The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts ...

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Some 50,000 people have been isolated by the flooding in New South Wales, after days of heavy rain. Four bodies have been ...

On Jan. 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was attacked and captured by North Korea, in what became known as the "Pueblo Incident." One ...

The academy in Emmitsburg, Md., is often described as the national war college for firefighting. It offers training that ...

A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of a private prison company that plans to use its troubled Leavenworth facility ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws ...

The project, known as EPIC City, has yet to break ground, but political leaders say this development could lead to religious ...

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. were killed in a shooting after attending an event a Jewish ...