A Navy review is shining a light on major shipbuilding delays, including at the Newport News shipyard, but defense experts point to larger systemic issues constraining the industrial base’s production capacity.
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial. A defense lawyer countered by assailing the case as baseless.
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts.
Global military spending reached a record high of $2.4 billion last year, driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tensions in other parts of the world, a Sweden-based think tank said Monday.
Mike Johnson has pushed through a $60 billion effort to bolster Ukraine’s arsenal, along with funding for Israel and the Indo-Pacific. The move marks a major victory and dramatic turnabout for the speaker, who is trying to gain control of a bitterly divided Republican conference.
An unknown future pathogen could have far more devastating consequences than SARS-CoV-2, which cost some 7 million lives and trillions of dollars in economic losses.
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting agency announced last week that the remains of six service members from World War II and the Korean War had been accounted for.
The Coast Guard found and rescued two stranded boaters Saturday near Hopedale, La., the service said in a news release.
The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, the USCGC Calhoun (WMSL 759), on Saturday at Coast Guard Base Charleston, S.C. It is named for the first master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard, Charles L. Calhoun.