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The facilities are either vacant or mostly vacant, according to a VA news release. Some of the buildings will be demolished, while others will be prepared for a different use. VA Secretary David Shulkin said the closures would come “as swiftly as possible.”

Islamic leaders are questioning Virginia detectives' insistence that the beating death of a teenage Muslim girl appears to have been a case of road rage, saying the attack looks all too much like a hate crime.

The Trump administration is considering banning travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, as outrage grew over the death of American student Otto Warmbier and President Donald Trump declared it a "total disgrace."

President Donald Trump's choice for deputy defense secretary had a rocky confirmation hearing Tuesday, with Sen. John McCain at one point threatening to withhold his nomination from a vote.

The graves will be rededicated Saturday during a ceremony with members of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War dressed in Civil War-era military attire.

The report by the Center for Public Integrity comes as the lab is under orders to ramp up production of the plutonium “pits” that serve as triggers for nuclear bombs.

Syrian government troops and their allies have steadily positioned themselves in key areas on the flanks of the U.S.-led coalition battle for the Islamic State's self-declared capital of Raqqa.

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Tuesday the department was taking immediate steps to remove employees found to have stolen opioid and other drugs from VA medical centers, citing a flawed accountability process that has delayed disciplinary action.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was deployed for the past seven months in the Middle East and Mediterranean, according to a Navy news release.

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on more Russian companies and individuals as well as separatists in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine as President Donald Trump held White House talks with Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko.

A crime scene investigator told a military court Tuesday that three U.S. military trainers killed at the gate of a Jordanian air base had come under heavy fire, including from inside a nearby guard house.

There is now a push in Congress, led by Disabled American Veterans and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, to expand services like medical training, counseling, respite care and monthly stipends to all veterans.

The Golden Coyote training exercise this week includes 30 military units from 13 states, Guam, Canada and Denmark, as well as a handful of service members from Germany and the United Kingdom.

Prosecutors want to present evidence that a soldier and a Navy SEAL suffered grievous injuries on separate missions to find Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if the accused deserter is convicted later this year, recent court documents show.

Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that Americans who are "stupid" enough to still want to travel to North Korea should be required to sign a waiver absolving the U.S. government of any blame should they be harmed while there.

Americans have always been fond of guns, but as an index on our current interest, try to count the number of gunshots you hear during the trailers for coming attractions the next time you go to the movies.

We have the strongest military in the world. What is rarely considered, however, is what the successful application of that military power is intended to accomplish.

I owe it to the people in my community, God help me, to try to stop a threat to their safety, should it ever occur because of my presence.

Pakistan said Tuesday that it has begun building a fence along its border with Afghanistan to improve security, a move that has angered authorities in Kabul.

French police detained four family members of a man who was killed after ramming his car into a Paris police convoy, as authorities struggled to explain how the attacker was able to keep his gun permit despite being monitored for links to extremism.

It’s unclear who first received the military medal engraved with John Brandley's name, but when a stranger turned it over to VFW members several months ago, JoAnn Piazzola made it her mission to return the medal to the family.

Afghan authorities on Tuesday arrested a teenager who had threatened to blow himself up at Bagram Air Field, officials said.

Kirsten Dunst didn’t want to kiss anyone. She was 16 and had been playing a young innocent on-screen for a decade. Now, on the set of Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides,” she was supposed to film a scene in which she made out with a handful of guys. And she was riddled with anxiety.

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer was awarded the distinguished Air Medal Monday for heroic action in the helicopter rescue of a 28-year-old man who had fallen 50 feet while free climbing in Maine last fall.