Bruce Coval Meneley, who retired in 2016 as a Navy captain having earned dozens of awards and commendations, died when he was shot multiple times by police at a DoubleTree hotel in a suburb south of Seattle.

A new rule that makes tens of thousands of veterans eligible for benefits previously denied because of less than honorable discharges does not go far enough in providing a clear path for accessing services, according to veterans’ advocacy groups.

Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, 22, was with a harbor security boat team conducting a familiarization exercise on the York River when he died after falling overboard at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said troops from several military vessels could face a hostile situation as they set up the pier off the coast of Gaza and assist with the delivery of aid.

J. Gary Cooper, the first Black officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat, died Saturday at age 87.

A Florida judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over a 2019 mass shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station that killed three US service members and wounded several others.

A dozen years ago, federal firearms regulators approved a pistol brace aimed at owners with physical disabilities — and Maxim Defense Industries jumped in. In January 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) changed course.

Mali’s army says Abu Huzeifa, a senior Islamic State group commander believed to have helped carry out an attack in 2017 on U.S. and Nigerien forces that resulted in the deaths of four Americans and four Nigerien troops, has been killed in an operation by Malian state forces.

The House select committee on U.S.-China competition, freshly under new leadership, is training its sights on a range of tech, defense, economic and foreign policy issues.

A coalition of Massachusetts lawmakers is calling for the Air Force to locate its new Information Dominance Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, about 21 miles from Boston.

Former President Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday for repeatedly violating a gag order, and the judge overseeing his ongoing criminal trial warned him that he could go to jail if he keeps breaking the court’s rules.

A U.S. Army officer assigned to Fort Liberty was convicted of five charges related to trafficking firearms overseas, according to the Justice Department.

An Army staff sergeant assigned to Baumholder who raped and sexually abused children while stationed in the United States and Germany was given a sentence of 36 years in prison.

Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters, streaming in through a window late Tuesday and arresting dozens of people. The protesters had seized the administration building, known as Hamilton Hall, more than 20 hours earlier in a major escalation as demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war spread on college campuses nationwide.

The Biden administration is considering banning imports of enriched Russian uranium using executive authority as congressional efforts to block the Kremlin’s shipments of the reactor fuel stall, people familiar with the matter said.

Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. But by 1957, Fogarty had joined the USS Nautilus crew — first as an engineering officer, and then during 1963-67 as the Nautilus’ fifth commanding officer.

The Massachusetts National Guard’s armory building in Lexington will be used to house up to 55 migrant families while the state looks for other more permanent places to keep them, Emergency Assistance Director and retired Air National Guard Lt. Gen. Scott Rice said.

In a case that could have significant implications for those who serve in the military, the Supreme Court will weigh a matter involving two veterans who argue they were improperly denied medical benefits for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to their service.

The United States on implored all countries supplying weapons to Sudan’s warring parties to halt arms sales, warning that history in the vast western Darfur region where there was a genocide 20 years ago “is repeating itself.”