Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin and Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human explorations and operations, said after a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station that their agencies plan to collaborate on developing a moon-orbiting outpost.

The roughly 5,800 active-duty troops sent to locations along the U.S.-Mexico border will spend Thanksgiving in Texas, Arizona, and California, but they are expected to return home in time for Christmas, Pentagon officials said Monday.

President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his assertion that the United States should have caught Osama bin Laden more quickly, claiming in a tweet that he had warned of the al-Qaida leader in his book before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Country singer Kellie Pickler proved on “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars” that she has many talents, but U.S. military aerial assault techniques aren’t among them.

Military veterans lobbying for an end to federal classification of marijuana as a lethal substance with no redeeming medicinal value may be closer to that goal than ever before, given the midterm election results.

NASA is considering selling seats on the spacecraft that will ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station, offering rides to the public while opening another line of revenue as the agency attempts to broaden its appeal.

Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Orlando Moreno on Monday identified the pilot as Cowden Ward Jr., 73, of Burnet and his passenger as Vincent Losada, 93, of San Antonio.

James Gerrow, lawyer for Katelyn McClure, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that her former boyfriend was “calling the shots” in the suspected scheme that resulted in criminal charges last week against the two as well as homeless former Marine Johnny Bobbitt.

Overdue medical and dental exams were the primary reasons for failure to meet what the Army refers to as medical readiness in 2016.

Before last week’s announcement, researchers had determined there was only “limited” or “suggestive” evidence hypertension could be caused by chemical herbicides used in Vietnam.

The Pentagon said Monday that remains accounted for in September are those of Army Pfc. John Martin, of Saratoga, N.Y., who was reported missing in action in 1950 after his unit was attacked by Chinese forces.

The complaint filed Monday argues that the appointment of Matthew Whitaker violates the Constitution because he has not been confirmed by the Senate and asks a judge to prevent Whitaker from serving as head of the Justice Department.

The installation of movable, wire-topped barriers threatens to complicate life for Mexicans using San Ysidro, where about 110,000 people enter the U.S. every day in 40,000 vehicles. Long lines backed up in Tijuana, where many people have to cross the border to work on the U.S. side.

Brad Weldon is among a small group of fire survivors who have defied orders to leave and decided to stick it out in the blackened and smoldering landscape.

Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for more than a week after the fire sparked in Butte County, Sheriff Kory Honea announced Saturday night.

Florida counties had until noon to file official results with the state following a weeklong machine-and-hand recount that had triggered allegations of fraud and several lawsuits. State officials will post the official results on Tuesday.

People who think the Navy may have gone soft on new recruits can see the tough training that goes on at a modern boot camp via a new documentary.

Chelsey Poisson's hypothesis was that between pre- and postdeployment, servicemembers whose trash was burned in open pits experienced a significant decrease in fitness and increase in medical symptoms lasting more than a month. Her results, she said, confirmed her hypothesis.

Incoming Democrats with significant national security experience plan to challenge President Donald Trump over orders he has issued as commander in chief, starting with his controversial military deployment to the southern border to face down migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

Chemicals associated with firefighting foam once used at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis have been detected in groundwater on and near the military installation, prompting requests by state officials for more tests and a study to determine the extent of the toxic plume.

President Donald Trump isn't committing to a previous pledge to keep chief of staff John Kelly for the remainder of his term, part of widespread speculation about staffing changes that could soon sweep through his administration.

With Navy veteran Gil Cisneros' victory, Democrats will constitute the entirety of Orange County's seven-member congressional delegation, the first time since the 1930s the Republican Party will have no GOP representative in the House.

Financial struggles following a divorce left Army Ranger Jason Cormier without a home and some uncertainty about if he would be able to finish college.

A total of 530 veterans received a wide range of services -- from medical and dental care, to clothing and food, to haircuts and counseling -- during the seventh annual Santa Barbara County Veterans Stand Down.

In an interview that aired Sunday, President Donald Trump made clear that the audio recording, supplied by the Turkish government, would not change his decision on how to respond to the Oct. 2 killing, which U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Part of the reason West Chester Twp. veteran Jerry Nelson was chosen as one of Butler County's two Veterans of the Year was his work with Lakota students on several programs the American Legion provides, some of which include college scholarships.

The Honorable Josiah W. Deane of Aspen, Colorado, alighted in St. Joseph three months after the armistice of World War I with highways on his mind.

The town of York has a deep commitment to its veterans, with schools holding Veterans Day events, the start of a new tradition of a veterans' breakfast, the well-attended Memorial Day parade and ceremony with a laying of wreaths on the town's war monuments, and more.

Though it may be 44 years after the fact, a festive tribute to honor the service of military veterans who served in the Vietnam War and during the Vietnam era is being planned to honor those veterans.

