South Korean leader meets Ukraine delegation and calls for response to North Korean troops in Russia

South Korea’s president on Wednesday met a visiting Ukraine delegation and called for the two countries to formulate countermeasures in response to the threat posed by North Korea’s recent dispatch of more than 10,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says

Each had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. One had been facing a death sentence on drug charges while two were imprisoned on espionage charges.

Trump’s trade chief advocates ‘strategic decoupling’ from China

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the top trade position sees China as a “generational challenge” to the US and has advocated for a strategic decoupling from the country.

Trump taps businessman and mega donor as next Navy secretary

John Phelan is the founder of Rugger Management LLC and co-founder of MSD Capital, both private investment firms. He also serves as a board member of military-themed nonprofit Spirit of America.

Fort Campbell soldier charged in overdose death of fellow soldier

A Fort Campbell soldier has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide in the 2022 death of an Army private who died of a fentanyl overdose, according to court records.

Soldier at DOD’s Landstuhl hospital sentenced for sexually assaulting fellow unit member

A U.S. soldier assigned to a military hospital in Germany faces over four years behind bars and must register as a sex offender after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a female fellow soldier in his barracks room.

Thousands of Lebanese return to their homes as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes hold

Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home Wednesday as a ceasefire took hold, driving cars stacked with personal belongings and defying warnings from Lebanese and Israeli troops to avoid some areas.

‘Come for the dog, stay for the care’: Sailors find mental health care aboard Navy warships through ‘fur therapy’

Four dogs have deployed aboard East Coast-based warships since 2023 as part of a small-scale test. The test is part of a quality-of-life initiative the Navy launched in 2022 in the wake of a cluster of sailor suicides.

US soldier gets suspended sentence for smuggling synthetic pot into South Korea

A South Korean court handed a suspended sentence to an American soldier convicted of smuggling synthetic cannabis into the country via military mail.

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.