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Pentagon: Slow-moving Hurricane Florence to make rescues challenging in flood zones
The expected high winds and slow movement of Hurricane Florence as it comes ashore will make rescue efforts challenging in the flooded areas, top Pentagon leaders said Thursday as the massive storm edged into the Carolinas. Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, head of U.S. ...
Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and somber tributes as President Donald Trump hailed "the moment when America fought back" on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims' relatives said prayers for their ...
U.S. President Donald Trump spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that — had it been sent — North Korea would have read as a sign of an imminent U.S. attack, journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview that aired Sunday. Woodward, whose new book ...
U.S. House passes $716 billion defense bill targeting Chinese investments, tech
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $716 billion defense authorization bill that aims to rein in China's investments in the United States and prohibits the U.S. government from using technology from major Chinese telecommunications firms. The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization ...
U.S. lawmakers want Google to rethink links to China's Huawei, seen as security threat
A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday to reconsider its work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., which they described as a security threat. In a letter to Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, the lawmakers said ...
A comprehensive probe into last year's assault of U.S. and local forces in Niger uncovered a series of avoidable blunders leading up to the deadly attack, the Pentagon said Thursday. Four American soldiers and four Nigerien partners were killed in the Oct. 4 ambush, when ...
Lockheed resumes F-35 jet deliveries to Pentagon after deal to cover production error costs
The U.S. Department of Defense resumed accepting F-35 jet deliveries from Lockheed Martin Corp. last week after reaching an agreement on covering the costs to fix a production error, the Pentagon said Monday. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The cost of the fix ...
Assad still has 'limited' chemical weapons capability: Pentagon
The Syrian regime remains able to conduct chemical attacks, though only at a limited level, the Pentagon said Thursday following last week's international cruise missile strikes on chemical targets. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, director of the U.S. military's Joint Staff, said Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime ...
Trump wants to 'get out' of Syria even as advisers warn war with Islamic State is far from over
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he expects to decide "very quickly" whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and "we've almost completed that task." A decision by Trump to withdraw from ...
After vowing Mexico will pay for it, Trump turns to Pentagon about funding border wall
U.S. President Donald Trump talked with his defense secretary on Thursday to discuss how the military budget might fund the construction of a wall on the Mexican frontier. The United States is testing prototype sections of a 30-foot-high (9-meter) wall to be built along sections ...
Nearly a week after the Pentagon publicly posted its new recommended policy on transgender troops, the department's chief spokeswoman refused to clarify portions of the memo or settle confusion about whether service members who have already transitioned from one gender to another would be ...
Russia 'complicit' in Assad atrocities by violating truce: Pentagon
Russia is "complicit" in the atrocities perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar Assad because of its "deliberate" choice to violate the terms of a cease-fire in besieged eastern Ghouta, the Pentagon said Thursday. Syria's government has recaptured half of the shrinking rebel enclave with air strikes ...