A Utah mayor killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan is being remembered at a public funeral as a man of commitment, confidence, conviction and compassion.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants’ arrival an “avalanche” that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims.

The increasing loss of life and property brought about by the Camp and Woolsey wildfires in California has been followed by questions regarding what ignited those catastrophes. Investigators were trying to find the answers even before they were asked.

resident Donald Trump expressed regret in an interview to be aired this weekend for not marking Veterans Day with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

The first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham, Ala., sees himself as part of a new wave of officers and court officials tasked with enforcing laws and rebuilding community trust fractured by police shootings, mass incarceration, and uneven enforcement that critics call racist.

Julian Assange, who has taken cover in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted asylum, has speculated publicly for years that the Justice Department had brought secret criminal charges against him for revealing highly sensitive government information on his website.

Before he was the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis was a student at Chief Joseph Middle School in Richland, Wash. He paid tribute to those roots on Friday by touring his alma mater and inspiring students.

Todd Mehrhoff faces a maximum four years in prison on charges of obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Democrat Stacey Abrams ended 10 days of postelection drama in Georgia’s closely watched and even more closely contested race Friday evening when she acknowledged that when the state’s final vote gets certified, Republican Brian Kemp will be the next governor.

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Oomar Olivas, a sergeant in the Colorado Army National Guard , accidentally left his garage door open Sunday night after celebrating Veterans Day with family and friends. When he awoke the next morning a "go-bag" containing his military uniform, some warm clothes and a journal detailing his experiences while deployed in Afghanistan was gone.

From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, President Donald Trump said Saturday he had to come to the heart of California's killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape.

Quincy police are searching for the owner of a sapphire ring with an inscription for the Army Chemical Corps that was turned into the department's lost-and-found office.

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said Saturday that it's problematic that American tech companies don't want to work with the Pentagon but are willing to engage with the Chinese.

The sharply contrasting outcomes that resulted on Election Day in Pennsylvania and North Carolina illustrate the importance of how political lines are drawn — and the stakes for the nation because that process helps determine which party controls Congress.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he could “perform a wonderful service” by rounding up Republican votes for Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s candidacy for speaker of the House.

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Jack Schwartz of Hanford was still working at age 102. The community-minded veteran's last civic service was serving on his city's parks and recreation commission into last year. He was living independently until he was admitted to the hospital two days before he died.

The night started with drinking and watching movies at a friend's off-base townhouse. It ended, after a brief manhunt, when the unarmed Navy Seaman Robert "Colton" Wright was fatally shot inside the F/A-18 E Super Hornet hangar where he worked, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report on his death.

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Pvt. Tanner Frederick claims a noncommissioned officer slammed his head into the ground several times, causing him a traumatic brain injury.

Thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs health benefits have been given a green light to sue the military, under a ruling by a federal judge in Connecticut.

When 21-year-old Christopher Precopia met with a recruiter to enlist in the U.S. Army in October, he was rejected because of the violent offense for which he'd been charged last year. Except there was one problem: Precopia didn't do it.

As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won't find are armed American servicemembers standing guard.

House Resolution 2315 would posthumously award each of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive.

President Donald Trump said Friday he had "very easily" answered written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller, though he speculated that the questions had been "tricked up" to try to catch him in a lie.

federal judge Friday eased release terms for would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr., saying he has suffered no relapses since leaving a government psychiatric hospital in 2016, 35 years after he shot President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington hotel.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, though a lawsuit over the credentials' revocation is continuing.

Military representatives from Germany and Italy joined U.S. Army officials Thursday at Fort Riley’s Post Cemetery. German Army Col. Carsten Döding said the annual ceremony serves as an important historical reminder for all military service members.

Bright orange sparks bounced off the pavement as a U.S. Army soldier welded metal bars to the border fence in downtown Nogales Thursday morning.

The number of people unaccounted for grew from 631 on Thursday night to more than 1,000 on Friday, but Sheriff Kory Honea said the list was dynamic and could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings of names.

All that’s needed to name the West Richland, Wash. post office after fallen Marine Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman is President Trump’s signature.

The DOD also has $343 million worth of projects under construction on post. Current and upcoming projects include a huge entertainment complex anchored by a Movie Tavern; a new Express store and a mini mall.

Rami Asad-Ghanem was convicted Thursday and faces 25 years to life in prison. Ghanem, who's a naturalized U.S. citizen, conspired to transfer missiles to customers around the world.

U.S. officials say the theft took a year to pull off and involved commercial spies, a Chinese-backed company, a Taiwanese chipmaker and employees affiliated with Micron Technology, a U.S.-based microchip behemoth.

Over four decades, as they have built new lives, Jonestown massacre survivors have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism.

