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It was an unexpected burst of glory, and the 1,600 students at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood were basking in it Friday.

The long and divisive war in Iraq is about to resonate with presidential candidates in a way not seen so far in the campaign: The sons of both vice presidential nominees are assigned to go there soon.

U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of ...

Nearly two dozen Arizona National Guardsmen said goodbye to their families Friday morning as they left for deployment to Iraq.

An American-born soldier who served in the US Navy before joining the British Army has been named as the latest fatality in Afghanistan.

A US Navy ship has found the wreckage of a Philippine air force troop transport plane which crashed at sea last month with the loss of all nine crew, the Philippine armed forces said on Friday.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has crashed in waters five miles south of Honolulu, and officials say three crewmembers have been recovered and one remains missing. Officials aren't releasing the recovered crewmembers' conditions.

A Guard spokesman says the helicopter crashed at 8:15 p.m. Thursday while the helicopter's crew was conducting search and rescue drills.

The U.S. Embassy says the flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet is to arrive in the Georgian port of Poti on Friday.

The Mount Whitney is the first US naval ship to travel to the port since Georgia fought a short war with Russia last month. Poti was bombed by Russian forces and several Georgian ships were sunk.

U.S. officials say the ship is bringing humanitarian aid for Georgians.

Russia, however, is extremely wary about the presence of U.S. and NATO ships in the Black Sea region. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has vowed Russia will respond to the increased Western naval presence in the sea.

Charleston Air Force Base evacuated 11 C-17 transport planes to bases in Ohio and Missouri as Tropical Storm Hanna heads toward the U.S. coast.

President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year contrary to expectations that the improved security in Iraq would allow for quicker cuts, ...

Tennessee National Guard soldiers on their way to Mississippi for annual training were detoured to help out in the recovery of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Gustav.

A judge could decide today whether to delay the trial of five men accused of planning an attack on soldiers at Fort Dix.

Coastal residents moved boats and booked inland hotel rooms while National Guard troops prepared to deploy along the Southeastern coast as Tropical Storm Hanna plowed through the Atlantic on a shifting track ...

A high-ranking Air Force official on Wednesday pressed the Pentagon to expedite the award of a disputed $35 billion contract for new aerial refueling tankers so the service can retire Eisenhower-era aircraft.

A jury Wednesday found San Diego Gas & Electric negligent in the deaths of four Marines who were killed when their helicopter hit an unlit utility tower on Camp Pendleton in 2004.

The Air Force said Wednesday it has canceled plans for a new combat training site and 800 permanent jobs that bases in Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana were competing for.

A federal jury convicted a retired University of Tennesseeprofessor Wednesday of passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign research assistants from China and Iran.

Russia closed its embassy in Georgia and halted consular operations after Georgia severed diplomatic ties following last month's war, the Russian consul said Wednesday.

A U.S. Navy ship loaded with humanitarian aid, meanwhile, steamed through the Dardanelles on its way to Georgia _ a day after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin complained that too many NATO ships were sailing the Black Sea and promised a Russian response.

The diplomatic suspension means no new applications for Russian entry visas will be accepted, a blow to Georgians who have relatives in Russia or other ties there. Hundreds of thousands of Georgians live in Russia, and many ethnic Georgians in Russia are Russian citizens.

A British computer expert accused of hacking into American military systems was in a "distraught" state as he awaited extradition to the US, his family and friends said.

The federal government sued the Boeing Co. on Tuesday for allegedly inflating the prices of B-1 bomber equipment sold to the Air Force.