China’s military is keeping silent on its large deployment of naval and coast guard ships off Taiwan this week. Its top spokesperson quoted an ancient Chinese text called “The Art of War” instead.
An American who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system said he was released by the “liberators” who arrived in Damascus a day after the longtime ruler fled the capital. Travis Timmerman said he was not ill-treated in prison, but his release was a “blessing.”
The U.S. Department of Energy says $365 million is available to install solar and battery storage systems in homes and healthcare centers across Puerto Rico.
The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York has prompted health care companies to rethink and increase security for executives.
The White House on Thursday announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia, following a similar national plan to battle antisemitism that President Joe Biden unveiled in May 2023.
Police say the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was never a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence.
While the electronic health records system and several other major projects sound good in theory, they have been over budget by billions of dollars and fail to function properly, Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., said during a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee subpanel hearing.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder in the June shooting death of a 47-year-old mother and military veteran, Pennsylvania police said.
The rebel group that now runs Syria’s government offered on Thursday to “cooperate directly” with the United States to search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, a move that analysts said could hasten efforts to learn his whereabouts, or whether he is living or dead.
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s home was targeted by a bomb threat last week, the latest in a string that have been leveled against members of Congress from New England in the past month.
Service members could gain the ability to repair and maintain their own equipment under a new bill that seeks to cut Pentagon spending on defense contractors.
The veterans served in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard and will see their convictions wiped out alongside 24 others who were pardoned by President Joe Biden. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said.
The battle plans had been drawn up years ago, and when the Syrian state fell suddenly, Israel wasted no time putting them in motion.
The initial data released in the Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at the Military Academies shows an estimated 783 academy students experienced unwanted sexual contact in the 2023-24 school year compared with 1,136 in 2022.
Alexander Smirnov was arrested in February on allegations that he falsely reported to the FBI in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter Biden and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016.
The simply named Pad Thai Restaurant near Osan Air Base has a simple name and modest storefront, but serves up authentic and delicious cuisine.
The latest deadly strike hit the urban Nuseirat refugee camp just hours after U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters in Jerusalem that the recent ceasefire in Lebanon has helped clear the way for a potential deal to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from the country’s notorious prisons after rebels reached Damascus over the weekend, overthrowing President Bashar Assad and ending his family’s 54-year rule.
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence, according to a watchdog report. It also says no undercover FBI employees were present that day and none of the bureau’s informants was authorized to participate.