The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.

A prominent Ukrainian officer has been fired in his position as Joint Forces’ commander after being accused of incompetence and blamed for thousands of apparently avoidable casualties. The firing of Lt. Gen. Yuriy Sodol is the latest in a series of leadership changes in Ukraine’s military as the country faces its third year of full-scale Russian invasion.

Julian Assange landed in Australia for the first time in more than a decade, following a guilty plea in a U.S. court that allowed him to return to his home country a free man after serving time in a U.K. prison and holing up in an Ecuadorian embassy.

The US Army’s garrison in Wiesbaden, which has had a major expansion over the past two years, has a new commander.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he would pardon U.S. veterans convicted by the military during a 60-year period that banned gay sex.

The strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance  — and the threats of Chinese and Russian activity in the region  — were front and center as a seasoned submariner took responsibility for all U.S. Navy bases in Japan.

Japanese prosecutors have charged a U.S. airman at Kadena Air Base with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor in December.  

The Marine Corps’ new amphibious combat vehicle went to work in waters off Okinawa doing for the first time what it was designed to do: moving troops from ship to shore.

Australia is streamlining a program that allows American troops and soldiers from other nations to transfer to its army, navy or air force, according to Australian Defence Force officials.

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Wednesday targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden, while a separate attack claimed by Iraqi militants allied with the rebels targeted the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.

Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, he returns there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors.

The 38-minute classified aerial video of a 2007 attack in a Baghdad suburb that killed at least 11 — including two Reuters staffers — was released by WikiLeaks in April 2010, causing a media maelstrom and bringing global attention on Julian Assange, the creator of the anti-secrecy website.

An Air Force officer testified over two days, often through tears, that she did not know how to say “no” when her boss, a two-star general, invited her into his hotel bedroom during an alcohol-fueled night on a work trip.

A U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider made an appearance this month at Osan Air Base, South Korea, as part of two-week joint aerial drills with Seoul’s air force and gunnery training.

Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack are suing the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas.

The granddaughter of a sailor who survived the sinking of the USS Arizona in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s commemoration in December.

Federal agents arrested a Central Pennsylvania man for threatening to kill state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Franklin Republican, in a series of violent posts to Facebook earlier this month, authorities said Tuesday.

For the first time in seven years, Idaho has a new National Guard commanding general. Maj. Gen. Timothy J. Donnellan was officially named the 26th commander of the Idaho National Guard after a change-of-command ceremony Tuesday morning at Gowen Field in Boise.

The Chinese government is subsidizing a wide range of industries in a bid to dominate global markets and develop the ability to coerce the United States in a crisis, according to the new chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.