A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina. The bronze sculpture of Graham, an adviser to presidents and known as “America’s Pastor,” replaces one of an early 20th century governor. Graham died in 2018 at age 99.

A family member of the Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine’s deadliest shooting said she and her husband told a deputy a month before the mass shooting that her brother-in-law still had access to weapons, despite his deteriorating mental health.

Navy leaders on Thursday said they are pushing for more access to high schools as the service faces another recruiting shortfall this year and recruiters across the military complain of limited admission to campuses.

Scorching temperatures set numerous records across South Florida on Wednesday, and historically hot conditions for mid-May will persist through the weekend.

The last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc’s most controversial figures. The sheer violence of five shots targeted at Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico merely for doing his job had a whole continent worried ahead of the June 6-9 polls.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday granted a full pardon to former Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted last year of killing an Air Force veteran during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.

President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College’s commencement. Last month’s announcement of the speech ignited calls for the university, a center of Black politics and culture, to cancel the event.

Dozens of measures to improve health care, job training and homeless programs offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs were introduced Thursday as a single legislative package that some lawmakers predicted will advance quickly through Congress.

A study of interactions between military doctors and patients of various ranks confirms that people with higher status get resources at other people’s expense.

Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest. The move on Thursday comes less than a week after the school’s president said public safety was at risk.

The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday scrapped a planned trip to Spain in order to stay in his capital and address Russia’s expanding front-line assault, his spokesman said, a measure of the rapidly increasing anxieties over the Kremlin’s military advances in recent days.

Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a northeastern Ukrainian town have halted the Russian advance. Even so, a senior Moscow official said Russia’s recent frontline push has enough resources to keep going.

Thousands fewer active-duty service members experienced sexual assaults or sexual harassment last year than in 2021, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday.

Thomas A. Smith of Grant, Mich., who was 17 when he went missing on Aug. 2, 1950, during a battle in Chinju at the southern end of the Korean peninsula, has been accounted for.

Russia has declared Britain’s defense attaché persona non grata and gave the diplomat a week to leave the country in response to London expelling the Russian defense attaché earlier this month over spying allegations.

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III will deliver the keynote speech during the 2024 U.S. Naval Academy graduation and commissioning ceremony, the academy announced Wednesday.

A broken pipeline that exports about two-thirds of South Sudan’s crude production could heighten the risk of renewed fighting in the world’s newest nation if not repaired urgently, according to the International Crisis Group.