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Well-educated Army recruits in the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program are finding themselves sidelined and under suspicion, many stalled wherever they were when the rules changed in late 2016.

Since 2009, the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program has attracted 10,000 foreign-born recruits with language and medical skills to fill a recruitment and talent gap in the Army. In exchange, these mostly 30-somethings were offered the promise of professional advancement and a fast track to citizenship.

The baseball season has only just begun but we already have the biggest story of the year: Los Angeles Angels rookie phenom Shohei Ohtani, who has the potential to completely redefine the definition of MVP.

The world's largest psychiatric couch was open for business again Sunday at the Masters. They call it Augusta National Golf Club, but it's really the place where, every spring, a group of the world's greatest golfers lay themselves bare on a course that blends totally fair tests of talent with crucial instances of pure dumb luck.

The old man who is the oldest UNC-Chapel Hill basketball and baseball player alive let go of his walker and took a seat in front of Silent Sam on Sunday.

When Scottie Pippen says the comparison between Michael Jordan and LeBron James “shouldn’t ever be made” just remember that Pippen knows better than anyone where his bread was buttered.

Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of "geopolitical loneliness," a top adviser to President Vladimir Putin warned in a magazine article released Monday.

The director of the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington was reassigned Monday amid ongoing problems at the hospital and an investigation into whether his appointment broke federal protocols.

The leader of Gaza's ruling Hamas group and Israel's prime minister staked out tough positions Monday, making de-escalation on the Israel-Gaza border in the near future unlikely.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday that 225 members of the state's National Guard were heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to support President Donald Trump's call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill, and her husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, named their daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey after Bowlsbey's great aunt, who was an Army nurse during World War II.

The Army pilots killed Friday when their AH-64E Apache helicopter crashed in Kentucky were a 17-year veteran of the service and a Marine-turned-Army aviator, according to military officials.

News of an alleged gas attack against civilians in Syria marks the latest grim chapter in fighting that entered its eighth year in March.

To answer God's call to holiness, Christians must care for the poor, the sick and the immigrant just as they care for preventing abortion, Pope Francis wrote in his latest major guidance to the Catholic Church, published on Monday.

The sport of tennis is inherently dramatic, at once meditative and explosive, a study in individual struggle and triumph. Personality tics and habits under extreme pressure and stress are laid bare for the whole world to inspect, with all eyes focused on the court. The rivalry of BjBorg and John McEnroe, which came to a head at the 1980 Wimbledon final, pitted perfection against passion and captivated the world. Janus Metz’s film, “Borg vs. McEnroe,” following the events leading up to the match,... Читать дальше...

A Belgian man never forgot seeing an American B-24 bomber succumb to enemy fire and crash in a field near his family’s farm on Christmas Day 1944.

Carel Jan van Oss joined the Dutch Resistance in World War II quite by chance. He only intended to help some girls he knew by making fake identity cards for them.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded contrite in prepared congressional remarks and said Facebook didn't do enough to prevent its tools from being used for harm.

With defense budgets curtailed in recent years, this presents a distinct opportunity for the private sector to work in tandem with DOD to advance important conservation efforts.

President Donald Trump has never been one to stick to a script, but that abandoned speech in West Virginia illustrates a new phase in Trump's presidency. He is increasingly at odds with his staff — and growing wise to their tactics.

Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on a Syrian air base that reportedly killed 14 people, including three Iranians, while international condemnation grew over a suspected poison gas attack over the weekend that was said to be carried out by the Syrian government.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will face tough questions from Democrats and Republicans during two days of congressional hearings this week, even as his company has taken steps that may defuse some of their frustration.

Any urgency to “advance our values and defend our way of life,” which McMaster called essential, is absent from this White House.

Is there a problem with space-based command and control, warfighter footing, and funding for space assets? You bet, but not within the Air Force.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy welcomed home on Sunday nearly 400 Connecticut airmen and women from southwest Asia, bringing to a close the largest single deployment of Connecticut National Guard troops since 2011.