U.S. reshaping budget to account for Russian military threat
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Russia’s increasing military activities around the world have unsettled top U.S. military officials, who say they are reshaping their budget plans to better address what they now consider to be the most pressing threat t…
Gunman charged after threatening DC restaurant hit by fake news
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man who took a rifle into a Washington pizza restaurant on Sunday “to self-investigate” a fake news report that it was operating a child abuse ring has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, police in the U.S. capit…
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin to stay in New Zealand until lungs clear
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, has been advised by doctors to stay in New Zealand until fluid from his lungs clears, days after he was evacuated from the South Pole as his condition worsene…
Accused Charleston gunman asks judge to reinstate defense team
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The avowed white supremacist accused of killing nine black people at an historic South Carolina church told a federal judge on Sunday that he no longer wished to represent himself during the “guilt” phase of his murder tria…
Guantanamo detainee released to Cabo Verde
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department on Sunday announced that a long-held inmate at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, had been transferred to the government of Cabo Verde.
Sense of duty draws U.S. veterans to Dakota pipeline protest
CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – In the back reaches of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp, U.S. military veterans, armed with saws, hammers and other tools, are quietly building barracks, an infirmary and a mess hall.
California warehouse fire kills at least nine at dance party
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – A fire that roared through a warehouse dance party in Oakland, California, killed more than nine people and left at least two dozen others missing and feared dead inside the gutted building, officials said on Saturday, as an…
Pentagon arms buyer ‘hopeful’ that Lockheed F-35 block buy will proceed
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s chief arms buyer, said on Saturday he was hopeful that a proposed three-year block buy of Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, expected to generate large savings, would go ahead.”I can’t …
U.S. Navy aims to buy more Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets: source
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy plans to divest its older model Boeing Co F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets in coming years and hopes to buy dozens of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets to deal with a shortfall of strike fighters aboard its carriers, a Na…
U.S. veterans, tribe elders join forces in pipeline protest
CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – U.S. military veterans spoke with tribal leaders on Saturday about their shared interest in blocking a multibillion-dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation, with as many as 3,500 veterans joining protest…
