Deputy Robyn Roe understands why it was a big accomplishment in the eyes of some people for her to become the first female SWAT operator for the San Juan County Sheriff's Office. But for her, it was nothing to get excited about.

The airman told investigators that he came to meet the girl to tell her she should not be meeting people on Craigslist, and as a member of the base's security forces had planned to do a "reverse bust."

The USS Indianapolis sunk just past midnight on July 30, 1945. Now, 72 years later, it has been found at a depth of more than 18,000 feet, resting on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean.

Luis Alberto Morales pleaded guilty to producing child pornography after federal prosecutors dropped a charge of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. He also will have lifetime supervision after he is released and must register as a sex offender.

After two tours with the Army in the Middle East, Carlos Lugo was about to turn his childhood dream into a reality but one obstacle remained in his way. Lugo is missing half of his left arm.

The tragedy has raised questions about the appropriateness of such training for high school players. Experts have said such vigorous training techniques are usually reserved for Navy SEALs.

With the start of the school year just around the corner, military parents and their children made their way to F.E. Warren Air Force Base's Pronghorn Center

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It was a remarkably successful bit of marketing sleight of hand in which New England monument companies sold the same statues to towns and citizens' groups on both sides of the Civil War divide. Southern customers eventually caught on and sought to buy statues of soldiers who were more obviously Greys rather than Blues.

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone, authorities said Friday.

Federal authorities say Southern California Marines were recruited for a scheme that bilked the government's military health insurance provider out of $67 million.

A National Guard proposal to expand airspace for fighter jet training low over the mountains of western Maine has dragged on for so long that many of the aircraft currently used for training could be retired by the time the plans are completed.

Longstanding concerns about right-wing extremists in the military include such groups seeking to infiltrate the services to gain tactical knowledge and about troops’ radicalization after they’ve joined.

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In moments like this, of national crisis or tragedy, presidents typically use the broad appeal of the presidency to unite and soothe, urging citizens to remember their humanity, their common bonds as Americans. Like no other president in recent history, Trump has struggled with this part of his duties.

After two tours with the Army in the Middle East, Carlos Lugo was about to turn his childhood dream into a reality but one obstacle remained in his way. Lugo is missing half of his left arm.

Jesus Cantu, 59, a retired Navy captain and Stanford graduate, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to conspiracy to commit bribery. He is the 19th defendant to be convicted so far. Federal prosecutors have charged 10 others whose cases are pending.

A Northern California man who was spending his first wedding anniversary overseas was among those killed in a deadly truck attack in Barcelona, Spain, his family said Friday.

The Augusta National Security Agency leak suspect will get to review classified information federal prosecutors might use against her during her upcoming espionage trial.

U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a full combatant command and might split from the National Security Agency to streamline the military’s cyberspace operations, the White House announced Friday.

Commanding officers will have the ability to restore the E-4 rank of sailors who were demoted to E-3 for minor offenses under new guidelines that take effect in December, the Navy said.

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When they are together, it's not hard to see the Boy Scouts they were when they met seven decades ago, in the barbed-wire Japanese internment camp that sprawled over desolate fields. One was imprisoned here; one belonged to the only troop that agreed to a jamboree on the inside.

Steve Bannon, the blunt-spoken and divisive strategist who rose from Donald Trump's conservative campaign to a top White House post, was pushed out by the president Friday, capping a turbulent seven months marked by the departure of much of Trump's original senior staff.

The Salvation Army, the American Red Cross and Susan G. Komen on Friday joined a growing exodus of organizations canceling plans to hold fundraising events at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, deepening the financial impact to President Donald Trump's private business amid furor over his comments on Charlottesville.

Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honor a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last weekend's deadly confrontation at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday for the Davis Barracks, named after Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a 1936 West Point graduate who would go on to become the Air Force's first black general.

Friday's exodus heightened the arts world's contentious relationship with Trump. The president struggled to find entertainers, many of whom backed Hillary Clinton in 2016, to perform at his inaugural gala, and Kennedy Center honorees for lifetime achievement have already said they will not attend the White House reception in December.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud was in court Friday to be sentenced when the judge raised the questions about the case and eventually postponed the hearing.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud is set to be sentenced Friday morning in federal court in Columbus. Court documents unsealed earlier this summer show Mohamud pleaded guilty almost two years ago to terrorism charges.

A San Diego-based sailor and his girlfriend were arrested on suspicion of child abuse and torture after his malnourished 5-year-old son was found gravely injured in their home Tuesday, authorities said.

West Point is where Robert E. Lee learned to be a soldier and later served as superintendent before resigning from the U.S. Army to lead Confederate troops during the Civil War. It's also where a cadet barracks is named after him.

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Officials with the National Park Service said the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania will not be removed from the battlefield.

Col. Shana Peck has been temporarily suspended from command of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bliss after she was arrested in southern New Mexico and accused of driving while under the influence.

Sgt. Allen Stigler and Sgt. Roshain Brooks are back home. The two soldiers, killed in Iraq on Aug. 13, arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Tuesday, where officials conducted a dignified transfer of the remains.

