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The sudden collapse of talks to form a coalition government left German politics in turmoil Monday, as Chancellor Angela Merkel reckoned with one of the worst crises of her 12-year tenure and signaled that a new election is likely.

While most Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving at the home of family or friends, many sailors in Hampton Roads will spend the day standing duty aboard their ships. The Navy wants to ensure those crews and their loved ones don't miss out on a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

If you’re the last to board, then the chances increase that cabin crew will make you gate-check your carry-on bag if the bins are filled by those who boarded ahead of you.

The Korean War had ended two years earlier and Ronald Peoples thought he might serve during relative global calm. That was not to be. The Cold War, pitting the Soviet Union against the United States and its allies, was heating up.

About 60 people attended the ceremony, where representatives of the German and Italian militaries spoke and laid wreaths in honor of the dead.

The Defense Ministry plans to start research on antiship missiles from fiscal 2018, and it is considering adding land-attack capabilities to the missiles. If realized, it will be the first time for Japan to develop land-attack cruise missiles on a full scale.

A Pennsylvania town has reached a detente over a former councilman's broadcast of taps through loudspeakers at his home, which had caused complaints and lawsuit threats.

For the Navy football program, this season has come down to accomplishing two remaining goals: Winning season. Beating Army.

A hundred years ago America entered World War I, the bloodiest conflict the world had known. The battlefields are now buried under progress and gravestones, the combatants gone. But America's Doughboys are not forgotten.

The $700 billion defense policy bill just passed by Congress states that North Korea nuclear and missile tests “constitute a grave and imminent threat” to Asia-Pacific security and calls for expansion of radar systems and a “sequenced approach” to the defense of Hawaii.

The top commander of the U.S. military response pulled out last week, along with troops and helicopters, saying it was time to transition to the next phase of recovery. But the most vulnerable – among them the island’s aging veterans – are still overwhelmed.

Twenty-foot waves and winds near 50 mph were battering more than a dozen search-and-rescue ships from the United States, Britain, Brazil and Chile traversing the area where the ARA San Juan went missing on Wednesday off the coast of Patagonia, according to NPR.

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says the group is ready to withdraw its cadres from Iraq once the government in Baghdad declares victory against the Islamic State there.

President Donald Trump announced Monday the U.S. is putting North Korea's "murderous regime" on America's terrorism blacklist, despite questions about Pyongyang's support for international attacks beyond the assassination of its leader's half brother in February.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terror amid heightened nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Jay Sebring hated the uniformity and look of military-issue buzz haircuts. So he figured out a way to trim his own hair so it looked better but would still fit within regulations.

U.S. and Afghan warplanes bombed 10 Taliban-controlled opium production facilities in Helmand province Sunday in the first major use of new White House-approved authorities to target the insurgents’ revenue stream, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan said Monday.

The U.S. has used an F-22 Raptor for the first time in Afghanistan in strikes against opium producers, the military said Monday.

By the time a U.S. Army Special Forces team arrived in Tongo Tongo last month Islamist militants already wielded power and influence in the remote border village. For U.S. troops supporting Niger's military, that bond between the villagers and the fighters may prove difficult to break.

The U.S. national security interest is clear. Long-term Iranian control in Syrian areas liberated from the regime and ISIS would cause further instability, fuel extremism and prolong the crisis.

Putin is exploiting fissures and tensions that already existed, not creating them. If Americans decide that our country is better than Putin’s vision of it, we can make it so.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is forging ahead with a high-energy laser designed to shoot down drones, incoming rockets and mortar rounds and hopes to have a demonstration model ready by 2021, officials say.

There's a scene in "Lady Bird," this fall's remarkable coming-of-age movie by Greta Gerwig, where the title character, a complicated Sacramento 17-year-old encapsulated by Saoirse Ronan, finds herself in the dressing room of an off-price clothing store with her mother, Marion McPherson, who happens to be played by Laurie Metcalf.