Pack & Boots races to help Veterans Count

Racers are shown participating in a previous year's Pack & Boots race. This year's Pack & Boots 5K and 1-Mile Survival Run event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 4. Hundreds are expected to run, walk and enjoy the scenic views of Downtown Portsmouth on Wednesday, July 4, at the Sixth Annual Pack & Boots 5K and 1-Mile Survival Run.

Confusion, uncertainty at the border after Trump acts

The U.S. government wrestled with the ramifications Thursday of President Donald Trump's move to stop separating families at the border, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.

What’s changed after Trump’s immigration order: For families, the military and Congress

In signing an executive order Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he was ending the practice of separating children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. "We are keeping families together," he said.

Liberty University Trains Junior Air Force Cadets to Meet National…

This summer, 54 high school students in the U.S. Air Force Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps are training to become pilots at Liberty University. The training is part of a nationwide, $2.4 million USAF effort to address the pilot shortage and to increase diversity in the aviation industry.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago visits cost Coast Guard nearly $20M

Records obtained by USA TODAY include only the Coast Guard's extra costs for 16 trips to South Florida since his inauguration in January 2017 Trump's Mar-a-Lago visits cost Coast Guard nearly $20M Records obtained by USA TODAY include only the Coast Guard's extra costs for 16 trips to South Florida since his inauguration in January 2017 Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2taFm5U A U.S. Coast Guard boat passes in front of the Mar-a-Lago Resort where President Donald Trump stays occasionally on weekends.

In reversal, Baker not sending flight crew to southern border

In a sudden reversal, Gov. Charlie Baker's administration on Monday canceled its plan to send Massachusetts National Guard members and equipment to the southwestern U.S. border in light of the federal government's "inhumane" practice of separating undocumented children from their families, the governor's office said. Baker announced on June 1 that he would send a UH-72 Lakota helicopter and two military analysts to pilot the chopper to the southwestern border by the end of the month in support of President Donald Trump's mission to curb illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.

India, Japan, US warships sail together in Philippine Sea

India, Japan, and United States navy warships have sailed together in Philippine Sea off the coast of Guam on June 14 as part of exercise Malabar 2018. Philippine Sea is bordered by the Philippine archipelago on the southwest; Halmahera, Morotai, Palau, Yap, and Ulithi on the southeast; the Marianas, including Guam, Saipan, and Tinian, on the east; the Bonin and Iwo Jima on the northeast; the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu on the north; the Ryukyu Islands on the northwest; and Taiwan in the west.

‘Spice’ users slumped in Bridgend town centre is latest proof of devastating blight on UK

'I was heartbroken to read her post, but did NOT sexually assault Chloe Dykstra': Chris Hardwick denies attacking former girlfriend, after the actress claimed an ex abused her and sent her spiraling into anorexia 'All the terrorists are in Paris' and '25 million Mexicans' would put Shinzo Abe out of office: What Trump told a stunned room of world leaders at the G7 summit Cash-strapped NYC cabbie becomes the SIXTH taxi driver to commit suicide in just eight months, after telling a friend 'he didn't know how to survive' amid competition from Uber and Lyft White Missouri waitress, 20, loses her job and is booted from the Air Force after she was caught bragging in a Snapchat video about going 'n****r-hunting' Kesha claims she has not been paid album royalties due to Dr Luke feud and alleges the music producer HIMSELF leaked text about Katy Perry 'rape' Prosecutors seek the death penalty for ... (more)

Military news

U.S. Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Tristan G. Maness graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills.

Peter Lucas: Give Trump credit. Our boys are finally coming home

Korea, the long-forgotten war fought by a long-forgotten generation, is, thanks to President Donald Trump, finally back on the front burner. As part of the denuclearization deal, the North Korean leader committed to the recovery and repatriation of the remains of some 6,000 U.S. soldiers killed in North Korea.

Senators demand feds release Wright AFB groundwater toxicology study

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, are among a bipartisan group of 10 senators who have demanded the Trump administration release a toxicology study that could recommend lower threshold advisories for exposure to chemicals found in groundwater at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other installations across the country. The senators wrote in the June 8 letter they had "deep concerns" with media reports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had blocked the results of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services chemical pollution study that reportedly showed lower thresholds of the contaminants could pose a hazard to human health.

Pizza delivery man facing deportation draws stay, support of leaders

Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined the chorus of New York officials calling for the release of an Ecuadorian native detained while delivering pizza at a Brooklyn Army base after his impending deportation was halted, at least for now, by a federal judge. In this undated family photo provided by Sandra Chica, Pablo Villavicencio poses with his two daughters, Luciana, left, and Antonia.