Ted Novak, 101, a thrice-wounded veteran of some of World War II’s most famous and deadliest battles, has received France’s highest honor — the Legion of Honor — from the French government.

Two House committees moved ahead Thursday with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel, advancing the matter after the White House’s decision to block the release of the recording earlier in the day.

A northern Michigan marine dock is suing the defense contractor Lockheed Martin, alleging that a 388-foot combat ship caused more than $2.5 million in damages to the facility’s seawall, dock and the surrounding lakebed.

The Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reversing a lower-court ruling that would have undermined the watchdog agency Congress created in the wake of the financial crisis to protect borrowers from predatory lenders, junk fees and other abuses.

World War II aircraft that moved troops and cargo across the North Atlantic to Europe are being retooled, fueled and readied to make the same journey the aircraft did 80 years ago for a commemorative flight to pay tribute to the D-Day invasion.

The USS Harry S. Truman will soon lead a Navy strike group into the volatile Red Sea, where U.S. sailors have fought almost daily for months to down drones and missiles launched by Houthi rebels from Yemen.

Airmen and guardians attending military training away from their families for no more than a year will now qualify for an additional housing allowance to ease the costs of paying for two residences.

The Defense Department announced plans to prevent private development around military installations in New Mexico, Utah, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and California, in a move to protect the environment and prevent interference with military operations.

Enlisted soldiers are no longer required to take Distributed Learning Courses one through six, which account for 253 hours of mouse clicks and keyboard entries.

The death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson has community leaders including the NAACP asking whether unconscious bias led the deputy to shoot the young service member simply because he was a young, Black male and ask what, if anything, can be done to prevent this kind of tragedy.

Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 30, was ordered transferred to an unspecified federal psychiatric hospital facility following a May 4 decision by Federal District Judge John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court of Western Washington.

A proposed $8 billion information technology budget at the Department of Veterans Affairs that is 3% lower than the current spending plan prompted questions from House lawmakers about why IT infrastructure and development are targeted for deep cuts in fiscal 2025, while salaries will rise.

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a retired Army general, argued Wednesday that a military spouse’s struggle to have a fulfilling career is just part of the sacrifice of a family in the service and doesn’t need protection.

Two people were placed in the custody of U.S. immigration officials after they tried to drive a delivery truck past security guards and onto Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly in eastern Ohio until four days after last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment

Florida will eliminate climate change as a priority in making energy policy decisions, despite the threats it faces from powerful hurricanes, extreme heat and worsening toxic algae blooms.

Lily Greenberg Call is at least the fifth mid- or senior-level administration staffer to publicly resign in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. President Joe Biden she said “is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong.”

In all, it took 2 hours and 19 minutes for the plebes to raise Ben Leisegang, 20, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., to scale the monument and complete the Herndon Climb.

COVID-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a U.S. study showed.