New Hampshire Hosts Commissioning of USS Manchester
The USS Manchester was commissioned May 26 at the N.H. Port Authority in Portsmouth. It is now on "active duty" in the U.S. Navy.
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This day in history, May 27, 2018
On May 27, 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. O'Brien, upheld the conviction of David O'Brien for destroying his draft card outside a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.
LETTERS: Hard to equal in the future; metal detectors won’t help
The Air Force Thunderbirds practice on the day before graduation on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Over the past few weeks, Colorado Springs has been honored to have been visited by a highly distinguished group of military dignitaries and aircraft.
It’s a bird… it’s a plane … it’s the Civil Air Patrol
Ready to take their first flights in the Civil Air Patrol, Cadet Lauren Welch and Cadet Airman Cameron Shultz were all smiles and excited to take to the skies with Civil Air Patrol Mission Pilot Capt. Paul Krekorian.
Iran denies any of its troops killed in suspected Israeli strike in Syria
Military official dismisses report that 9 Iranians among 21 killed in Thursday raid on alleged Hezbollah weapons depot as 'a sheer lie' Iran on Saturday denied any of its troops were killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Syria, after a report said nine Iranians were among the dead. Reports that Iranians were killed in Thursday's strike are "a sheer lie and quite baseless," the official IRNA news agency quoted an unnamed military official as saying.
New push to defend N.J.’s big military base from any efforts to shut it down
Deliveries of new refueling tankers to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst would proceed as planned and the base itself would be protected from any efforts to close military facilities under legislation that passed the House Thursday. The annual National Defense Authorization Act , which sets Congress' defense priorities for the 12 months beginning Oct. 1, passed, 351-66, in the final House vote before the week-long Memorial Day recess.
U.S. Coast Guard’s long history of service in New York
More than a dozen Navy and Coast Guard ships took part in a 30-year tradition this week, parading through New York Harbor for Fleet Week . The nautical display lasts just a few days, but the U.S. Coast Guard patrols the waterways of New York all year long, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
DeGlopper Park ready for first Memorial Day
Students from Veronica Connor Middle School worked after school cleaning up the DeGlopper Memorial in the center of town last week. Students from Connor Middle School were some of the volunteers who pitched in to tidy up DeGlopper Park, located at the intersection of Grand Island Boulevard and Baseline Road.
A work in progress for Alexa Foundation: Move to Buffalo has brought…
The event is an undertaking of the It Happened to Alexa Foundation. Preparations for the 2018 version of GCR - much like the relocation of the foundation itself - remain a work in progress from Lewiston to Buffalo.
Evidence Shows President John F. Kennedy Learned to Fly at…
Just in Time for the 101st Anniversary of Kennedy's Birthday on May 29, Flight Logs and Other Data Reveals JFK flew solo in just ten days at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II. New documents reveal U.S. President John F. Kennedy, learned to fly at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II.
Sen. Schumer voices opposition to proposed waste-to-energy incinerator
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer said that he's opposed to the planned waste-to-energy incinerator plant in Seneca County. Senator Schumer says the proposed facility by Circular Ener-G would be bad for the regional economy, and it would put the public's health at risk.
How to make billions of dollars vanish in Afghan corruption
This June 10, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter provides security from above while CH-47 Chinooks drop off supplies to U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. After nearly 17 years of war Afghanistan, it is apparent our nation-building efforts there have failed and will continue to fail.
Maritime organization approves Bering Strait shipping routes
In this July 14, 2017 file photo, The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails past the American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and behind it, the Russian island of Big Diomede, separated by the International Date Line on the Bering Strait. The International Maritime Organization has approved two-way shipping routes into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait.
Coast Guard probes yacht crash that ended high school prom
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating Thursday night's Hudson River yacht collision which led to an abrupt end to the Weehawken High School prom. The school's prom was just getting underway aboard the Cornucopia Destiny, an 115-foot yacht operated by Cornucopia Cruise Line, when the vessel crashed into another yacht docked at the 14th Street pier in Hoboken.
Tri-Cities won’t get to improve its shorelines this year
Tri-City dreams of regaining control over 34 miles of Columbia Shoreline are on hold. The Congressional Budget Office raised questions about the proposed transfer, preventing it from being included in the National Defense Authorization Act passed Thursday in the House.
Hawaii helicopter evacuation readied as new lava stream hits ocean
A third lava flow from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano streamed into the ocean on Thursday as U.S. Marines Corps helicopters stood by to evacuate a Big Island community should molten rock or huge cracks block its final escape route. Six huge fissures sent rivers of molten rock through a blackened, volcanic wilderness that was once jungle, farmland and rural homes.
From Civil War to WWI: Fifty years of progress
World War I was the first all-out war fought on the ground, in the air, on the seas and under the seas.
The Latest: Pompeo hopeful N. Korea talks will take place
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to New York to discuss immigration policy, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump will hold a roundtable discussion on Long Island on illegal immigration and gang violence that the White House is calling a "national call to action for legislative policy changes."
Air Force trainer jet crashes in Mississippi; 2 eject safely
In this file photo, T-38C Talon jets from the 435th Fighter Training Squadron fly away from San Antonio on a training mission Thursday Sept. 15, 2016.
Pentagon kicks Chinese navy out of massive maritime wargame in the Pacific
U.S. military aircraft sit on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier anchors off Manila, Philippines, for a five-day port call along with guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. U.S. Lt.