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A Virginia man caught with $16,500 in cash in his carry-on luggage was charged Thursday with transmitting top-secret documents to an apparent Chinese agent.

The increased pay is part of an effort to retain airmen in critical fields. Airmen who are eligible could see up to an additional $615 a month in their pay.

Half a world apart, in a theocratic monarchy and a democracy, a king and a president are relying on their thirty-something son and son-in-law to help consolidate power and push their policies.

Closed for renovations since 2012, the second floor of the National Museum of American History's west wing will reopen Wednesday with a renewed purpose: to tell the story of American democracy and encourage people to participate.

Vietnam veteran Bob Luckett heard a report about the challenges veterans face finding a job. He founded a nonprofit that offers veterans a paid four-year training program to prepare them for a career in the construction industry.

Britain's Prince Harry has suggested that no one in the royal family really wishes to rise to the throne — and that it is duty, rather than desire, that prompts them to continue serving the British people.

A lawyer for the owner of the house where Adolf Hitler was born is disputing the government's right to take possession of the property in Austria's highest court, saying authorities are using the measure "like a club" because his client refused purchase offers from authorities that were too low.

French President Emmanuel Macron's new government presented a security bill Thursday to beef up police powers amid extremist threats to Europe.

Afghan officials are hoping to alleviate some of the depression associated with war by literally brightening up the country’s capital.

President Donald Trump appeared to cast doubt on the assessment of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies that blame Russia for election meddling, questioning Thursday why the Obama administration didn't try to stop it.

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A psychologist who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation methods in the war on terror has said his participation in the program that involved torturing suspects caused him "great, soulful torment."

Remains found in 1982 have been identified as an airman from New Mexico who went missing in 1974.

As many as 135 patients could have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a U.S. air base in Qatar because medical equipment wasn’t properly cleaned during examinations in an eight-year period.

They call it the "grill": The victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun furiously within a circle of fire. It is just one of the terrors inflicted by interrogators on detainees in Yemen who are routinely beaten with wires and were kept in filthy shipping containers, blindfolded for months — all by one of America's closest counterterrorism allies.

The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee’s portion of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill, released on Tuesday, calls for a separate service dedicated to defending space, a responsibility that currently falls under the Air Force’s purview.

Attorneys for accused Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl can ask prospective jurors in the soldier’s court-martial about their impressions of President Donald Trump but not if they voted for him, the judge overseeing the case said Thursday.

Our vulnerability to terrorism remains great; we know that decapitating our government is a prime goal of terrorist organizations.

What can we do today to make it right today? We can ask lawmakers to fill the vacant positions at the VA immediately.

The man killed when he drove his car packed with arms and explosives into a police convoy had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group and asked his family to remember him not as a suicide bomber but as a martyr, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said Thursday.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats that next year could be the year they take back control of the House. The response from some: It better be.

A recent insurance study links increased car crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana. The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, said in study results released Thursday that collision claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales began when compared with surrounding states.

Turkish officials said U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has written to his Turkish counterpart, reassuring him that arms provided to Syrian Kurdish fighters would be taken back once ISIS militants are ousted from their main stronghold in Syria.

Hundreds of mourners gathered Thursday to celebrate the life of an American college student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after being returned home to Ohio in a coma.

Gulf Coast states were in for a third day of rough weather as Tropical Storm Cindy sloshed ashore early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana.