President Donald Trump's lofty vision of big tanks, vintage aircraft and modern fighter jets swooping through the streets of Washington in a show of patriotic force crumbled Friday under the weight of logistics

The driver was stopped Friday morning along a main entry road to the airport. Officers searched the vehicle and found two firearms and what initially appeared to be several hand grenades. The driver said he was a World War II enthusiast and the grenades were inert and filled with silicone.

The judge in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's fraud trial refused Friday to release the names of jurors, saying he has received threats and fears for their safety as well.

Lockheed Martin gave a first look at what human space habitats might look like Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center, where the aerospace giant is under contract with NASA to build a prototype of the living quarters.

The Buenos Aires stop on Mattis’ first trip to South America, after Brazil and before Chile and Colombia, was seen as a significant step in rebuilding a military partnership that had all but disappeared in preceding years.

An Iraq war veteran, Esteban Santiago is diagnosed as schizophrenic but was found competent to understand legal proceedings.

The Cessna 172, a small single-engine, fixed-wing plane, was carrying two people when it went down, one of which was a contracted instructor pilot, the academy said. Neither person was injured.

President Donald Trump's decision to remove former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance has drawn sharp criticism as an extraordinary act of retribution. But what is the practical impact? And what can Brennan do about it?

One day after President Donald Trump stripped former CIA director John Brennan of his security clearance, the commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden said it would be an honor if the president would take away his own clearance next.

President Donald Trump said Friday he had canceled plans for a Veterans Day military parade, citing the "ridiculously high" price tag — a day after U.S. officials said the November event could cost $92 million, more than three times the price first suggested by the White House.

Veterans and lawmakers from Wyoming have voiced their objections to a Pentagon plan to return church bells seized by U.S. troops more than a century ago after a battle during the Philippine-American war.

More female veterans are running for Congress in this year's midterm elections. Almost all Democrats and many of them mothers, they are shaped by the Sept. 11 attacks and overseas wars. Many are retiring from the military and looking for another way to serve the country.

VoteVets, a liberal advocacy group, filed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at preventing three wealthy members of President Donald Trump’s private club in Florida from influencing decisions at Veterans Affairs. The suit is a response to a news report that revealed the three were exerting major influence over the VA and secretly shaping Trump’s veterans policies.

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Former VA Secretary Anthony Principi says he “found it astounding” that three wealthy friends of President Donald Trump, members of his Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., were able to affect executive hiring at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and might have influenced VA policy.

Former U.S. security officials issued scathing rebukes to President Donald Trump on Thursday, admonishing him for yanking a top former spy chief's security clearance in what they cast as an act of political vengeance.

A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that the military and the White House "have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019."

The speed at which the Army Futures Command headquarters plans to set up shop in downtown Austin should reflect the passion behind the project, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley said Friday. He expects the Army to begin moving into new offices within weeks.

Omar Abdulsattar Ameen, 45, was arrested in California on Wednesday and will be extradited to Iraq under a treaty with that nation. He left Iraq and fled in 2012 to Turkey, where he applied to be accepted as a refugee to the U.S., according to court documents.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that his senior military assistant, Navy Vice Adm. Craig Faller, will be nominated to serve as the next head of U.S. Southern Command. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd.

The Russian military says that two nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown to the easternmost Chukotka Peninsula, near Alaska, as part of an air force exercise.

Redding firefighter Jeremy Stoke died while helping people evacuate a Northern California blaze. He was killed by a fire tornado that at one point reached a temperature of 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report released Wednesday detailing his death and the death of a bulldozer operator.

The Navy, Air Force and Army all collect different information when they investigate why an aircraft crashes or has a problem, making it difficult for the Defense Department to compare trends as it works to improve safety.

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.

The body of Abdul-ghani found Aug. 6 in an underground tunnel was so severely decomposed that the investigators could not determine how the severely disabled boy reported missing in December had died.