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Three weeks after Donald Trump, their commander in chief, clouded their futures through a string of tweets, saying he won’t allow them to serve in the military “in any capacity,” thousands of transgender servicemembers continue to serve the nation, still anxiously awaiting official policy to determine their fate.

All around the country, officials are discussing whether to remove memorials and rename public spaces dedicated to Confederate leaders. But not at the Pentagon.

Criticism of Confederate monuments has been intensifying since Saturday, when a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent after white nationalists opposed to the city's plan to remove a statue of Lee clashed with counter protesters.

A settlement was announced Thursday in a landmark lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against two psychologists involved in designing the CIA's harsh interrogation program used in the war on terror.

Reach Veteran Services of Terre Haute is opening a first-of-its-kind homeless shelter for veterans that aims to address root causes of chronic homelessness.

Out of sight, but still online, Trump tweeted his defense of monuments to Confederate icons — bemoaning rising efforts to remove them as an attack on America's "history and culture."

Taking down statues of Confederate figures is "just like" removing a monument to victims of the 9/11 attacks, Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday, adding that the white nationalist and far-left protesters in Charlottesville over the weekend were "equally as bad" and "disgusting."

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For some baby boomers, North Korea's nuclear advances prompt flashbacks to a time when they were young, and when they prayed each night that they might awaken the next morning. For their children, the North Korean crisis is a taste of what the Cold War was like.

It took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hate and violence.

The bill immediately eliminates the 15-year limit veterans currently have to tap into their education benefits. That restriction will no longer apply to veterans discharged on or after Jan. 1, 2013, or to current and future servicemembers.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met with sailors serving on the submarine USS Kentucky last week, praising them for their sacrifices — and issuing an off-color compliment.

By Wednesday, the top generals from the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and National Guard and the Navy’s top admiral had individually condemned intolerance following racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A U.S. servicemember died Wednesday after being wounded during partnered operations with Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, the military said.

Capt. Brett DeVries was practicing bombing and strafing runs at Grayling Air Gunnery Range when on his second pass, his gun malfunctioned and the canopy blew off his aircraft. The wind then caught in his helmet and slammed his head against his seat.

A picture of a man wearing a hat with the insignia of the Army's 82nd Airborne giving a KKK salute in Charlottesville circulated Twitter this week, prompting a response from the division.

A picture of a man wearing a hat with the insignia of the Army's 82nd Airborne giving a KKK salute in Charlottesville circulated Twitter this week, prompting a response from the division.

Army veteran David Rogers was assaulted by an off-duty Prince George's County police officer as he attempted to help a neighbor who was locked out of her car. The county was found liable in a recent court case.

Dillon Hopper’s service with the Marines ended in January, according to federal records, several months after the Anti-Defamation League says he took charge of the white supremacist group Vanguard America.

Austin police say a murder suspect and his victim, 57-year-old Allen Niedermann, began to bicker about the “respective military branches” they had served in before the deadly fight broke out.

Shulkin, who is Jewish, spoke to reporters and said that although he serves Trump, he does not speak for him. He declined to tell President Donald Trump it was wrong for him to equate their violence with that of counterprotesters who stood up to them.

A federal judge Wednesday delivered a victory to the U.S. government in its effort to arrest terror suspects overseas for trial in civilian courts, ruling that prosecutors can use the statements of the accused ringleader of the 2012 attacks on an American compound in Libya.

A Wisconsin man came perilously close to death after accidentally shooting a nail into his heart while working on his house. He then calmly drove himself to the hospital and even parked his pickup truck in the lot before walking into the emergency room.

Two Air National Guard aircraft will head to the Pacific Northwest to help detect and map wildfires.

A Pentagon prosecutor pressed an embarrassed and reluctant Saudi terrorist Wednesday to describe his abuse during his 2002-03 interrogations in Afghanistan, including an episode of an Army private shoving his genitals in the man’s face.

Spc. Alex Beall, an Oregon National Guard member who fought in the war in Afghanistan, is being deployed along with more than 100 fellow guard members to take on a different foe: A wildfire at the state's iconic Crater Lake.

Many local and state governments announced that they would remove statues and other imagery from public land, or consider doing so, in the aftermath of Saturday's white nationalist rally that killed one person and injured dozens more.

Vietnam War Army veteran Dennis Korzi needed a shoulder replacement he knew from experience who he wanted to do the operation: orthopedic surgeon Rex Herbert, who left a booming private practice in Harrisburg in 2009 to join the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

Confederate monuments in Baltimore were removed and hauled away on trucks in darkness early Wednesday, days after a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia that was sparked by plans to take down a similar statue there.

An admitted Saudi terrorist making good on a plea deal testified for war court prosecutors Tuesday that an Iraqi captive awaiting a war crimes trial served as his al-Qaida commander in league with the Taliban in Afghanistan long before the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump's threat of military action to resolve Venezuela's political crisis, saying Latin America successfully got rid of foreign intervention and this must be safeguarded.

Mourners will gather in Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday to honor the woman who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally that descended into violence last weekend.