President Donald Trump on Friday recognized a major Republican Party donor and six other "extraordinary Americans" with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the nation reserves for a civilian.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that includes a provision authorizing a land exchange in Alaska between the federal government and a private owner.

More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for after a deadly Northern California wildfire, but authorities warned Friday that the roster is fluid and contains "raw data," including the names of people who are safe.

President Donald Trump has signed legislation that elevates the importance of cybersecurity work within the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. senators from three New England states recently wrote a letter urging Secretary of the Army Mark Esper to establish a monument honoring the 129 men who perished aboard the submarine.

For more than two and a half years, federal officials had been missing from all the public meetings and press conferences held since Newburgh, N.Y. closed its primary water supply due to PFOS contamination, and the state identified Stewart Air National Guard Base as the source of the toxic chemical.

On Thursday, firefighters reported progress in battling the nearly 220-square-mile blaze that displaced 52,000 people and destroyed more than 9,500 homes. It was 40 percent contained, fire officials said

The Australian-based developer, Landlease, built the hotel as part of Privatization of Army Lodging, or PAL, program for the Department of Defense, Landlease spokeswoman Lacey Jamison said.

A Sept. 11 trial prosecutor on Thursday read aloud ghastly descriptions of what the CIA did to its prisoners: An alleged plot mastermind was taken nude from interrogation to a medical officer, who put fluids up his rectum then returned him nude to interrogation.

Hundreds of Iowa National Guard soldiers have been told they were overpaid after a year-long deployment to the Middle East and that they must make plans to repay the money.

In brief remarks during a daylong White House conference, Donal Trump took credit for several ongoing programs and accomplishments that serve the military and veterans.

The grueling Special Forces Assessment and Selection is one of the first steps for a soldier seeking to earn the coveted Green Beret. It was not open to women until 2016.

Members of a migrant caravan started to meet some local resistance as they continued to arrive by the hundreds in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where a group of residents clashed with migrants camped out by the U.S. border fence.

Lawyers for Maria Butina, 29, argued that a law that bars acting in the United States as an unregistered agent of a foreign government — one of two counts against Butina — is unconstitutionally vague.

The cost to create President Donald Trump's space force could be lower than $5 billion and certainly will be in the single-digit billions, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said at a briefing Thursday, pushing back against Air Force estimates that put the price tag at $13 billion or more.

With at least 130 people still missing, National Guard troops searched Wednesday through charred debris for more victims of California's deadliest wildfire as top federal and state officials toured the ruins of a community completely destroyed by the flames.

Visitors in Brunswick this holiday season will find the town bustling like it hasn’t in years, hearkening back more than a decade ago to when Brunswick Naval Air Station was at its peak.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Navy officials want to add as much as 967 square miles of federal land and more than 100 square miles of private land to the Fallon Range Training Complex

The approved legislation authorizes the entry into Uruguay of three U.S. fuel cargo aircraft, two transport aircraft and three AWACS planes as well as 400 U.S. military personnel and civilians who would be the crew and provide support and maintenance.

An Air Force plane made an emergency landing at McClellan Airfield Wednesday afternoon, leaving one servicemember hospitalized with what a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman called a “very minor injury.”

A National Guard member arrested on a sexual assault charge while serving on the U.S.-Mexico border lost his job as a county jailer last year after being arrested for drunken driving.

President Donald Trump will visit California on Saturday to meet with residents affected by the wildfires that have devastated the state, the White House announced Thursday.

Sea-Tac International Airport and Alaska Airlines are reviewing security procedures in the wake of an incident last August in which a ground crew member started a commercial plane, took off and later crashed in what appears to have been a suicide.

The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told senators Thursday that employees' morale has suffered because of the bitter political climate, and he apologized for sending a tweet in 2015 that suggested renaming the Democratic Party as the "NeoKlanist" party.

One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country Thursday, causing deadly traffic crashes and closing schools as it dropped snow as far south as central Alabama.

A 15-year civilian employee at Naval Base Coronado is suing the U.S. Navy, claiming her supervisors tolerated long-running sexual-harassment and then demoted her instead of the alleged harasser.

Michael Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as a critic of President Donald Trump and the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested Wednesday and booked on a felony domestic violence charge, Los Angeles police said.

A top U.S. health official is pledging to try to ban menthol from regular cigarettes, outlaw flavors in all cigars and tighten rules regarding the sale of most flavored versions of e-cigarettes.

A National Guardsman tried to rape a female colleague at a West Texas motel this week, authorities say.

A bipartisan commission created to evaluate the 2018 National Defense Strategy found that the United States has lost its military edge to "a dangerous degree."

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Hundreds of soldiers saluted the flag-covered casket of a Utah mayor who was killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan and whose remains were returned to his home state Wednesday.