The Navy spent nearly $4 million more than it should have to repair radars on its F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets. The DOD inspector general found that Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support failed to obtain fair pricing for 53% of over 200 parts examined.
The competition between the United States and China has seen geopolitical and economic flash points sprawl across continents.
The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country’s national parks.
China’s military is carrying out armed patrols near the Myanmar border this week, where the government is concerned about potential fallout from fierce fighting in a civil war on the other side.
Helping the allies whom American troops left behind has never felt optional. Not for veterans who continue to stand in the gap at significant personal and financial expense.
A SpaceX rocket flight early Tuesday would put a crew of four in the highest orbit since the Apollo era and, even more dramatically, have them open the hatch and perform the first spacewalk by private astronauts.
The families and loved ones of National Guard units from Pennsylvania and Idaho bid farewell last week as soldiers prepared to deploy to Europe.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.
The Blue Angels took flight on a steamy Saturday on the first day of the Frontiers in Flight Air Show at McConnell Air Force Base. Severe weather and storm damage, however, forced the show to cancel the Sunday portion.
Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannons and blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel Sunday in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the Asian neighbors have flared alarmingly at sea and spread into the air in recent weeks.
The two sides of Walz’s service have been in the spotlight now that the Minnesota governor is the Democratic nominee for vice president. Supporters have lauded Walz’s 24 years of service in the National Guard; critics question the timing of his departure.
Anthony S. Fauci was hospitalized with West Nile virus this month, according to a spokesperson for the nation’s former top infectious-disease official.
Among judges currently on the bench, David Gill is the longest-serving in the state of California. He’s also San Diego’s longest-serving judge ever. This year, Gill is hanging up his robe for good. He leaves behind a long legal legacy.
The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, was christened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas.
In 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people. While the damage in Japan has been well documented, the story of New Mexico downwinders and the health effects that resulted from Trinity Test fallout is relatively unknown.
The two astronauts who will spend extra months at the International Space Station have both flown long space missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the space station since the beginning of June.
NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says an isolationist policy isn’t “healthy” as she called on the Republican party to stand with her country’s allies during a visit to Taiwan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for president Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, a late-stage shakeup of the presidential race that could give the former president a modest boost from Kennedy’s supporters.