A senator’s investigation into the Wounded Warrior Project after allegations of lavish spending last year has concluded that there were problems, but the organization is working to repair them.

A U.S. military general has told Alaska business owners that he's more worried about North Korea's missile advancements than he is about the country's current military capabilities.

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A Wisconsin woman pumping gas near downtown Milwaukee stopped a thief from stealing her SUV by jumping on its hood and clinging to the windshield wipers as the man tried to drive away in her vehicle.

Some veterans of the Navy's "Silent Service" are cringing at news that President Donald Trump disclosed the whereabouts of two submarines that are part of an undersea force that prides itself on stealth.

A Lakeland man was being held without bond on Thursday on his second arrest for soliciting money while falsely representing himself as an Army soldier.

Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be "modern day sex slaves," according to an indictment unsealed Thursday that charges high-level members of what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that concealed millions of dollars in earnings.

Of storms that emerge during the six-month season that begins June 1, five to nine will reach hurricane strength, according to the U.S. NOAA. Two to four may become major systems reaching Category 3 or stronger on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Brazil's president on Thursday cancelled an order to deploy the military to the streets of the capital after criticism that the move was excessive and merely an effort to hold onto power amid increasing calls for his resignation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and 21 other Republicans on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to follow through on his campaign pledge to pull out of the Paris climate accord.

A Senate panel overwhelmingly backed bipartisan legislation that would authorize President Donald Trump to put new sanctions on Iran while keeping the landmark nuclear deal with Tehran in place.

U.S. military phone calls with Russia have increased as the two countries work to avoid aircraft mishaps in the increasingly crowded skies over Syria, a senior American Air Force commander said Wednesday.

An Uzbek refugee serving 25 years behind bars for a plot to kill U.S. military personnel or civilians has been charged with stabbing the warden at the California federal prison where he was serving his sentence, prosecutors said Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon spending plan for 2018 sent to lawmakers on Tuesday includes a new round of base realignments and closures, a proposal that the Defense Department contends could save billions of much-needed dollars but will likely meet stiff opposition on Capitol Hill.

A list of the 5,166 U.S. Air Force technical sergeants who have been selected for promotion to master sergeant, as announced on May 24, 2017.

Zachary Boland died due to complications from pneumonia after concealing his illness from drill instructors at Parris Island in an attempt to avoid being dropped from training, the investigation found.

A lawsuit brought by Pvt. Chelsea Manning over the conditions of her confinement has been dismissed.

A Playboy centerfold was ordered to clean up graffiti Wednesday for secretly snapping a photo of a naked 71-year-old woman in a locker room and posting it online with a mocking comment.

Football standout Jalen Robinette did not graduate with his Air Force class Wednesday. The academy released a statement, saying his graduation and commission were on hold for reasons unrelated to his professional football pursuits or any criminal wrongdoing.

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Nearly 1,000 cadets are beginning their military careers after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The House has unanimously approved legislation that makes it a crime for U.S. service members to distribute intimate photos or videos of people without first getting their consent.

Democrats jumped on the report as further evidence that the GOP effort to repeal Obama's 2010 law — a staple of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and those of numerous GOP congressional candidates for years — would be destructive.

Anil Uskanli raised other red flags while still at Los Angeles International Airport, but experts say a lack of communication and an airline's hesitancy to be caught on video booting a passenger played a role in allowing him to fly.

Authorities say 32-year-old Si Chen, of Pomona, also known as Cathy Chen, was arrested Tuesday. It's unclear whether she has an attorney.

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The poor and the disabled are big losers in President Donald Trump's $4.1 trillion budget proposal while the Pentagon is a big winner.

The news comes just two months after Sessions recused himself from a Justice Department investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign after it was revealed that he had two previously undisclosed encounters with the Russian ambassador.

Branden Roy Baker, 34, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where he will face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 11.

President Donald Trump's budget proposal to provide federal tax money for private-school scholarships is getting pushback from an unconventional source: groups known for promoting school-choice initiatives.