Motorists across the state have been confounded this summer by problems with SunPass, which allows motorists to be charged electronically for using toll roads. Millions of toll transactions got delayed as a result of a billing system upgrade. When the transactions finally began to show up, some customers incurred bank overdraft fees as a result.

The U.S. military has made its mark on the fashion world many times — consider the leather bomber jacket, khaki pants or the wool peacoat — but few soldiers likely would have pegged the infamous “glow” belt to crossover into world of civilian style.

A Georgia woman who mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization faces the "longest sentence" ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing.

Omar Abdulsattar Ameen was arrested by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force at a Sacramento apartment building based on a warrant issued in May by an Iraqi federal court in Baghdad.

President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, who served in the Obama administration. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says other former intelligence officials' security clearances are also "currently under review."

Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii pushed back against President Donald Trump's attacks on "fake news" Thursday with a coordinated series of editorials speaking up for a free and vigorous press.

Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash and later to maintain his luxurious lifestyle when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors. Attorneys for Manafort argued against his guilt by saying he left the particulars of his finances to other people.

Researchers are hoping the discovery of the USS Abner Read brings some awareness about the Aleutian Islands campaign to the American public. For families of the sailors who died, they want the finding to offer some solace.

Top computer researchers gave a startling presentation recently about how to intercept and switch votes on emailed ballots, but officials in the 30 or so states said the ease with which votes could be changed wouldn’t alter their plans to continue offering electronic voting in some fashion.

Several retired Naval officers who served at the detention center say Ron DeSantis’ role was to advocate for the fair and humane treatment of detainees to ensure the U.S. military complied with the law.

For much of the last century, Smokey Bear was the pitchman for the federal government's aggressive wildfire suppression policy. That tactic, some scientists believe, may have contributed along with climate change to making American forests vulnerable long-term to combustion. They call it "the Smokey Bear effect."

All the students wore lanyards with IDs around their necks as they walked past a heavy police presence. Volunteers greeted them with German shepherds, and a helicopter hovered overhead as a throng of media watched from across the street.

The island's electric utility announced Tuesday that crews working in the southern city of Ponce reconnected the last neighborhood that had been offline since the Sept. 20 storm knocked out the U.S. territory's power grid.

Immigration officials have three weeks to decide whether to approve the citizenship application of a South Korean-born U.S. Army specialist who is suing after the military discharged her, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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Paul Manafort's defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses in the former Trump campaign chairman's tax evasion and bank fraud trial. Manafort himself chose not to testify. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman declared Tuesday that she "will not be silenced" by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss appeared set to shift from a war of words to a possible legal battle.

Undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey and U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, joined Fort Hood officials Tuesday in announcing a program, which is similar to tuition assistance, that allows access to technical trades.

President Donald Trump has objected to a series of provisions in the newly passed 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, including limits on the reduction of troops in South Korea and recognizing Crimea as a Russian province.

“The mettle of our scientists and the capabilities of our labs will be challenged, but in the months and years ahead, they will make identifications from these remains and give families long-sought answers,” said Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Director Kelly McKeague.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transportation Security Administration had been testing body scanners for about a year. The machines can detect suspicious items from 30 feet away and have the capability of scanning more than 2,000 passengers per hour.

Warrior Retreat at Bull Run is a sprawling 11,000-square-foot house on 37 acres in Haymarket, Virginia, which gives wounded soldiers a place to escape the sometimes brutal recovery process. The retreat automatically comes with a benefit that many soldiers have never before experienced: a seated, multi-course meal prepared by a chef in a state-of-the-art kitchen.

Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted in what Texas prosecutors described as the honor killings of his daughter's American husband and her friend who was an Iranian women's rights activist.

Utah firefighter Matthew Burchett volunteered to head to California along with 37 other firefighters from the state to help battle blazes that have been ravaging homes in the coastal state. He died Monday night while fighting the Mendocino Complex fire north of San Francisco.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday cast Venezuela’s ongoing wave of 1 million refugees fleeing across its borders so far as a destabilizing, anti-democratic force in South America, but he stopped short of offering military assistance to what he defined as a regional crisis.

