Military

President Donald Trump’s stunning year-end announcement that he is redirecting decades of U.S. Naval planning by re-emphasizing surface, rather than submarine warfare with construction of a new class of battleships is running into a buzzsaw of skepticism and could face a Congressional challenge.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland but he added in his social media post that federal forces will "come back" if crime rates go up.

Sen. Patty Murray criticized a Trump administration overhaul to veterans’ abortion access this week after the Justice Department issued an opinion barring the federal government from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnancy threatens their health.

Having already made his list – and having checked it twice – Santa Claus is coming. You can track his progress on Christmas Eve.

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would not allow President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard in the Chicago area for now, a significant setback for his campaign to push troops into cities across the country over the objections of local and state leaders.

The US fleet of F-35s, the most sophisticated stealth fighter jet in the world, was only available to fly half of the time because of poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin Corp., a government watchdog said.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs is eliminating 137 vacant positions at Spokane’s Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center as part of a nationwide effort to “streamline operations and eliminate waste,” the hospital’s director told staff on Dec. 12.

In the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon, servicemembers and military officials gathered for a Christmas worship service that featured Christian rock music and concluded with a short sermon from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It wasn’t the first prayer service at the Pentagon. Since May, Hegseth has held regular monthly worship services during working hours at the building.

Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets flying in tandem entered Venezuelan airspace around noon Tuesday, circling over the Gulf of Venezuela in the latest show of force against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

A lei-clad crowd of veterans, widows, children and friends gathered at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Stone on Sunday to mark the Dec. 7, 1941, tragedy.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has “great confidence” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September.

Keirsten Lyons strives to highlight the stories of nearly 400 military members who have died since 9/11.

Col. Ryan Smith started by asking the crowd of 308 people something simple: What’s the definition of a warrior?

When Rep. Chrissy Houlahan sits down to question witnesses at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, it can feel like a time machine back to her own military service. For one thing, the officers seated across from her are often mostly male.

Its origin dates to 1919 and the end of World War I. What is now known as Veterans Day will bring lots of closed offices but perks at several other businesses for those who served or continue to wear U.S. military uniforms.

Over the years they have received many monikers, some more irreverent than others: Soldiers of the sea. Teufelhund. Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. Leatherneck. Jarhead. Crayon eaters. But at the end of 13 grueling weeks of boot camp the most important title remains United States Marine.

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump demanded immediate nuclear tests.