People looking to AI chatbots to make a romantic connection, feel less lonely say they’ve developed emotional attachments to the bots.

The U.S. Defense Department recently instituted a change to its bereavement leave policy to give eligibile service members up to two weeks of bereavement leave.

DOD implements new bereavement leave for loss of immediate family

The new bereavement leave benefit applies only to active-duty and active National Guard and reserve members who have served longer than 12 months but have less than 30 days leave available to them.

The scene near Ichigaya, Tokyo, following the bombing of Tokyo, May 9-10, 1945.

Annual ceremony for Tokyo bombing victims includes American POWs for first time

The names of 62 American prisoners of war killed in the bombing of Tokyo during World War II were read aloud for the first time, along with those of other bombing victims, at a memorial event earlier this month.

An Air Force Reserve recruiter explains the enlistment contract to recruits at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 30, 2016.

Air Force, facing recruit shortfall, dusts off student debt relief program

The Air Force is bringing back the Enlisted College Loan Repayment Program that it curtailed nine years ago.

Japanese and American ambulances park out the 374th Medical Group's urgent care entrance at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, March 17, 2023.

US military hospitals in Japan further ease DOD civilians’ access to health care

Health care providers at Yokota, the airlift hub in western Tokyo; Camp Zama, the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan southwest of Tokyo; and Naval Hospital Okinawa at the Marine Corps’ Camp Foster all freed additional time for DOD civilians to make space-available appointments for chronic medical conditions.

Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the 7th Fleet, speaks to the crew of the mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer at Sasebo Naval Base, Japan, June 9, 2022.

Biden nominates 7th Fleet commander to be next director of naval intelligence

Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as director of naval intelligence, one of several promotions or new assignments announced recently.

Brig. Gen. David Eaglin, commander of the 18th Wing, far left, poses with Maj. Grace Gibbens, left to right, Maj. Andrew Travis, Capt. Anthony Delgado and Tech. Sgt. Shelby Duncan at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Feb. 8, 2023.

Airmen receive valor medals for aid flights during Iranian missile attack in Iraq

Four airmen with Kadena’s 18th Wing received awards for valor earlier this month for their actions three years ago during an Iranian rocket attack on al Asad Air Base in Iraq.

Members of Taiwan’s 564th Armored Brigade pose with their flag after demonstrating their ability to repel an airborne attack near Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Jan. 11, 2023.

More US military trainers are headed to Taiwan, according to newspaper report

The United States plans to send between 100 and 200 troops to Taiwan, up from about 30 there a year ago, amid rising tensions with China.

Marines apply a tourniquet to a mock casualty during the Bushido Strike exercise at Dagmar North Training Area in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023.

Okinawa-based Marines carry out ‘warrior’ training near Korean Demilitarized Zone

Roughly 80 Marines from the III Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, III MEF Information Group, out of Camp Hansen on Okinawa, were wrapping up a combat readiness exercise at the Dagmar North Training Area in Paju, roughly three miles from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Soldiers from Battery A, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, conduct live-fire exercises using the M109 Paladins at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, March 14, 2022. The first class of 635 Ukrainian fighters has finished a five-week advanced U.S. training course in Germany on sophisticated combat skills and armored vehicles, including M109 Paladins, that will be critical in the coming spring offensive against the Russians, the Pentagon said Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (Capt. Patrick M. Connelly/U.S. Army via AP)

‘Russia thinks they can just wait us out’: US must be ironclad on defending Ukraine, security experts say

Continued military aid for Ukraine to help beat back invading Russian forces is necessary to ward off a new era of tyrannical aggression and the U.S. must make Russian President Vladimir Putin understand the West won’t give up the fight, a panel of security experts said Friday.