“Military personnel historically use tobacco and nicotine products at much higher rates than their civilian counterparts,” University of Virginia researcher Melissa Little said. “Our results show that these same disparities are continuing with new and emerging products, like nicotine pouches.”

The outcome cements President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction before he returns to power before while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine. The case was the only one of four criminal indictments that has gone to trial and possibly the only one that ever will.

Venezuela’s legislative palace, where President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in to a third term, was heavily guarded. Crowds of people, many sporting pro-Maduro T-shirts, gathered nearby, a day after hundreds of anti-Maduro protesters took to the streets of the capital.

An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged. That’s according a security firm’s statement Friday.

Government officials representing Japan and Okinawa repeated pleas to the US military to discipline its population following a fourth sexual assault allegation against a service member on Okinawa in just over a year.

US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel defended American forces abroad as ‘the thin blue line.’ 

A drone collided with a firefighting aircraft flying over the Palisades fire on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

Contradicting what U.S. spy agencies have publicly said, senior National Security Council officials told a group of Havana Syndrome victims in a meeting at the White House that they have seen information that undercuts the intelligence community’s assessment that no foreign adversary was behind the incidents.

The Navy is changing its Exceptional Family Member Program to help tailor individual sailors’ duty assignments to the services available to their special-needs family members, rather than relying on blanket categories to determine the assignment process.

A federal appeals court denied a bid to block the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. The report, however, will not immediately be released, and there’s no guarantee it will as more legal wrangling is expected.