesying three U.S. astronauts rocketing from Florida to the moon. George Melies' 1902 silent classic "A Trip to the Moon" had a rocket ship landing in the eye of the man in the moon. Three years before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, "Star Trek" began airing.

A Mississippi Air National Guard C-17 cargo aircraft flew from Hickam Field to Kalaeloa Airport on Thursday to pick up simulated wounded troops who had been transported from a notional battlefield by an Army Black Hawk helicopter.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who will question former special counsel Robert Mueller next week plan to focus on a narrow set of episodes laid out in his report, an effort to direct Americans' attention to what they see as the most egregious examples of President Donald Trump's conduct.

Eugene Scalia has a decades-long record of challenging Labor Department and other federal regulations, as well as a famous last name. The combination proved irresistible to President Donald Trump.

A member of the World War II Flying Tigers squadron, who manned a B-25 belly gun and cobbled together radio networks in the field, Antonio "Tony" Vaccaro, 100, was presented with five military medals Friday during a ceremony attended by five generations of his family.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became more famous than peanut butter and jelly. Orbiting above them on July 20, 1969, was the answer to one of the planet’s enduring trivia questions. Who was the third astronaut aboard Apollo 11? If you don’t know, that’s fine by Michael Collins.

A South Florida city founded by World War II veterans wants to make it easier for fellow veterans to park. The West Miami city commission passed an initiative Wednesday to designate “veterans only” parking spaces in the city, which is nestled between the Tamiami Trail and Coral Way.

More than 3,000 unclaimed veterans nationwide have been buried with full military honors through the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program. The program, which launched in 2000, was "founded upon the belief that every veteran deserves a dignified and honorable burial,” spokeswoman Ashley Bunton said.

A man scaled several floors down the side of a 19-story building in Philadelphia to escape a fire that injured four residents and three police officers.

The 76-hour Battle of Tarawa cost the lives of about 1,000 U.S. Marines and sailors, many of whom were buried where they fell. Efforts to exhume the graves and identify remains were hampered due to incomplete record keeping and by the alterations to the cemeteries shortly after the battle.

Air Force Technical Sgt. Michael Perolio's actions on Jan. 11, 2018, in eastern Afghanistan saved the lives of his comrades and showcased “a devotion to duty.”

This won’t be the first time Col. Amy Ebitz and Col. Curtis Ebitz — married since 2003 — commanded a unit at the same time. But it will be the first time that they will assume their leadership roles on the same day.

A U.S. intelligence gathering hub at RAF Molesworth, one of several American bases that had been slated for closure, could stay where it is as the Pentagon reconsiders a plan to move the center to a different site.

Tech. Sgt. Nick Torres, a 308th Rescue Squadron pararescueman, aided the soldiers on March 30, 2018, during a mission in southern Kandahar province.

Tom Cruise, who plays the title character, surprised audiences at Comic-Con in San Diego, Calif., with the trailer Thursday.

The woman, who is not being named because she has not yet been charged, is alleged to have caused “severe and horrific trauma” to the infants, according to police.

Amendment orders investigation into whether the Defense Department experimented with bioweapons — specifically in ticks — and whether those arachnids ended up making their way out of the labs and into the public between the 1950s and the 1970s.

Vice Adm. Michael Gilday has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next chief of naval operations, according to a senate announcement Wednesday on the nomination.

A private dive team has located the last U.S. Navy warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles off the coast of Maine.

About 500 servicemembers are expected to be sent to Prince Sultan Air Base in the desert east of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, unnamed Defense Department officials said Wednesday.

Sgt. Maj. James “Ryan” Sartor died Saturday in Faryab Province in Afghanistan from injuries suffered in combat involving small-arms fire, the Army said. Though he was a native of Texas, he and his family had lived in Falcon for years and had become an influential force in their community.

The Defense Department’s inspector general detailed in a report released Thursday that former chief spokeswoman Dana White misused subordinates by having them carry out personal errands, including booking personal travel and handling her dry cleaning.

The Wisconsin National Guard said the aircraft lost its data link with the operator at the Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center when it was northwest of Volk Field.

Army Secretary Mark Esper’s nomination to be the next defense secretary was approved Thursday in a voice vote by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Responsible for infusing about $3 billion a year into New Mexico's economy, Los Alamos National Laboratory is being held up by lab officials, politicians and others as an example of the kind of high-tech economic drivers the state needs more of.

NASA has long relied on the deep bench of servicemembers and veterans. But less considered are astronauts who have experienced the extreme ends of the humanity spectrum: the life-altering brutality of war, then the peaceful and scientific exploration of space's infinite potential.

Gov. Charlie Baker's administration says transgender soldiers remain welcome in the Massachusetts National Guard, despite President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military.

Chicago police scrambled to a Loop office building Thursday afternoon after getting a call about an active shooter, but it ended up being a drill that employees were not told about, authorities said. The drill went awry.