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In a rousing show of support, the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday questioned Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer during a two-hour preliminary confirmation hearing that looked more like a unanimous endorsement than the rigors of interrogation.

Virginia Hall, a spy based in Lyon, France, was considered one of the most effective Allied spies leading the French resistance. But she was being stalked by a pursuer of equal repute: Gestapo chief, Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie, who went by his own moniker, "The Butcher of Lyon."

In addition to health care and appointments, the Senate will also devote time to passing a defense authorization bill "and other important issues," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Senate will now remain at work through the week of Aug. 7.

Chris Dever, 45, will get behind a car and a van together on Sept. 30 to see how far his muscles can move them to raise money for PADS during his third annual Mogadishu Mile Car Push.

The United States on Tuesday faced calls to maintain pressure on Sudan's government, the day before Washington is expected to announce the permanent lifting of sanctions dating back to the 1990s.

Senators from both sides of the aisle are hoping to move quickly on legislation that would put further economic pressure on North Korea in the aftermath of the country’s first successful launch of a long-range ballistic missile.

Two Americans fighting alongside Kurdish forces in northern Syria were killed last week as the battle to retake the Islamic State's de-facto capital there continues well into its second month.

An 8-year-old boy from Washington has become an honorary rescue swimmer with the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska.

Al Compoly found a slightly-worn WWII-era helmet at a flea market and it sat in his office for nearly a year until he spotted a name tag. Now he's preparing to return the helmet to the family of its original owner.

The top U.S. commander in Iraq says the coalition may increase airstrikes and overhead surveillance support for the fight to retake Raqqa, Syria, from the Islamic State group now that the militants have been largely defeated in Mosul, Iraq.

"He's far from being a bad kid," Clifford Kang said of his only son, Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang. He said he was devastated when he learned the FBI arrested his son over the weekend for alleged ties to the terrorist group Islamic State.

The Islamic State group's mix of a local insurgency and digitally connected global jihadis gives the group staying power and the means to relaunch its future, from small cells of extremists escaping the war zone in Iraq and Syria to those who never went there in the first place.

Federal authorities said Tuesday that they are no longer investigating a pipe bomb explosion that damaged a northeast Oklahoma Air Force recruiting station as a possible act of domestic terrorism, adding that the blast could be the work of a disgruntled employee or a prank.

Forty House lawmakers signed onto a letter Monday criticizing the Department of Veterans Affairs for slow reimbursements to private-sector doctors that they say harm their veteran constituents’ credit reports.

Navy officials announced Tuesday that the USS Fitzgerald commanding officer is being temporary relieved of his command for medical reasons.

The USS Fitzgerald’s commanding officer has been temporarily relieved of his duties because of medical reasons, Navy officials announced Tuesday.

With debris scattered for miles across the flat countryside of the Mississippi Delta, federal and local officials combed soybean fields for clues in a military plane crash that killed 15 Marines and a Navy sailor.

Investigators picked through debris across a fire-blackened soybean field Tuesday to try to determine why a U.S. military plane slammed into the ground, killing all 16 people aboard in the deadliest Marine crash anywhere in the world in more than a decade.

A Marine Corps refueling plane crashed and burned in a soybean field in the Mississippi Delta, killing all 16 military members aboard in a wreck that scattered debris for miles and sent a pillar of black smoke rising over the countryside.

India's top diplomat called for a de-escalation of tensions with China, saying ties between the countries were too intertwined to let a renewed border spat cause lasting damage.

The video showed a small rubber dinghy crowded with terrified migrants. Next to it, a uniformed man in a Libyan coast guard boat was yelling and wielding a bullwhip.

A meeting between President Donald Trump's eldest son and a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign occurred at the behest of a Moscow-based singer with family ties to Trump's businesses, according to a participant in the talks. Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Monday he made time for the meeting hoping to get information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Sporadic clashes continued on Tuesday in Mosul, even after Iraq's prime minister declared a "total victory" over the Islamic State group in the city and at least one airstrike hit the Old City neighborhood that was the scene of the fierce battle's final days.

Wildfires driving people from their homes in California and throughout the west have had help from an unlikely source: the rain. Major winter downpours that pulled the state out of years of drought also brought a layer of grass that early-summer fires are greedily feeding on.

U.S. Army Europe’s largest exercise of the year started on Tuesday in Bulgaria, commencing two weeks of drills involving 25,000 troops from more than 20 nations.