Top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet are heading to Capitol Hill to defend his plans to cut domestic programs and parry Democratic criticism of his tax proposals.

Analysis

President Donald Trump's first budget proposal, snubbed by some Republican allies, is just the latest example of an administration that seems at times clueless or indifferent toward Congress.

The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal and replace a 2012 state law that bars Pennsylvania from complying with federally approved anti-terrorism travel rules at airports and federal property.

Analysis

The Trump administration's budget plan for 2018 assumes that a mix of sharp spending and tax cuts can both shrink the deficit and fuel economic growth of 3 percent a year — a level it hasn't achieved in more than a dozen years.

Both the Mississippi flag and the sign prominently display the Confederate battle emblem, which has caused a rift for generations between those who say it represents Southern heritage and those who call it racist.

The House unanimously passed legislation Tuesday aiming to shorten the amount of time veterans wait for earned benefits, a process that takes an average of six years when a veteran is forced to appeal a claim with the Board of Veterans' Appeals.

President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposes to inject $2.9 billion of new funding into a program that allows veterans to receive care outside the Department of Veterans Affairs, but comes at a cost to VA benefits programs – a move Democrats and veterans organizations criticized Wednesday.

A 68-year-old Wisconsin man who falsely claimed to be a Navy SEAL wounded four times in Vietnam has been sentenced to four years in prison for theft and faking paperwork. He also claimed he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

Brad Pitt and Gen. Stanley McChrystal — the inspiration to Pitt’s four-star Afghanistan commander in the upcoming Netflix war satire “War Machine “-- would seem to be worlds apart. One, an affable member of Hollywood’s elite; the other a hard-charging lifetime military man. But Pitt found one connection with his character: a swollen ego, and the damage done.

A former U.S. Navy captain who retired from the military in December, has joined a different type of army: Amazon.com, where he’s leading a team of about 70 people at a fulfillment center in Columbus, Ohio.

A group of lawmakers called for halting American funding for the war in Afghanistan, a day after President Donald Trump unveiled a Pentagon budget proposal that included no money for the additional U.S. troops that the White House might send there.

An investigation by The Associated Press this month found that Sallyport Global fired two of its investigators after they uncovered evidence of the trafficking as well as alcohol smuggling and major security violations at Balad Air Base.

Sailors should expect less notice — just two months — when it’s time for them to move to a new duty station, the Navy announced Monday.

Gowdy, who led the two-year House Benghazi probe, has secured near-unanimous support among members of the House Republican Steering Committee - the 36-member body that selects committee chairmen - and one key potential rival said Monday that he would not seek the Oversight gavel.

Three of the five suspects in the case have Fort Bliss ties. A Fort Bliss spokesman confirmed Brandon Olsen, 27, is stationed at the Army post and Zachary Johnston, 20, and Adam Acosta, 19, were former soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss more than a month ago.

The Trump administration has requested $166.1 billion for the Army in its proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, which if passed would represent the second consecutive year of increased funding for the service to restore forces and equipment and stabilize end-strength levels at the cost of long-term modernization.

A Florida teenager killed two roommates who had once shared his neo-Nazi beliefs before he converted to Islam, police and the FBI said. A fourth roommate, a member of the Florida National Guard, was arrested on charges related to the alleged discovery of bomb-making materials.

Bowie State University student Richard Collins III – who had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army before being stabbed to death Saturday – was honored Tuesday at the commencement ceremony where he would have walked across the stage.

A Blue Angel pilot who died in a crash before a Tennessee air show is being honored in his native Colorado.

Former CIA Director John Brennan told Congress Tuesday he warned Russia last summer against interfering in the U.S. presidential election and was so concerned about Russian contacts with people involved in the Trump campaign that he convened top counterintelligence officials to focus on it.

The move would give the administration far more leeway to make good on its promise to crack down on "sanctuary cities" - although it would surely meet resistance from some local law enforcement agencies that do not want their officers used to enforce immigration law.

