Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump have a difficult agenda that includes Turkey’s decision to buy a Russian air defense system and its attack on Kurdish forces in Syria. Trump calls Turkey a critical ally and cites the strong economic upside to the relationship, saying the two countries have enough in common to overcome their differences.

Sgt. Alexis Sanchez, remembered as a doting father and devout Christian by friends and family, was shot and killed in his apartment Oct. 27. Cpl. William Garcia — who, like Sanchez, is assigned to the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division — is accused of fatally wounding the Fort Carson soldier.

The U.S. Navy has agreed to name a warship in honor of late Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar.

During a 12-year period beginning in 1964, soldiers at Fort Jackson fired rockets and tossed hand grenades on the base’s southern boundary, just across Leesburg Road from a community that today is living with a chemical threat the explosives left behind.

Analysis

The online spin began even before Wednesday’s impeachment hearing got underway.

Veterans are a key target for online fraud and attempts to meddle in U.S. elections, with bogus web pages and charities aimed at the military community pushing propaganda and disinformation to gin up political discord, tech industry leaders and House lawmakers said Wednesday.

As a hearing to learn details of the deadly Conception dive boat fire approaches, members of California's congressional delegation say it's time for the Coast Guard to consider stronger protections.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that remains had been found in a wooded area of Alabama between the towns of Linden and Demopolis, where the girl’s mother has family.

Faced with recruiting struggles, the Army has begun to shift to online communications, saying that young people are now more interested in connecting on the Internet. As a result, the service is utilizing apps, such as the China-owned video app TikTok, to reach young Americans.

None of the Air Force, Marines and Navy variants of the Lockheed Martin fighter is meeting its five key “reliability or maintainability metrics,” according to a Pentagon spokesman.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Vincent Danz was a New York City police officer in the Bronx, and Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Palazzo was a New York City firefighter. They were among many first responders who lost their lives on 9/11.

Twenty senators signed letters to Defense Secretary Mark Esper and VA Secretary Robert Wilkie urging action to protect veterans and service members after a two-year study found the military community is targeted through social media by foreign agents.

The annual spending estimates released Wednesday show a general decline in war costs in 2019 as U.S. troops face less combat in major war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Still, the estimated price tag for those wars increased some $500 billion since November 2018.

ANALYSIS

As diplomats kick off nationally televised impeachment hearings on Wednesday, it is clear how, more than in any political scandal in modern history, career employees have emerged as crucial witnesses.

As the climate changes, there could be plenty more black flag days ahead, especially in Florida, a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists found. America’s military bases could see an average of an extra month of dangerously hot days by midcentury. In Florida, they could quadruple.

An arctic blast that sent shivers across the Midwest spread to the eastern U.S. on Wednesday, with bitter weather breaking records from Mississippi to Maine.

Analysis

A “solemn day” or a “show trial”? Americans and the world can decide for themselves as House Democrats let the public in to the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

Beginning Jan. 1, lieutenant colonels on the centralized selection list will undergo a five-day audition at Fort Knox, Ky., through the Battalion Commander Assessment Program, the Army said in a statement Nov. 6.

The soldiers — many of whom have jobs in interrogation, human intelligence and counterintelligence — noticed that the app's terms of service said it could collect substantial amounts of personal data, and that the developer has a presence overseas.

The departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs said the number of veterans who are homeless fell by 2% between 2018 and 2019. That follows a decline of 5% from a year earlier and is down by almost 50% from 2009.

Marine Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown, 22, is wanted on charges of second degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony for his alleged role in the death of 54-year-old Rodney Brown.

The U.S. wars against terrorism have lasted 18 years, and post-9/11 veterans and service members could soon have a memorial on the National Mall to honor their service.

Now that the USS Harry S. Truman is repaired, “every effort is being made to make the carrier, air wing and sailors operationally ready to deploy,” the Navy said. The service did not say how soon the ship would deploy.

Donald Trump has expressed an interest in pardoning service members accused of crimes, despite concern among some Pentagon leaders that such action could damage military discipline and morale.

Faced with recruiting struggles, the Army has begun to shift to online communications, saying that young people are now more interested in connecting on the Internet. As a result, the service is utilizing apps, such as the China-owned video app TikTok, to reach young Americans.

The lawsuit states maintenance requests made by the families were ignored or met with substandard responses that did not fix the underlying issues in the homes.

The USS Grayback, one of World War II's most effective submarines, was found in the ocean off Okinawa, Japan, more than 1,400 feet below the surface.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is the Ukraine specialist at the White House's National Security Council who was on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy.

Having ceased cooperating with police in her daughter’s disappearance, Petty Officer Brianna Williams is now considered a person of interest in the disappearance of 5-year-old Taylor Rose Williams, police announced Monday.

It is unclear how much the web camera initiative will cost, or how the technology will be used. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has funds available for planning and mapping of the structure that could pay for the video feeds, according to one person involved in the discussions.

Everett Glenn Miller was feeling “hopeless” and “angry” when he sought medical help from the VA four days before killing two Kissimmee police officers in 2017, an expert witness told jurors Tuesday.

U.S. Army Capt. Antoine Marvin Lewis was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March en route to Nairobi, Kenya, when it crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.

President Donald Trump said on Twitter that DACA recipients shouldn't despair if the justices side with him, pledging that "a deal will be made with the Dems for them to stay!"

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a survivor and relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting can pursue their lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 26 people.

A fight over President Donald Trump's demands for up to $8 billion in new funding for his U.S.-Mexico border fence project is largely responsible for an impasse on the huge spending package, which would implement the details of this summer's hard-won budget accord.

A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment.

Gaafar Mohammed Ebrahim al-Wazer — a 24-year-old Yemeni national who arrived in the United States five years ago — lied on his application for a student visa and later other immigration documents about his association with the Houthi rebel movement.

The administration has begun work on 129 miles of Pentagon-funded projects in California, Arizona and New Mexico since the Supreme Court ruled in July that construction can proceed during a legal challenge.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Christmas Tree Association are partnering on an effort that will ship more than 100 Christmas trees to military members stationed overseas.

White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he no longer plans to sue over the House impeachment proceedings and instead will follow President Donald Trump’s directions and decline to cooperate.

Carter, 95, was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls.

Most members of the House Intelligence Committee aren’t household names, but they’re about to be thrust into the national spotlight as public hearings begin in the impeachment inquiry.

The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful federal oversight despite the crucial role they play in U.S. elections, leaving the nation’s electoral process vulnerable to attack, according to a new report.

The White House's bifurcated and disjointed response to Democrats' impeachment inquiry has been fueled by a fierce West Wing battle between two of President Donald Trump's top advisers, and the outcome of the messy skirmish could be on full display this week.

The Experimental Aircraft Association organization spent 10 years restoring a B-17 aircraft, aiming to give veterans and others a chance to fly one of the most celebrated planes of World War II. Aviation fans can book 30-minute flights at $450 for those who aren't EAA members. Veterans and active military members fly free.

Former President Jimmy Carter was recovering Tuesday from surgery to relieve pressure from bleeding on his brain. His spokeswoman said there were no complications from the procedure at Emory University Hospital.

During a ceremony, Dennis Schoville and Steven Brown reflected on what happened in 1969 in the South Vietnamese skies over the Mekong Delta.

A Virginia National Guard sergeant accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York officials that was aimed at preventing the release of his tax returns.

The view among the national security officials was unanimous: Military aid to Ukraine should not be stopped by the White House. That was the testimony of Laura Cooper, a Defense Department official, whose deposition was released Monday in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

The Democratic proposals, coming two days before historic impeachment hearings, sought to highlight policy differences with the embattled president before a key bloc of voters.

Rep. Peter King, a moderate Republican who has represented a Long Island congressional district for nearly 30 years, announced Monday he won’t seek re-election, enhancing Democrats’ chances to grab yet another suburban House seat as they defend their majority in 2020.

ANALYSIS

To understand the complexity of programming self-driving cars, experts on autonomous vehicles say, consider a deer, a moose or a cow — all rust-colored, four-legged mammals you might find roaming along the side of the road. Human drivers know they also behave differently. A machine might not.

Military commanders have expressed concerns about advances in the adversaries' ability to jam, ram or destroy satellites in orbit.

The bill is intended to make South Carolina more competitive for retired veterans with the 31 other states who have already exempted the veterans’ income.

There are two questions before the Supreme Court: whether federal judges can even review the decision to end the program and, if they can, whether the way the administration has gone about winding down DACA is legal.

White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s last-minute effort to join a lawsuit that could determine whether senior administration officials testify in the impeachment inquiry was an unwelcome surprise to former top national security aides, highlighting internal divisions among President Donald Trump’s advisers in the face of the probe.

Oracle is pressing forward with a long-running legal challenge to the Pentagon’s massive cloud computing contract, its third such attempt to upend the procurement since the project was announced 18 months ago.

Two of President Donald Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser says Trump will confront Turkey’s leader about his decision to buy a Russian air defense system when they meet Wednesday at the White House.

Iran on Sunday said an open Revolutionary Court case involving an ex-FBI agent who disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission “was a missing person” filing, not a sign that the man was being prosecuted.

Founded in 2017, the State Funeral for World War II Veterans wants President Donald Trump to approve a state funeral for the last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, only two of whom remain alive.

For his military service, Robert Martin was bestowed honors such as the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.

On Nov. 1, 1952, after watching an island get vaporized by the world's first hydrogen bomb, Alan Jones and the crew on the research vessel Horizon were doused in a shower of radioactive fallout.

Smith Reservoir is among the first batch of dams nationally to get a slice of a new $10 million grant program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for high hazard dams that have failed safety standards and pose an unacceptable risk to the public.

An 18-vehicle caravan carrying about 100 members of an offshoot Mormon community leaving their homes after a violent attack in Mexico arrived in Arizona on Saturday.

Officials say three trains were involved in a derailment in western Pennsylvania, prompting cancellation of rail service between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, but no injuries were reported.

The 22-year-old 1st Lt. Joseph Finneran was shot down north of Bucharest, Romania on Aug. 1, 1943 during a bombing mission. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and other military honors.

A week after receiving the nation's highest military honor for his heroism during a battle in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Matthew Williams was in the auditorium at Putnam City West High School on Friday fielding students' questions about whether he had been scared, how he felt about killing people and whether he was happy.

Analysis

Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, an Air Force veteran and unsuccessful Republican candidate for president, was poised to cap off his political career as one of Donald Trump's longest-serving and scandal-free Cabinet members. Now he may be remembered as being one of the "three amigos" at the center of the House impeachment inquiry.

When Korean War veteran Eugene Ward got off the boat on the Korean Peninsula in 1951, he volunteered for a risky job. "I trained in demolitions. I looked for land mines on patrol."

Analysis

Perhaps the most likely way President Donald Trump can win next November is with voters in rural regions of key battleground states, who didn't back him in 2016 but are inclined to do so now. "Is there more meat on the bone?" said Mike Shields, a former chief of staff at the Republican National Committee. "The answer is yes. And the data backs it up." Democrats are taking the threat seriously.

Analysis

After previous oversight hearings backfired, the House Intelligence Committee hopes to do what other panels failed to do in their investigations of President Trump: deliver a dramatic rendering of the facts that make clear how Trump's actions represent abuses of power that are considered high crimes and misdemeanors.

After returning from the Air Force to Detroit in 1972, Richard Chatman headed to suburbs like Dearborn and Royal Oak each year for Veterans Day parades because there wasn't anything organized in his city. That was until he and other members of the Metropolitan Detroit Veterans Coalition started the Detroit Veterans Day Parade more than a decade ago.

Authorities said a suburban Las Vegas woman, dragged to California by father-and-daughter kidnappers, was suffering from cold and exposure when military authorities found her near Edward Air Force Base.

ANALYSIS

Alexander Vindman is suddenly a crucial figure in a controversy that could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump — hailed by Trump's critics as a patriotic truth-teller, dismissed by the president and his allies as a disloyal tattler who is somehow not fully American.

The 10-year-old Belgian malinois, who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army, is an ambassador for his breed who loves belly rubs and the Star Spangled Banner.

Army Pfc. Karl L. Dye, 17, was reported missing July 16, 1950, after an ambulance he was in reportedly encountered an enemy roadblock near Taejon, South Korea.

The tree-lined hills and valleys beckoned the young Army private as his ‘35 black Chevy hugged the narrow road, a hairpin curve almost upon him. Basic Army training was behind and the war just ahead, his 3-day leave wedged in between for saying good-byes. But before the fading autumn sun could dim the burnished foliage, this 18-year old would be called to serve in a way he couldn’t have imagined.

On Nov. 9, 1989, Sgt. Michael Rafferty heard on Armed Forces Network that East Germans would soon be allowed to travel unimpeded to the West. He called a guard on duty at Checkpoint Charlie to see if anything had changed. "No," was the reply. He went to bed. The next morning, though, there was pandemonium, Rafferty recalled.

At an auction in Connecticut, antiques dealer James Kochan expected to sell a sword carried in 1811 by future President William Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe for at least $100,000. But then local police seized it, saying it was stolen.

Military veteran Dan Miller didn’t ask for help when he woke up shouting from nightmares or after deployments to war zones in 1991, 2004 and 2008. He often thought about those he couldn’t save. Years later, after his work as a police officer summoned grisly memories of death, he found himself in a car by a cornfield with a gun contemplating suicide. He decided then to ask for help.

The extract that’s been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is derived legally from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like marijuana. They’re so similar, police officers and the field tests they use on suspected drugs sometimes can’t tell the difference.

The return of the troops will mark the end of a controversial “short-term mission” by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

A bond rooted in common ground, as much as contrast, ties two sprightly World War II veterans who collected a few battle stars each, dote on each other's tales and reflect with intent on Veterans Day.

Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen and a media partnership manager for Twitter's Middle East region, is charged with acting as an agent of Saudi Arabia without registering with the U.S. government.

President Donald Trump's campaign saw Roger Stone as an informal channel to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential race, when the anti-secrecy group published troves of damaging emails about rival Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, this according to Steve Bannon.

House Republicans sent Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff a list of witnesses they want to testify in the impeachment inquiry, including former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and the anonymous whistleblower who filed the initial complaint against President Donald Trump.

Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson is considering a run for Congress in Texas, two sources familiar with his plans said Friday. Jackson was the chief White House physician in 2018, when President Donald Trump nominated him to be Veterans Affairs secretary. But Jackson withdrew his nomination from consideration after what he called "completely false and fabricated" allegations against him surfaced.

A federal judge agreed Friday to let indicted lawmaker Rep. Duncan Hunter to travel overseas to be part of a congressional delegation traveling to Belgium for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

President Donald Trump said Friday he may release the summary of a second phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky that House Democrats have sought as part of their impeachment inquiry.

Oversight ranking member Jim Jordan will serve on the Intelligence Committee during public impeachment proceedings, temporarily replacing GOP Rep. Rick Crawford, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Friday.

A new PBS film, “The Warrior Tradition,” seeks to examine the history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I.