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President Donald Trump defiantly blamed "both sides" for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Virginia, seeking to rebuff the widespread criticism of his handling of the emotionally-charged protests while showing sympathy for the fringe group's efforts to preserve Confederate monuments.

Nathan Damigo, a former Marine and convicted felon, is the founder of a white nationalist group, Identity Evropa. He is one of the organizers of a demonstration that led to racially charged violence during the weekend in Charlottesville, Va.

The settlement resolves allegations that Huntington Ingalls charged labor costs to contracts for which work wasn't actually done, and charged the government as if supervisors had dived to work on ship hulls, or even for dives that never happened.

Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier on Monday at a rally against racism.

Arely Brigette Ruiz was set to plead guilty, but reneged on the plea deal after she refused to admit she intentionally and knowingly attempted to kill her husband, Luis Manuel Beltran, a corporal stationed at Fort Bliss

Samantha Bloom, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, repeatedly called police about her son, James Alex Fields Jr., in 2010 and 2011, telling officers he was on medication to control his temper, transcripts from 911 calls show.

A northern Indiana man was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the January 2016 slaying 27-year-old Jodie Henderson, a member of the Army National Guard.

The alert went out on a radio station just after midnight Tuesday in Guam and said a "civil danger warning" had been issued for the island. The Guam Homeland Security office blamed it on human error.

The Bell 407 helicopter involved in the weekend crash that killed two Virginia State Police officers also crashed in 2010, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Tuesday.

Perfluorinated chemicals have been linked to cancer and other illnesses but aren't federally regulated in drinking water. Water has been contaminated near sites of industrial facilities and U.S. military bases.

The Mothers of Military Service (MOMS) Leave Act would allow female members of the Guard and Reserves to receive pay and points toward retirement for six drills weekends, or 12 pay periods.

A black bear hunt took place on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson this summer for the first time in several decades – if not longer, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Advocates have petitioned for the immediate release of an Afghan man who has been detained for five months since he tried to enter the United States on a special visa for people who helped the U.S. military.

A SpaceX capsule rocketed to the International Space Station on Monday, carrying tons of science research, plus ice cream.

Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: "Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin."

First responders in three separate states are under investigation over social media posts that allegedly mocked the protests that turned violent over the weekend in Virginia.

President Donald Trump on Monday named and condemned hate groups as "repugnant" and declared "racism is evil" in an updated, more forceful statement on the deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Simone Askew is making history as the first black woman to lead the Long Grey Line at the U.S. Military Academy. The 20-year-old international history major from Fairfax, Va., assumed duties Monday as first captain of the 4,400-member Corps of Cadets.

Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.

The man charged with driving a car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, received military training at Fort Benning in 2015, U.S. Army officials confirmed Monday.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis left the door open Monday to some transgender servicemembers continuing to serve in the U.S. military, three weeks after President Donald Trump said that they would not be allowed to do so "in any capacity."

Federal officials arrested Jerry Drake in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb in an alley adjacent to BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City. Varnell is charged with attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce.

A senior Republican senator is condemning criticism of President Donald Trump's national security adviser as "smear tactics" leveled by the same people who he says sparked the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

An infamous neo-Nazi website has been evicted from its home on the Internet after a violent white nationalist rally drew fresh attention to hate speech in the United States.

After the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., efforts showed that angry online groups can be used to renounce racism as well as promote it.

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Monday's event at Veterans Memorial Park in Window Rock also commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. The U.S. Marine Corps laid a wreath at the park and honored code talkers who have died with a 21-gun salute.

An Ohio man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia will remain in jail — at least until he has an attorney.

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Since the Great Depression, Nokona has been making gloves in a small town outside Dallas with a long history of producing boots and whips for cowboys.

H. Jay Cullen, 48, was a veteran pilot who spent several years shepherding the governor around Virginia. Berke Bates, who would have turned 41 on Sunday, was just beginning to realize a lifelong dream of becoming a helicopter pilot.

Edinburg Assistant Police Chief Oscar Trevino says the immigrants may have been locked inside the 18-wheeler in Edinburg for at least eight hours before being freed by officers late Sunday morning.

Religious and civil rights leaders called on President Donald Trump to fire White House advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, whose association with the white-supremacist “alt-right” movement has come under heightened scrutiny after Saturday’s violent clash in Charlottesville, Va.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday strongly defended President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, seeking to counter widespread criticism that the president did not go far enough in denouncing white supremacists and other hate groups.

As President Donald Trump remained out of sight and silent, pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for him to explicitly condemn white supremacists and hate groups involved in deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Demonstrating the delicate balancing act that has come to define his vice presidency, Mike Pence tried to strike a balance Sunday in Colombia between Latin American opposition to possible U.S. military intervention in neighboring Venezuela, and President Donald Trump's surprising refusal to rule out that option.

One of Venezuela’s most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

The proposal, endorsed by the Pentagon and the State Department, reflects his administration's growing frustration with Russian intransigence on Ukraine and a broader deterioration in U.S.-Russian ties.

According to U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., at least 60,000 servicemen were exposed to mustard gas and other chemical weapons during World War II by the U.S. military.