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By striking down tough abortion restrictions in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court has emboldened abortion-rights activists nationwide and imperiled a range of anti-abortion laws in numerous states. By striking down tough abortion restrictions in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court has emboldened abortion-rights activists nationwide and imperiled a range of anti-abortion laws in numerous states.
U.S.and China warships to participate in massive Pacific war games 26-nation exercises come amid territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/28XQOVt Crew members wait to service an F/A 18 Super Hornet during flight operations aboard the USS John C. Stennis during a joint US-India-Japan naval exercise in the Philippine Sea.
U.S. Coast Guard swabs, center, are guided by Coast Guard cadets, left and right, as they recite phrases from the cadet handbook before swearing-in ceremonies, Monday, June 27, 2016, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn. Forty years after military service academies opened their doors to women, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is marking the milestone Monday at its annual reporting-in day, when it welcomes a class with a record 38 percent female cadets.
Gary J. Byrne has devoted his life, and risked it, to serve his country - as a member of the US Air Force, a uniformed White House Secret Service officer, and a federal air marshal. And he believes it is his patriotic duty to do anything he can to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.
Readers express opinions on self-defense, drafting women, spiritual needsThe Senate recently passed S 2943, the National Defense Authorization Act, which currently includes a provision forcing young women to sign up for the Selective Service, making them eligible for a future military draft.Women and men have equal natural rights, but equality ... (more)
Three people were killed after a boat carrying seven passengers capsized off the Catalina Island coast Saturday morning, officials said. The overturned boat was reported at 9:30 a.m. near Salta Verde Point on the backside of Catalina, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Services for Leonard Yonker, 88, of Milroy, are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Milroy. Burial will take place at a later date in Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
The Department of Defense has given permission for "Doc," the Wichita-built B-29 bomber, to use a runway at McConnell Air Force Base for ground testing, essentially clearing a path for its first flight. The nonprofit group, Doc's Friends, has been restoring the vintage bomber since it came to Wichita in pieces in 2000.
Then Cmdr. Kyle Moses salutes during a change of command ceremony at Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command in Point Loma, Calif., on July 27, 2012.
An ailing crewmember aboard the fishing vessel Seafreeze Alaska was medevaced approximately 195 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska, Thursday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, deployed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett, hoisted the 21-year-old man, who reportedly lost consciousness for 45 minutes, and transferred him to awaiting Guardian Flight emergency medical personnel in Cold Bay.
A 2005 Emma Willard School graduate and New Britain, Connecticut native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided missile destroyer, USS Rafael Peralta. is a hosptial corpsman aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer operating out of Bath, Maine.
Authorities are stepping up patrols of Ohio boating locations in an effort to reduce alcohol- and drug-related accidents and deaths. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is taking part in the national Operation Dry Water campaign by increasing patrols, checkpoints and breathalyzer tests on waterways across the state through Sunday.
General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory announce Thursday, June 23, 2016, they are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into a next-generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Hydrogen fuel cells convert high-energy hydrogen efficiently into electricity, resulting in vehicles with greater range and endurance than those powered with batteries.
Following an investigation, the U.S. Marine Corps announced Thursday that it had misidentified one of the six men in the famous 1945 World War II photo of the flag raising in Iwo Jima. After 70 years, a Pulitzer Prize, a bestselling book and a feature film on the photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal, the identity of one of the flag-raisers was called into question.
There is something quite predictable about The New York Times article which presents a new twist on one of the most iconic images in history--Joe Rosenthal's 1945 photograph of Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. Here's the lede from reporter Michael S. Schmidt, who has covered military topics for many years, and quite frankly, should know better: "An internal investigation by the Marine Corps has concluded that for more than 70 years it wrongly identified one of the men in the iconic photograph of the flag being raised over Iwo Jima during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ."
July 4 fireworks at US bases in Japan are CANCELLED after former Marine was accused of raping and murdering a local Okinawa woman There will be no Fourth of July fireworks for American troops in Japan this year because of restrictions imposed after a former U.S. Marine was accused of raping and murdering a woman on Okinawa. U.S. Forces in Japan said Thursday that 'no U.S. installations in Japan will celebrate the Fourth of July holiday with fireworks displays or concerts' to demonstrate respect for Okinawan residents.
This photo made available by the U.S. Coast Guard shows personal items that were recovered within a debris field off the coast of Sanibel, Fla., Wednesday, June 22, 2016. The personal items are believed to belong to a father and his three teenage children who were reported missing while they were aboard a sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico.