Named for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the ship is the seventh of the John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers and will be operated by Military Sealift Command.

The exercise integrates joint and coalition forces into a realistic threat environment across roughly 120,000 square miles of airspace in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex.

U.S. forces intercepted multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones launched Friday towards Kuwait, Bahrain and the Strait of Hormuz, and subsequently struck radar sites in Iran, according to U.S. Central Command.

A Catawba County man and woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of malicious starvation and possession of a firearm by a felon.

In February, the airmen departed St. Paul, Minn., in support of Operation New Normal and other counterterrorism operations in Africa.

The recent contract is a follow-on to the Integration and Production Support contract that was awarded to Raytheon in June 2025.

The secretary of defense would have five days to explain to Congress why a senior military officer was removed from their position under the provision.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday on the closed-down Birmingham-Southern College’s 192-acre campus.

Currently under construction, the 83,000-square-foot museum will feature more than 5,000 images and 600 artifacts in exhibits documenting the branch’s 235 years of maritime history.

People who are HIV positive but are otherwise qualified to join the military can once again do so while a legal challenge to the Pentagon’s restrictions on military service moves forward.