WASHINGTON– The U.S. Navy is taking a major step to restrict press access to information about service members by no longer publishing information about any sailor’s service history, information the service has provided for free for decades. The move, which officials say is being driven by heightened security threats and harassment concerns, comes amid a
WASHINGTON– The US military on Tuesday identified a soldier who died while disarming an Iranian drone in Iraq as a 30-year-old man from North Carolina. The Army said it was investigating the death of Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville during a controlled detonation Sunday at an air base in Irbil, northern Iraq. Swinton will
PHOENIX — As head of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Andy Biggs was one of the Republican Party’s toughest fighters in Washington, defending President Donald Trump’s agenda while frustrating establishment leaders. U.S. Rep. David Schweikert says such uncompromising tactics are a losing recipe in Arizona, where Republicans have seen
MIAMI– A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that cheered, sang and raised their phones in the air to take
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The US military launched airstrikes on Sunday against Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the killing of US troops in Jordan, further widening the crossfire between the nations as they fight over the Strait of Hormuz. The attacks, now part of a week-long campaign in which Iran has attacked
A week after the United States and Iran signed a preliminary agreement aimed at ending the war, an Iranian drone crashed into a cargo ship sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were no casualties or major damage, but the June 25 attack set off a chain of hostilities that would put the two countries