A noted Air Force command chief master sergeant who was removed from duty in November now faces two new charges for “indecent recording,” the service announced Monday.

A proposal to restrict property tax exemptions for wind farms near military bases got preliminary approval from Texas House lawmakers on Monday.

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With President Donald Trump targeting federal employees' retirement programs and House Republicans taking aim at their compensation generally, Uncle Sam's goal of being a model employer looks shaky.

The FBI is investigating the fatal stabbing of a black U.S. Army lieutenant visiting the University of Maryland as a possible hate crime after a white student with ties to a Facebook group that posts disparaging material about African-Americans was arrested in his death, authorities say.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly granted a six-month extension Monday to 58,000 Haitian immigrants who have been spared from deportation since a devastating 2010 earthquake, saying the conditions in their struggling homeland are not stable enough to force them to return.

The Air Force is blaming Boeing mechanics for accidental contamination of the oxygen system aboard one of the modified Boeing 747 planes known as Air Force One used for presidential travel.

A former Customs and Border Protection officer who took bribes of money and sex to allow unauthorized immigrants into the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.

Federal authorities say a Southern California man who worked as an engineer for a defense contractor has pleaded guilty to attempting to sell sensitive information used in military and commercial satellites to the Russians.

Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn appears to have lied to federal investigators last year about who paid for his 2015 trip to Moscow, during a Defense Department inquiry into the renewal of his top secret security clearance, a leading Capitol Hill Democrat said Monday.

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination on Monday and declined to hand over documents sought under subpoena by a Senate panel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Members of the military being deployed or moved to a different base can get out of service contracts without penalty in Nevada under a law receiving final approval in the state capital.

A Mississippi lawmaker is saying Louisiana leaders should be "lynched" for removing Confederate monuments.

Homeland Security says nearly 740,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the country during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas.

Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest what it called "aggressive and unprofessional actions" by American security personnel against Turkish bodyguards in Washington during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit last week.

NASA has ordered up urgent spacewalking repairs at the International Space Station.

The USS Frank E. Evans was participating in a nighttime training exercise in the South China Sea when it turned into the path of an Australian aircraft carrier and was split in half.

Just days before Joshua Stiles fatally shot his wife and took his own life, the 30-year-old Army veteran from Alabama sought mental health treatment, only to be turned away.

President Donald Trump has vowed to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall to keep criminals from entering the U.S. and to stop illegal immigration and drug smuggling. His original budget request included a down payment to begin construction of the wall and money for 20 lawyers to fight border property owners who oppose giving up their land.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said he’ll talk to former FBI Director James Comey on Monday and is pursuing any records of President Donald Trump’s meetings with Comey, who was fired by the president.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued two kayakers who were near an island off the coast of southern Alaska and became separated as the weather deteriorated.

Authorities in North Carolina say an airman at an Air Force base is charged with abusing his 1-month-old daughter, who is hospitalized with multiple injuries.

U.S. Rep. Al Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Of the 11,500 veterans and family members buried in Philadelphia National, many were African American soldiers, for the most part interred in segregated sections of the cemetery. At least 350 were U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) who fought in the Civil War and trained at Camp William Penn in Cheltenham, the first such facility for black enlistees in the Union Army.

Former Vice President Joe Biden gave assurances Sunday that the country's current divisiveness brought on by a presidential election that "churned up some of the ugliest realities" of society will be temporary.

In a span of just under 42 minutes, “Tidewater” whisks viewers from piers to mess halls to ships at sea, with side trips through city streets swamped by tidal flooding.

Six cavalry scouts from Fort Bliss’ 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment can say they are the best in the entire Army.

A co-founder of Twitter says he's sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested.

The remains of a Michigan sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor have been buried with military honors in the family's cemetery plot in Port Huron.

Vice President Mike Pence vowed the Trump administration would “rebuild the military” and seek the biggest increases in defense spending since the Reagan era.

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base has turned its massive MaxPower microwave defense system over to the Army for new rounds of research and development.

