Cpl. Thae Ohu, 27, has struggled with PTSD and other conditions following a sexual assault by a fellow Marine years ago — trauma that led to a psychological break this spring, her family contends.

Two former Marines based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., were arrested for illegally making, transporting and selling firearms, including one who was investigated for white supremacist activities while in the service, the Justice Department announced.

Aircraft were being evacuated from at least a couple of area military bases as Hurricane Zeta approached the shores of the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday.

In combat, Maj. Evan Adams is a tank officer. more than a decade ago, he was a graphic design major in college, a skill he put to use in a new Army effort aimed at gathering innovative ideas from within. On Wednesday, the 18th Airborne Corps announced Adams as the winner of their inaugural Dragon Innovation Challenge.

Edgar Alexis Lopez, a 24-year-old Mexican construction worker was out of water, exhausted after climbing over the border wall and convinced he would faint. Abandoned by his smuggling guide, he and his father called for help.

The 30-foot-tall wooden tower is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places but has been an Ormond-by-the-Sea landmark for nearly eight decades.

The USS John S. McCain barracks opened Tuesday and will house junior sailors learning at technical schools at the base near Chicago.

The moves by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, were aimed at curbing incidents of looting, fires and dozens of minor injuries to officers that officials said were caused by people taking advantage of the backlash against the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

A contingent of 75 soldiers in an Iowa Army National Guard unit in Davenport has received deployment orders for Operation Spartan Shield and Inherent Resolve in U.S. Central Command.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was ordered to immediately begin expanding mail delivery with extra trips and later deliveries after the U.S. Postal Service failed to improve performance less than a week before the election.

The FBI has arrested five individuals on charges they conspired as foreign agents in an operation called “Foxhunt” to try to force Chinese immigrants who have run afoul of that country’s leadership to return to China to be punished, officials announced Wednesday.

Brookhaven, Ga., will become the first city in the southeast to adopt a first responder program that uses unmanned drones to respond to 911 calls and emergencies and to conduct investigations.

With next week's election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google received a hectoring from Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for alleged anti-conservative bias in the companies' social media platforms — and were warned of coming restrictions from Congress.

Boeing on Wednesday announced it will shrink its workforce further, saying that by the end of next year it will employ 31,000 fewer people companywide than at the beginning of this year.

Microsoft says Iranian hackers have posed as conference organizers in Germany and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break into the email accounts of "high-profile" people with spoofed invitations.

Facebook's ban on new political ads got off to a rocky start Tuesday, as political advertisers complained some ads were incorrectly blocked and others complained of rule-breaking posts that could still be misleading.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is preparing to make land available to third-party investors or users for possible leasing and development.

Jerry Miller's itinerant early life helped him learn a valuable lesson that he applied to his later life. His naval officer father's career kept the family moving around when Miller was a child, and learning to fit in to new environments gave him skills he could use

The Marine Corps is ditching tanks, but its tankers are working to preserve their unique subculture, some with hopes that their special breed may one day be called on again.

Most Marine tankers have chosen to stay in the Corps rather than join the Army to keep on tanking in the months since the top Marine general called for the shuttering of heavy armor battalions earlier this year.

Some 200 new privates nearing the end of basic training at Fort Sill, Okla., received the Army’s new, throwback style dress green uniforms this month, becoming the first recruits issued the World War II-inspired threads.

The cadets were angry, venting on an anonymous chat app widely used at the Virginia Military Institute. The target of their rage: Black cadets and alumni who publicly detailed the relentless racism they’d encountered at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is urging Defense Secretary Mark Esper to hold off on implementing new Tricare enrollment fees for a year to give military families some economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic and so they can become informed about the new charges.

The commander of Fort Bliss has barred off-base dining and all trick-or-treating for Halloween in response to the surge of coronavirus cases at the Army base and in nearby El Paso, which accounted for more than 30% of all new cases reported in Texas on Monday.

Marine veteran and journalist Austin Tice disappeared at a checkpoint in a Damascus suburb as he was trying to reach Lebanon. U.S. officials have said they believe he is still alive and in the custody of either Syrian forces or a militia allied with the government.

The U.S. Army on Tuesday at the General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford received the first Infantry Squad Vehicle made by GM Defense LLC, just 120 days after winning the contract.

An administrator at Norfolk’s Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy conspired with three other men to sell phony Coast Guard merchant mariner credentials, federal prosecutors said this week.

Descartes will work on this research and development project with the Air Force Research Lab's Space Technology Advanced Research program based at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

The FBI probed whether emails purportedly recovered from a laptop allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son are part of a Russian disinformation operation to interfere in the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Opinion

Censorship is censorship, and as Twitter and Facebook swoop in to protect Biden from what they think is a misinformation campaign, will they continue to allow the spreading of anti-Trump stories based on questionable anonymous sources journalists have relied on for the past four years?

