Members of Congress participated in the USO Experience on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, an event where the USO exhibited its six core programs that support military service members and their families around the world.

Roughly two dozen workers from a food distribution company spent Wednesday morning packing 240 boxes filled with dry goods, toiletries and household supplies to help newly arrived military families at Fort Cavazos.

He was proudest of his “quiet achievements” for ordinary Tennesseans, like helping with a disability claim or VA benefits.

The Pentagon observance ceremony allowed family members to honor the 184 people who lost their lives when terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the southwest corner of the building.

The four passengers on the Polaris Dawn mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center early Tuesday reached their goal of flying farther away from Earth than anyone since the last Apollo mission.

It used to be known as “No Such Agency” — a play on its initials NSA. It was so secretive, its campus didn’t even have an exit sign on the parkway. Now, however, the famously circumspect spy service has launched a podcast.

The USS New York never forgets the events of 9/11. The ship, commissioned Nov. 7, 2009, cuts through the sea with a bow forged from 7½ tons of World Trade Center steel recovered from Ground Zero.

Several members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation plan to renew a push to confer a collective Congressional Gold Medal on veterans who defended Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.

An Associated Press investigation found Donald Asquith’s alleged assault last year happened just days after the CIA promised to crack down on sexual misconduct in its ranks — even as the agency has refused to disclose details on the extent of the problem. A recent 648-page internal watchdog report that found systemic shortcomings in the CIA’s handling of such complaints was classified as “secret,” shielded as a potential threat to national security.

With inflation cooling and worries about the job market spreading, the central bank is expected to announce a long-awaited rate cut next week.

In a remarkable tableau, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stood together at ground zero just hours after Trump and Harris faced off in their first-ever debate. Trump and Biden — the successor whose inauguration Trump skipped — shook hands, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to facilitate a handshake between Harris and Trump.

Kyiv’s attempt to sway the Biden administration comes as Ukraine has faced heavy bombardment from Russia in recent days — especially on its power sector.

Hundreds show up at various events at bases designed to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor those who died in them.

Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian traveled to Iraq on his first trip abroad, hoping to cement Tehran’s ties to Baghdad as regional tensions increasingly pull both countries into the widening Middle East fray.

Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy.

House GOP lawmakers pushed through a subpoena to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify its third-party partners conducting voter registration at some VA hospitals and clinics in battleground states before the presidential election.

Regulators suspended two private enrollment sites from accessing healthcare.gov information over concerns that some consumer information is processed or stored in India. Affordable Care Act marketplace data must stay in the U.S.

Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County headed back to class Tuesday, six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district’s Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta.

The first U.S. troops to deploy after the Sept. 11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later. They are a final group of 9/11 service members that comedian Jon Stewart, a champion for first responders, can’t leave behind.