SpaceX intends to send NASA astronauts into space, a significant point in the future of the company founded by Musk in 2002 with the goal of making space accessible to large numbers of people, and eventually colonizing Mars.

Dozens were trapped in their homes Tuesday by fast-rising water from flash floods caused by heavy pre-dawn downpours that drenched New York state's Finger Lakes region, inundating roads and sweeping tons of trees, debris and a camper with a woman trapped inside into one of the lakes.

The Army is changing its 40-year-old enlisted education system with a new curriculum and an online course offering graded decisions that carry over to all academies for noncommissioned officers.

Speaking to military students at Brazil's senior war college in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis encouraged them to remember and follow their nation's long tradition of working with the U.S. military, including as allies in World War II.

A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana's Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park following a two-week closure at the height of the summer season.

Family and friends worked to set up the #BeMoreLikeClaire fund to carry on Claire VanLandingham's legacy of helping others.

Three factors most strongly predicted the risk of suicide: the severity of the traumatic brain injury (TBI), a first incidence occurring in young adulthood and discharge from a hospital for a TBI in the previous six months.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in August of 2012. His family believes he is still alive, held by forces in a country notoriously hostile to foreign journalists.

The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.

The bill will fund the first-ever study on the health effects faced by people exposed to toxic chemicals used on military bases known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

Comcast announced Monday that its Internet Essentials program, which provides $10-a-month high-speed internet access to low-income families and individuals, will now expand eligibility to all qualifying veterans living in its service area.

While the Pentagon began addressing sexual assault in the ranks a decade ago, an Associated Press investigation revealed that similar reports involving military kids got lost in a dead zone of justice.

Planning will begin this month for the mid-life overhaul of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, a top-to-bottom refurbishment that will take place at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News shipyard.

The trial of the longtime Washington operator now turns to Manafort's defense team, which has so far blamed any wrongdoing on Rick Gates, the former Manafort protege who testified he and his former boss committed crimes together for years.

The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industrywide review of how to thwart such insider security threats, though it remains unclear what steps airlines might take.

Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in New Orleans that NASA's responsibilities involve science, space exploration and technology development. As for defense and national security, he told reporters in New Orleans: "We want to be an agency that maintains its independence from those capabilities."

The policy bill authorizes a wave of significant military increases, including servicemembers’ biggest pay boost in nearly a decade, higher troop levels and new equipment and weapons for the upcoming fiscal year.

The Pentagon has a new goal aimed at protecting its $100 billion supply chain from foreign theft and sabotage: To base its weapons contract awards on security assessments — not just cost and performance — a move that would mark a fundamental shift in department culture.

Aretha Franklin is gravely ill, according to several reports. The "Queen of Soul" last year announced she planned to retire from touring, and in March she had to cancel shows on doctor's orders.

A commander at Minot Air Force Base says the 22-year-old man killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend was a senior airman.

Family described Richard Russell, the man who stole a plane from Seattle's airport and plunged it into an island, as a “warm, compassionate guy.” There appears to be no manifesto or digital trail of warning signs from him.

Fifteen airports throughout the country will employ the new technology. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was the first facility to receive the advanced screening innovation, in 2017, followed by Boston Logan and New York's JFK.

Authorities quickly concluded that the fire was an act of arson. Flames spread so rapidly and intensely — fed by a substantial accelerant — that fire crews were forced to initially retreat, unable to save a handful of cabins near where it ignited.

President Donald Trump's campaign is already looking to profit off of the announcement of the proposed Space Force as it asked supporters to vote for their favorite of six logos in a mass email.

Residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

For nearly 70 years, Dominic Ragucci believed his brother Emil's body had been swept out to sea during a World War II battle on a Pacific atoll. But on Monday, Dominic, 86, and his brother Victor, 91, stood on a tarmac in Philadelphia to greet Emil's remains as he finally made it home.

