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Military officials have identified the pilot and photographer who died when a Snowbirds jet crashed during a training mission Thursday at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, the aerobatic squadron's home base in southwest ...

A Carteret County man who apparently fell off the fishing boat he crewed remained missing Friday as the Coast Guard continued a sea and air search for a second day.

COLOMBO * At least 40 people were killed for a second straight day in the Sri Lankan military's push into rebel Tamil Tiger territory, the military said yesterday, a day after a failed suicide attack targetting ...

NAIROBI, KENYA -- The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum today and threatened to destroy the ship if no ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said.

The Air Force says more than 40 personnel including air crews and maintenance teams are deploying to Southwest Asia.

Two bodies pulled from a sunken pleasure boat in waters off Los Angeles are the missing brother of Reps.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely eavesdropped on the private telephone calls of American ...

Maj. John Klatt and dozens of other aerobatic pilots will take part in the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show this weekend.

Opening statements have been delayed one day in the murder trial of a New York National Guard member charged with killing two superior officers in Iraq, the military said Thursday.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Protesters gathered outside a gate at the Army's Fort Bragg to draw attention to the deaths of female soldiers this year because of domestic violence.

Democrat Barack Obama has built a 4-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the race for the White House, aided by growing support from women and independent voters, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby ...

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President George Bush will make a brief visit to South Carolina later this week.

A wildfire is burning on a Marine training range at the Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Eastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where their forces are more urgently needed.

The Supreme Court is weighing whether presidential power in wartime can override environmental concerns in a case that pits the Navy's submarine-hunting training against protection for whales.

The Bush administration, in arguments Wednesday, is asking the court to undo lower court rulings that limited the use of sonar in naval training exercises off the coast of Southern California.

Sonar, which the Navy relies on to locate enemy submarines, can interfere with whales' ability to navigate and communicate. There is also evidence that the technology has caused whales to strand themselves on shore.

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain tried to rectify perceived shortcomings and played against type at key moments in Tuesday's presidential debate, but neither seemed to change a campaign dynamic that favors Obama for now.

McCain, the anti-tax conservative, proposed the night's only new government program: a $300 billion plan to help beleaguered homeowners, which might have made Franklin Roosevelt proud.

And Obama, the supposed neophyte on foreign policy, chided the older Navy veteran for his flippant remarks about Iran, forcing McCain into a somewhat sheepish explanation.

A fire aboard the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier resulted from a failure to properly store hazardous materials and other missteps that allowed the fire to burn unchecked for more than ...

Several maritime groups say shipping on the Great Lakes could be disrupted this winter because of a shortage of U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers.

A former Army contractor pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing nearly $40 million worth of jet and diesel fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq and selling it on the black market.