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The two most important features of the new basic economy airfares to note: on some airlines, you're not allowed to place a bag in the overhead bins (your carry-on item must be small enough to fit safely under the seat in front of you); and because you can't choose a seat in advance, you'll be assigned a seat at check-in or at the gate. But there are other restrictions and rules to note, which I've broken down by airline.

The number of ground accidents for Marine Corps aircraft has more than doubled over the last five years, costing the Marines thousands of flying hours due to broken aircraft, the head of Marine Corps aviation told reporters Wednesday.

A Civil Air Patrol squadron commander in Kansas has resigned his position amid a police investigation of a threatening message he sent to a Johnson County, Kan., lawmaker on social media.

There are few things more breathtaking than that first glimpse of the Yosemite Valley and the sheer majesty of El Capitan. But glorious as that is, it's a mere subset of the national park's 1,162 square miles, which hold acres of trails and rugged wilderness -- and a Victorian blast to the past in Wawona.

It's Mardi Gras season once again, and while New Orleans is the American epicenter of this festive pre-Lenten celebration, there are plenty of other options for some fantastically fun Fat Tuesday revelry.

Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Wednesday over an incident involving a Ukrainian military aircraft flying over a Russian-operated gas rig in the Black Sea.

The Senate has confirmed Rex Tillerson as President Donald Trump's secretary of state.

A Civil Air Patrol squadron commander in Kansas has resigned his position amid a police investigation of a threatening message he sent to a Johnson County, Kan., lawmaker on social media.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser says the administration is putting Iran "on notice" after it tested a ballistic missile.

The widow of a man who drowned in South Carolina's historic 2015 flooding is suing the federal government over a dam that failed on an Army base near Columbia.

Iraqi security forces are now preparing to attack Islamic State fighters entrenched in western Mosul, a battle that the U.S.-led coalition believes could be more bloody than the monthslong fight to recapture the eastern portion of the city from the militants.

An Old Dominion University statistics professor has apologized for a strongly worded email that told a group of faculty, administrators and graduate students “screw you” and “you are not American” if they didn’t plan to attend any of a series of events centered around diversity.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching the Atlantic off of the Florida Keys for a Canadian filmmaker who went missing while scuba diving.

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus on Wednesday told lawmakers that waning U.S. resolve toward NATO and its allies will play into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to undermine the global order.

Judge Neil Gorsuch made his first trip to Capitol Hill as President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning for a series of meetings in a sharply divided Senate that will decide his fate in the coming months.

Iraqi special forces have asked for U.S. anti-drone weapons to protect their troops in the coming battle to drive the Islamic State militants from Mosul’s western suburbs.

In the crumbling industrial city that produced Yugo cars before war tore apart the Balkans, Aleksa Djuraskovic is worried history is again catching up with his Serbian homeland.

A visit by President Vladimir Putin to Hungary this week reveals the vastly different reactions to Putin's Russia in countries formerly under Moscow's yoke, and highlights the very different challenges those countries will face in working with the new U.S. administration.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus says President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees is blocking a senior Iraqi military official from traveling to the U.S. to meet with his American counterparts.

Freezing residents of an eastern Ukraine town battered by an upsurge in fighting between government troops and Russia-backed rebels flocked to a humanitarian aid center Wednesday to receive food and warm up.

A report Sunday by German weekly Welt am Sonntag quoted an internal Foreign Ministry memo describing how migrants face torture and execution at detention camps in Libya. The country has become a key departure point for migrants from Africa trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Thousands of people died last year when their rickety boats sank en route.

Libya's U.N.-backed prime minister said Wednesday NATO or European Union ships could be permitted to operate in Libyan waters alongside the national navy if those organizations help modernize his country's vessels.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 11-9 to advance the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general. He is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate by the end of the week.

One person was killed and another injured Tuesday in a training mishap involving two F-16 fighter jets and accompanying ground control crew at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

A 17-year-old Islamic State sympathizer planned to set off a pipe bomb near Ramstein Air Base but changed his mind because he didn’t want to “kill so many people,” according to media reports.