Whether Cal Cunningham's strategy alters the outcome of what's now the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history will depend on whether swing voters are set on removing GOP Sen. Thom Tillis — and potentially ending GOP control of the chamber — even if it means a replacement facing a sex scandal.

The business associate's appearance Thursday night, organized by the Trump campaign, was the latest episode in a multiyear effort by Trump and his allies to use Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings as a cudgel against his father's campaign.

Readers of the Wall Street Journal may have felt a bit of whiplash on Thursday over a news story and an opinion column that presented sharply conflicting accounts of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's alleged role in one of his son's business ventures.

A night of jealousy and violence Oct. 11 saw Capt. Clevy Muchette Nelson-Royster and a civilian man chase down her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Capt. Malcom X. Perry, and ram his car with her vehicle until his car flipped and burst into flames, according to an arrest affidavit.

Under the executive order, career federal employees whose work involves making policy would no longer would be hired under competitive procedures and would lose their civil service protections, among other benefits.

U.S. Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30, from Wixom, Mich., and U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24, from Weddington, N.C., were aboard the U.S. Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft that crashed Oct. 23 in a residential area of Foley, Ala.

The fitness program proposal has received almost 800 votes and is now the most popular suggestion for Air Force Spark Tank 2021, a campaign designed to spur creative solutions and improvements by airmen.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is eliminating its in-house compensation and pension exam program and will outsource all of the exams, which are crucial to determining whether veterans are eligible for VA benefits.

Thirty senators criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday for failing to implement promises made nearly three years ago through an executive order that President Donald Trump signed to combat veteran suicide.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that contains dozens of methods to prevent suicide among veterans, including measures to boost mental health research and staffing at the VA and establish a grant program for state and local groups.

The Army is looking into a viral video showing a soldier drinking from an Ocean Spray juice bottle and lip-syncing the words of the Fleetwood Mac hit “Dreams” while on a daytime parachute jump.

During the year that White spent overseas leading the multination fight against the Islamic State, Fort Hood suffered a series of tragedies that gained national attention and called into question the safety of the 36,500 soldiers stationed there.

Duane Kyser said the appropriate thing to do with the remains of his uncle, who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma, is to return them to Muskogee, Okla., for burial.

Nestle told the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and other retailers that it will have “severe inventory constraints” in its Hot Pockets product lines.

If all goes as planned, some 5,500 soldiers with the Army's 25th Infantry Division will return to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii without a single coronavirus case reported during an almost monthlong training exercise in Louisiana, the division’s top general said Monday.

Officials for the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to participate Wednesday in a Senate hearing about the progress in implementing the Mission Act, a law passed two years ago to help improve health care for veterans.

Navajo Nation vice president Myron Lizer says Native American values — hard work, family and ranching — align more with the GOP than with Democrats. "I'm finding that we're giving the Navajo Republican voters confidence in coming out and showing their support," he said.

Despite a dozen agencies in two countries taking part in the investigation, there’s still no clear evidence to determine how or why 21-year-old Pvt. Richard Halliday disappeared from Fort Bliss in west Texas.

A spokesman at Fort Bragg, N.C., said Thursday that someone with official access to the Army post’s account was the culprit in a series of explicit tweets posted Wednesday after offering the explanation later Wednesday that the account was hacked.

Retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III has resigned, the Virginia Military Institute’s board president announced in a statement Monday, a week after state officials ordered an investigation into what they characterized as a culture of “ongoing structural racism.”

F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets scrambled late Monday to intercept Russian long-range bombers and fighters flying off Alaska’s coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday.

Many new coronavirus infections reported by U.S. military installations in Japan and South Korea have come from newly arrived personnel from the United States.

In normal circumstances, military homecomings are large, emotional events full of pomp and circumstance. Instead, this month’s homecomings for the 34th have been scattered, sedated affairs — intimate family reunions at the airport, packed with emotions but tinged with the reality that they are returning to a state and a nation completely changed from when they left.

The sailor who shot himself Tuesday morning while standing watch at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, was a 20-year-old man from California, a Navy spokesman said Friday.

A stopped train carrying military equipment piqued curiosity and a bit of a mystery in Worcester, Mass. Saturday afternoon, as families posed for pictures, veterans reminisced, and passing motorists snapped cellphone pics out the window of their vehicles.

All nine military ballots that were found trashed last month in Luzerne County will be counted, Luzerne County Manager David Pedri announced Monday in an email to county council members and other officials.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten has denied the allegations brought by former Army Col. Kathryn Spletstoser that he attacked her during a December 2017 trip to attend the Reagan National Defense Forum.

The military's five-year, $100-million national research initiative, called the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics, will focus on hypersonic flight systems.

The T-6B Texan II training plane had flown out of Naval Air Station Whiting Field, about 30 miles northeast of Pensacola, Florida.

