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Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who was formally nominated on Thursday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, said he faces "huge challenges" and hopes to see unity and consensus during his term.

Six Fort Campbell soldiers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than $1 million worth of sensitive military gear that was sold on the Internet, in some cases to anonymous buyers in foreign countries.

The Pentagon said Thursday that the United States would protect coalition and U.S. aircraft over Syria, hours after Russia warned it might stop the flight-safety calls used to avoid incidents between U.S. and Russian pilots.

Forty-five Afghan soldiers have disappeared during training on U.S. military installations in the past two years, Pentagon officials said, exposing a hole in security as many presumably stay in the country illegally.

It’s not often you see a movie that captures the all too torturous years of middle school -- perhaps because we’d all rather forget the horrors of 7th grade. Which is why “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” feels a bit unique. It’s not about children, or teenagers, but those awkward in-betweeners, kids straining at the boundaries of childhood. In this story, based on the book written by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, boundaries are in fact, the enemy.

Lots of documentaries these days will tell you to be afraid, to be very afraid, but few will scare you as coolly and as convincingly as “Command and Control.”

No Republican in campaign 2016 ever sounded more convincing in attacking Obamacare, or in voting dozens of times to repeal it without ever trying to fix it.

Bryce Hollweg played hockey at West Point, serving three years as a captain and leading the Black Knights to their first and only Atlantic Hockey Association regular-season championship as a senior during the 2007-08 season.

The fundamental problem is that a large portion of any college’s operating funds comes from federal student loans, on which taxpayers take the loss if students fail to repay. Universities themselves have no skin in this game.

Sudan is denying allegations made by a rights group that it used chemical weapons in the country's western Darfur region, describing them as an "unfounded fabrication."

Locked in his toughest reelection fight in two decades in a state filled with former service members, McCain told the American Legion that he will remove language from a military policy bill that would have taken away a veteran's right to go to the head of the federal hiring queue not once but twice.

Not more than a half-hour had passed following the Navy football team's 28-14 loss to Air Force when Coach Ken Niumatalolo began turning his attention to Houston, calling the undefeated Cougars the stiffest challenge yet.

Military installations along the U.S. southeast coast evacuated non-essential personnel and equipment as troops were mobilized to respond to Hurricane Matthew that barreled toward Florida on Thursday after killing more than 100 people in the Caribbean.

Military installations along the U.S. southeast coast evacuated non-essential personnel and equipment as troops were mobilized to respond to Hurricane Matthew that barreled toward Florida on Thursday after killing more than 100 people in the Caribbean.

Duterte’s genocide is the logical conclusion of the brutal rhetoric of the drug war.

The point of war is to attain peace on our terms; the human connection is an important part of facilitating it.

"They have never had a major hurricane hit from Cape Canaveral northward to Georgia in the past century," said the co-founder of Weather Underground. "It is certainly the most dangerous one since Sandy, and the most dangerous for Florida since Wilma."

Army budgets have been unstable for eight years, subject to long fights in Congress, said Mike Maxwell, director of resource management and materiel and chief financial officer for the Army Reserve.

The stabbings at a central Minnesota mall last month that wounded 10 likely was premeditated by the attacker, who may have become radicalized recently, federal authorities said Thursday.

Pence isn’t so much a balance for Trump’s frenzied, aimless energy as he is a translator for it.

Even if American airports aren’t as bad as the rhetoric suggests, that doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement.

The military pageant gets going in earnest Thursday with a parade of ships, a collection of bands and other displays of pomp that are expected to draw 1.2 million people into the city, including more than 4,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen.

A businessman from China who pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from U.S. seed corn companies has been sentenced to three years in prison.

The Medal of Honor Society is made up of all 77 living Medal of Honor recipients. Forty-one of the recipients are scheduled to attend this week and they will visit 14 high schools to promote its character development program.

The U.N. envoy for Syria called on militant fighters to leave Aleppo and for the Syrian and Russian governments to end their bombing campaign against rebel-held areas of the embattled Syrian city, warning that otherwise thousands of people could be killed by year-end and Aleppo could be "destroyed."