Police say a Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed at the University of Maryland campus in what appears to be a random attack.

Masses of protesters with white shirts, homemade gas masks and flags draped around their shoulders shut down a main road in the Venezuelan capital on Saturday in a continuation of near-daily street protests.

An appeals court on Friday struck down a Federal Aviation Administration rule that required owners of drones used for recreation to register their craft.

The turtle connected veteran Jason Spray to his Army friend, Jason Benchimol, who died of a heroin overdose a few months ago. The turtle's name – Ranger Tan – refers to Benchimol’s status as an Army Ranger and the distinctive tan beret Rangers wear.

When Donald Trump visited Montana last year, technology entrepreneur Greg Gianforte was running on the GOP ticket for governor and made it a point to avoid his party's likely presidential nominee, but later he reluctantly pledged support for Trump. Now, he's trying to win an open seat in Congress and has gone all in on Trump.

No Navy surface ship throws a harder punch than the Bunker Hill, a cruiser armed with a high-tech battery of missile tubes and advanced sensors that probe for faraway targets to destroy. The Bunker Hill is slated to deploy this autumn alongside the Roosevelt, and then its lifespan wanes. The Navy plans to decommission the Ticonderoga-class cruiser in 2019, mothballing it after 33 years of service.

Moments before 18 women were about to walk across Inouye Field at Fort Benning to become brand new privates and specialists, a female drill sergeant offered clarity. “This is a big deal,” she said to the younger women Friday morning on the grounds of the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center. “You are making f---ing history.”

During a World War II veteran’s funeral visitation, someone broke into his widow's home. Now, the family can’t find Thornton Opperman’s Purple Heart.

Two months out from their home port of Pearl Harbor, the crew of the destroyer USS O'Kane has a top priority as they visit Juneau for five days. "It's food," said Cmdr. Colby Sherwood, Commanding Officer of the O'Kane. "Food and booze," clarified Rhiannon Ladwig, a sailor sitting in the O'Kane's mess on Monday.

An enclave of former summer bungalows, where Nazi sympathizers once proudly marched near streets named for Adolf Hitler and other Third Reich figures, is being forced to end policies that limited ownership to people of German descent.

The handsome young president told the midshipmen to stand at ease — none of them did. "Perhaps the plebes will. Did you explain that to them?" President John F. Kennedy joked to the Naval Academy leadership. "That comes later in the course."

The U.S. Navy will be searching for World War II-era explosives on the ocean floor near an Alaska island in June.

Jefferson Taylor, a 21-year-old Army reservist stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, reportedly ran from the scene of a deadly crash that took the life of a fellow soldier outside of Lakewood, Wash.

In a rare move, retired Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge said he wrongly let the undue political and military influences wrongly color his decision-making in a San Diego-based Navy SEAL’s sex-crimes conviction.

Analysis

The budget proposal President Donald Trump plans to unveil Tuesday would give to federal employees with one hand, while taking away with five others.

After their public disagreement stalled a congressional hearing last month, 35 veterans groups came together Thursday in Washington to reach some consensus on changes to the Post-9/11 GI Bill and restart their activity on Capitol Hill.

Richard Rojas, a Navy veteran charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to "kill them all" and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday.

The Army announced Friday that a new commander will take the reins this summer in the fight against Islamic State, as the fall of Mosul in Iraq looms and focus increases on Raqqa in Syria.

When Katie Luff asked what kind of birthday party her son wanted, he said a party with a military theme. All veterans. Army. Navy. Air Force. Marines. If you served, Aiden wanted you invited.

The Navy has explained how it spilled 94,000 gallons of jet fuel around Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach: Officials say a switch was left in the wrong position overnight.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told Congress Friday he stands by the memo he wrote bluntly criticizing FBI Director James Comey. But he made clear it was not his intention for President Donald Trump and other White House officials to use the document to justify firing Comey, which is what they have done.

Abu Zubaydah, the first person subjected to CIA waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11 attacks, will not be testifying Friday at the war court, attorneys said late Thursday.