The new program is hosted by Mary Ames Booker, the ship's curator of collections, who takes listeners through the decades-long history of the ship, which was the most decorated vessel in World War II with 15 battle stars.

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump's nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.

As tension builds toward Election Day, law enforcement officials in Washington and elsewhere are preparing for the prospect that this year's long, hot summer of unrest won't end on Nov. 3, regardless of who wins the presidency.

A joint effort by the Department of Homeland Security and a leading veterans group seeks to combat foreign disinformation in the final days before the election, more than a year after a report issued to lawmakers concluded that veterans are economically efficient targets of such efforts.

There were 122 ballots inside the box when it was emptied Sunday morning, and 87 of them were still legible and able to be processed.

The second hearing before a legislative oversight committee on the COVID-19 crisis at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is set to highlight accounts from staff who cared for sick and dying patients during the outbreak.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt's executive officer said Capt. Brett Crozier's nameplate, which has been replaced, was missing because someone 'took it as a souvenir.'

A day after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said “we’re not going to control the pandemic,” a top Trump administration health official said Monday that Americans already have proven they can do that through basic safeguards shown to work.

In talks with their Indian counterparts, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed an agreement Tuesday expanding military satellite information sharing and highlighted strategic cooperation between Washington and New Delhi and shared interests in a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Congress has left town until after the election without passing any new economic or health care relief measures even as the coronavirus pandemic surges and the economy sputters.

The resurgent covid-19 pandemic is pushing back the recovery in air travel, turning winter into a survival test for carriers now pinning hopes on a spring rebound.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, pressed to explain why the pandemic cannot be reined in, said, “Because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu.”

Analysis

President Donald Trump said he would shake up American trade policy. That he did. From Beijing to Brussels to Mexico City, he waged war with trading partners on multiple fronts.

One week until Election Day, Joe Biden went on offense Tuesday, heading to Georgia, which hasn't backed a Democrat for president since 1992 and pushing into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago.

The United States on Friday sanctioned a Russian government lab that built what experts say is potentially the world's deadliest hacking tool — malware designed to disrupt industrial control safety systems that protect human life.

Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her.

Months after it raced in successive waves along the nation's coasts and through the Sun Belt, the coronavirus is reaching deep into its final frontier — the nation's most sparsely populated states and counties.

As President Donald Trump barnstorms the swing states, often downplaying the coronavirus pandemic before largely unmasked crowds, the nation continues to lurch toward what his opponent Joe Biden, citing health experts, warned will be a “dark winter” of disease and death.

A trust-building initiative at Fort Hood takes a holistic approach to improving soldiers’ well-being. It aims to remove three “corrosives” that destroy trust – sexual assault and harassment; extremism and racism; and suicide.

The death of Spc. Skyler Oliver, 24, is under investigation by the Army criminal investigation command, as is standard with all unexpected service member deaths.

An airman assigned to Dyess Air Force Base was arrested Wednesday on charges that he uploaded an image of child pornography onto the internet from his home in Abilene, the city’s police department said.

The 67 volunteer soldiers will be assisting officers at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge over the next two weeks with duties such as distributing mail and meals, laundry and inmate counts.

The long-awaited Medal of Honor for Alwyn Cashe, who suffered fatal wounds while pulling six soldiers from a burning vehicle in Iraq, has been delayed in the Senate as lawmakers fight over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, according to congressional officials familiar with the issue.

Some 200 Fort Bragg soldiers were forced from their barracks this month after mold was found in two buildings housing troops with the 528th Special Operations Sustainment Brigade on the Army post in North Carolina, service officials said Thursday.

Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

Hundreds of crosses have already been installed outside the American Legion post in Howell Township to bring awareness to veteran suicide.

The vice president, who, along with his wife, tested negative on Sunday, according to his office, is considered a “close contact” of the aides under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria but will not quarantine, his spokesman said.

The vice president, who, along with his wife, tested negative on Sunday, according to his office, is considered a “close contact” of the aides under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria but will not quarantine, his spokesman said.

The Tennessee-based company that advertised for former special forces members to serve as armed guards at Minnesota polling places on Nov. 3 has told the Minnesota Attorney General's Office that it is rescinding its recruitment for the positions.

The expected confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is the culmination of a decadeslong coordinated effort by a constellation of conservative groups, fueled by tens of millions of dollars from wealthy anonymous donors, to tilt the high court further to the right.

Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta gradually strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and forecasters said it would likely become a hurricane before hitting Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast in coming days.

Family members of a Utah college student who was found strangled and burned last year following a search for her that captured the nation's attention called the man who pleaded guilty to her murder a "monster" as they confronted him Friday before he was sentenced to life in prison.

Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump during the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.”

Democrats and Republicans in the battleground state of Wisconsin were pushing Tuesday to get 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots returned by the close of polls on Election Day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline to receive and count ballots