The House approved legislation that would exempt some semiconductor manufacturing projects from federal permitting requirements, addressing concerns that environmental reviews and lawsuits will delay construction of domestic chip factories.

The state of Maryland has added to the legal troubles facing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, which caused the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the massive vessel experienced an ill-timed electrical blackout and other failures.

Tropical Storm Helene formed Tuesday in the Caribbean Sea and could strengthen into a major hurricane while moving north toward the U.S., forecasters said. Heavy rains and big waves already lashed the Cayman Islands, and some Florida residents began to evacuate or fill sandbags ahead of anticipated flooding.

The inspector general said the Navy is set to spend $22 billion to acquire 80 E-2D aircraft and has already fielded 62 aircraft “that do not meet the required performance capabilities.”

The head of the United Nations warned gathered leaders Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward “a powder keg that risks engulfing the world” — the latest in an increasing number of clarion calls from Antonio Guterres in recent years that the global situation is becoming intolerable and unsustainable.

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander Tuesday as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict.

Defense Department personnel serving in Italy could have an easier time traveling home starting next year, following new service announcements from Delta and American Airlines.

Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with Israel.

The Pentagon should rethink its plans for missile defense on Guam and consider less expensive technology with a lighter footprint, according to a former Navy destroyer captain.

A U.S. fast-attack submarine and its crew of around 130 sailors arrived at South Korea’s largest post on Monday, the first stop in Busan by a U.S. sub that’s been disclosed since December.

As the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah grabs global attention, Palestinians in Gaza wonder: What will become of their plight after nearly a year of devastating war?

Japanese prosecutors last week charged a U.S. Marine on Okinawa with sexually assaulting and injuring a woman this summer, the third such case on the island since December.

In his final address as U.S. president to the U.N. General Assembly, Joe Biden used his wide-ranging remarks to speak to the need to end the Middle East conflict and highlight U.S. and Western allies’ support for Kyiv after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Frustrated by 11 months of rocket exchanges and failed cease-fire talks, many of the Israelis who were evacuated from communities on the border with Lebanon — and some who defied orders and stayed — say they back another war with Hezbollah.

Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah is firing rockets and drones deep into northern Israel, setting buildings and cars alight. But no one is calling it a war.

Russia, Iran and China are using artificial intelligence tools as they increase their efforts to sway the American population ahead of the November election, U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, with Moscow especially set on denigrating Vice President Kamala Harris.

A U.N.-backed human rights expert decried violence in Russia by former convicts whose sentences are commuted to fight in Ukraine who then return home to commit crimes including rape and murder.

A new report by congressional Republicans asserts that partnerships between the U.S. and China at universities over the past decade have allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to aid Beijing in developing critical technology that could be used for military purposes.

Dozens of family members and friends gathered Monday at Naval Station Norfolk to wish the crew of the Truman fair winds and following seas ahead of a deployment that is expected to take the warship’s strike group into the Middle East.