Yokota community runs to remember fallen Osprey crew a year after fatal crash
Hundreds of runners gathered Wednesday morning at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to honor eight airmen who died in an Osprey crash off Japan’s coast a year ago.
Hundreds of runners gathered Wednesday morning at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to honor eight airmen who died in an Osprey crash off Japan’s coast a year ago.
The most severe November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century blanketed the capital on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of airplane flights and disrupting commuter traffic.
Former President Donald Trump’s reelection could dramatically shift U.S.-South Korean relations and renew questions about whether Seoul should pursue a nuclear weapons program, experts said this week.
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s staff are reportedly considering efforts to engage in dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Port Klang over the weekend, marking the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit to Malaysia in more than a decade following a high-profile bribery scandal involving a Malaysian contractor.
Elon Musk, soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending, said that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin’s F-35. The comment was one of several criticisms Musk made of the fighter, which is expected to cost the federal government more than $2 trillion over its life span, according to Defense News.
Texas unveiled its newly acquired border ranch — offered as the site of detention facilities to help the Trump administration with proposed mass deportations — and Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said the state is looking to identify additional land to aid the federal effort.
U.S. forces in the Middle East conducted a strike Tuesday against an Iran-backed militant weapons storage facility in Syria, according to U.S. Central Command.
The move came after a week of escalation that saw Putin lower the threshold for using Moscow’s nuclear arsenal.
The states that saw the most active attacks against election certification two years ago certified the results of this year’s races without controversy this week, prompting the Arizona secretary of state to proclaim that “election denialism” is a thing of the past.
In 2006, the U.N. Security Council voted for a resolution to end a month-long conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militant group and pave the way for lasting security along the border. There was relative calm for nearly two decades, but Resolution 1701’s terms were never fully enforced. Now, figuring out how to finally enforce it is key to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal approved by Israel on Tuesday.
The USS Beloit is named for the city of Beloit, Wis., which was a center for heavy industry in the early 20th century. Officials used the event to praise the U.S. defense industrial base and new littoral combat ships, despite the LCS program’s controversy.
The 46,000-square-foot cheese (and sausage, souvenir, sandwich and liquor) store in Kenosha is hard to categorize. It leaves travelers fed and watered and walking away with bags of treats they didn’t know they wanted, much like the beaver’s convenience stores that have attracted regional fanaticism. But it’s more than a roadside curiosity or corporate franchise. It’s a store that has become a symbol for all things Wisconsin.
The USS Minnesota arrived Tuesday at Naval Base Guam, the first Virginia-class fast-attack submarine to be homeported in the strategically important U.S. territory.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday reached a required agreement with President Joe Biden’s White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce before taking office on Jan. 20.
A suspected animal rights extremist wanted in the U.S. for bombings in the San Francisco area was arrested in Britain after more than 20 years on the run from the law, officials said Tuesday.
Restriction to base is more commonly used in sentences for those already living there, and if they don’t, the airman’s first sergeant would secure a dorm room for the service member. Instead, Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart’s command “refused to obtain and fund accommodations for the restriction period.”
The Associated Press has found that the study, “Prohibited Extremist Activities in the U.S. Department of Defense” conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses, relied on old data, misleading analyses and ignored evidence that pointed to the opposite conclusion.