Yuriy Savchuk, the director of Ukraine’s war museum in Kyiv, crossed into Ukrainian-controlled Russia four times last month to retrieve items for the exhibit.

American industry was making only 14,000 155mm shells a month when the invasion began, but has just hit the 40,000 mark — a 178% increase, the Defense Department said Friday.

House Republicans unveiled on Friday their legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month and fund the government into late March, when a new president and Congress would make the final decision on agency spending and priorities for fiscal year 2025.

Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began, as Ukraine’s president vowed to increase domestic military production by creating underground weapons factories.

With no end in sight to the war, the reality is that whoever wins in November has little incentive to prioritize improving relations with Moscow.

The ruling set off a scramble to redesign ballots in a key swing state with razor-thin margins in recent presidential races. More than 2,910,000 general election ballots had already been printed statewide, and more than 2,300 ballot formats were created for the state this year.

A House committee said that Georgia Tech’s partnership with Tianjin University was particularly troubling since the Georgia Tech Research Institute works with the Department of Defense to solve national security problems.

The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said Saturday that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding 2 1/2-year war, as they urged Kyiv’s allies not to be held back by Russian threats of escalation.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will vote for Kamala Harris for president, he said Friday.

Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began.

The two NASA astronauts left behind at the International Space Station following the return of Boeing’s troubled capsule are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before.

The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, an allegation that Israel vehemently denies. In a report this week, investigator Michael Fakhri claimed it began two days after Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, when Israel’s military offensive in response blocked all food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza.

Authorities have not been able to recover the body of a dead man left aboard a sailboat drifting near Hawaii that was the scene of a perilous rescue of a mother and her child by a U.S. Navy destroyer last week.

Agents with NCIS are investigating the death on Sunday of an unidentified Marine’s family member at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Investigators have not released the names of the two individuals.

A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announced Friday.

The Defense Department is overhauling SkillBridge, its job training program for transitioning service members, with tougher requirements for employers, the creation of a centralized tracking system to measure outcomes and a greater focus on moving participants into full-time work after an internship.

The promise of more lenient license approvals offers an incentive for countries to join the U.S. camp, given American leadership in a range of academic fields and research partnerships. 

A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted personnel could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.

OneWhale, a nonprofit specifically founded to protect Hvaldimir, and NOAH, a Norwegian animal rights group, said this week that they had filed a police report with local law enforcement and the state authorities charged with investigating environmental crimes.