An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund would be the main source of money for Tesla CEO Elon Musk's grand plan to take the company private, but the deal isn't done yet, Musk disclosed in a blog on Monday.

The World War I memorial atop the highest peak in Massachusetts has earned national recognition.

Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman released another audio recording Monday that she says features President Donald Trump, as she threatened to "blow the whistle" on White House corruption.

UES Inc has been awarded a $49,057,000 contract for research and development in the “flash and laser airborne protection system” (FLAPS) program, the Department of Defense said in an announcement Friday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday he is satisfied that creating a Space Force as a separate military service is the right way to reorganize the Pentagon's approach to space.

Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its mysteries by getting closer than any object sent before.

President Donald Trump attacked the FBI in a pair of tweets Saturday for not turning over text messages written by Andrew McCabe, the agency's former deputy director, to a conservative advocacy group.

A federal judge sentenced a 35-year-old Texas doctor to a year and a day in federal prison for threatening to kill her former husband, a Fort Bragg soldier, through anonymous text messages.

In 2015, 15 veterans in Rhode Island committed suicide, four more than the previous year, according to the latest federal data. It was the plight of veterans that helped persuade the General Assembly, in 2016, to approve posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana use, says Joanne Leppanen, director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, which for a decade now has promoted the medicinal value of pot.

President Donald Trump is backing calls for a Harley-Davidson boycott amid an ongoing steel tariff dispute.

At an event in the Adirondacks last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo recounted a treasured memory of the time his family retrieved an eagle feather from Saranac Lake and kept it after one of the beautiful birds swooped near his canoe. In telling the story , the New York Democrat was unknowingly confessing a crime.

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A year after a deadly gathering of far-right extremists in Charlottesville, a few dozen white nationalists marched Sunday across from the White House, their numbers dwarfed by thousands of counterprotesters.

Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday she secretly recorded conversations she had in the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security Situation Room. It was a highly unusual admission, which immediately drew fire from allies of the president.

"Basically, the last thing she said to me was, 'Please, just don't leave me. Please, don't leave me here. Please, don't let go,'" Kalen Lawson said from his bed. He told her he'd stay and make sure she'd be OK, but then he heard his friend and two others yelling at a vehicle as it approached the accident scene.

President Donald Trump acknowledged the grim anniversary of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly last year – and is regarded as one of the worst weeks in his presidency.

The Obama Foundation says it raised nearly $233 million in the first full year of fundraising after President Barack Obama left the White House.

Michael Soliman is a longtime aide and confidant to Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also a lobbyist for Qatar.

For years they were allowed to stay in the U.S., in part because of the unsettled nature of the countries to which they would otherwise be returned. But now, under the Trump Administration’s aggressive immigration policies, they’ve become prime targets for deportation.

The package had a handwritten message scrawled on the side: "NASA Atmospheric Research Instrument NOT A BOMB! If this lands near the President, we at NASA wish him a great round of golf."

The Army testing site in New Mexico welcomed Brig. Gen. Gregory Brady Friday during a ceremony that also honored Brig. Gen. Eric Sanchez, who is retiring from the job.

Charlottesville, Virginia, was marking the anniversary of last summer's white supremacist violence with marches, vigils and other community events that began unfolding peacefully Saturday amid a heavy police presence.

In an about-face, U.S. Rep. Chris Collins is ending his re-election bid days after the Republican was charged with insider trading. Collins released a statement Saturday morning saying his will suspend his campaign and finish the rest of his term.

A Venezuelan military officer who deserted his country’s army to seek asylum in the United States faces deportation next week, back to the government the U.S. claims is a dictatorship that must be punished.

Fire Information Officer Kale Casey almost can't believe what a metal bird 5 feet long, weighing 44 pounds with wings spanning 10 feet, can do to help fight a wildfire. "For eight hours a night, without getting tired, without needing a meal ... scanning the landscape, mapping, searching for hotspots... It's by far the most impressive tool I've seen in my wildfire career."