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"We are Customs and Border Protection," says lead singer Manuel Maldonado, putting down his accordion, a pistol holstered in his belt. "Sí, somos de a deveras." ("Yes, we are real.") Federal agents are trying to strike a balance between enforcing immigration law and not alienating the communities where they operate.

A chief in charge of training watch standers on the USS John S. McCain, which collided with a commercial tanker in the Straits of Singapore, pleaded guilty Thursday to dereliction of duty and acknowledged his role in the deaths of 10 sailors last year.

Izabella Salas last saw her mother when she dropped her off for her first day of school in the fall. "We're going to spend a few days in town, and then we're going to Disney World," Staff Sgt. Karla Lopez said. Then Lopez heads back to Turkey.

Commissaries across Europe have pulled thousands of pounds of ground beef from their shelves and issued a recall after metal was found in a package in Germany.

Cedar Point Public Works Supervisor Don Redfearn was the architect and brick mason who constructed the original monument. He said the monument was constructed to honor the vets who live around the area.

A 17-year U.S. effort designed to pacify large parts of Afghanistan has “mostly failed” due to lack of coordination between civilian agencies and the military, the Special Inspector General for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan said in a report released Thursday.

North Korea claimed Thursday that it had destroyed its nuclear testing site, setting off explosions to collapse underground tunnels where it had detonated six increasingly large bombs over 11 years.

"You have to stand proudly for the national anthem," President Donald Trump said. "Or you shouldn't be playing, you shouldn't be there, maybe you shouldn't be in the country."

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is putting up $10 million to encourage launch firms to get faster and nimbler about traveling to space. For the Department of Defense, space is now considered a contested domain.

The USS Blue Ridge lit its boilers for the first time in two years this week, signifying a big step toward bringing the Navy’s oldest deployable warship back to sailing condition.

Iran is ramping up support to the Taliban in retaliation against President Donald Trump's decision to scrap a historic nuclear deal, Afghan officials said, and the battle for a strategic Afghan city points to that blowback.

Detailed analysis of video and photos has unequivocally established that the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine nearly four years ago came from a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday.

"We're going to see. I'd like to have it done immediately," Trump said on "Fox & Friends" on Fox News. "But, you know, physically, a phase-in may be a little bit necessary, we will have to do a rapid phase in, but I'd like to see it done at one time."

The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North's sparsely populated northeast were centered on three tunnels into the underground site and a number of observation towers in the surrounding area.

Lt. Col. Rafael A. Candelario II and Sgt. Maj. Marcus A. Chestnut of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion were removed.

The improvements are among several planned for women’s body armor outlined in a Marine Corps Systems Command presentation recently provided to Stars and Stripes.

The Air Force may return as many as 1,000 retired pilots, combat systems officers and air battle managers to active duty for up to 48 months under a major expansion of a voluntary recall program.

It takes a lot to scare Gen. Lori Robinson, who has led the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command through one of the busiest times. But, what's happening Thursday at Peterson Air Force Base is something she finds daunting, if not terrifying: retirement.

The Sigonella Jaguars have seen enough of Alconbury and senior striker Isabel Black.

By definition, a brigand is a member of a traveling gang that extracts treasure through overwhelming force.

The 2018 Kaiserslautern Raiders are not what’s left of a championship team. They are a championship team in their own right.

For the second consecutive year, the Stuttgart Panthers found themselves selecting five shooters and preparing their goalie. This time, they came out winners.

A hydraulic system malfunction forced the Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15 Eagle to land at Kadena Air Base at about 8:40 a.m., according to a Japan Air Self-Defense Force spokesman.

The heightened rhetoric underscores fears that the two sides are far apart in their goals for upcoming talks. Just over two weeks remain before the first-ever summit between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president.

The heightened rhetoric underscores fears that the two sides are far apart in their goals for talks just over two weeks before the summit is to take place. It would be the first-ever summit between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president.