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China says Xiaomi removal from U.S. blacklist "beneficial"

China’s commerce ministry on Thursday welcomed the removal of Xiaomi Corp. from a U.S. government blacklist, a day after the ...

Officials: Tiny uptick in 2020 military sex assault reports

Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely ...

Takeaways: Partisan discord instead of Jan. 6 answers

A House hearing about what went wrong in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege frequently spiraled into partisan shouting matches on ...

Hearing on Jan. 6 violence exposes stark partisan divisions

Republicans sought to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 insurrection during a rancorous congressional hearing Wednesday, ...

Officials give Congress few answers on Afghanistan pullout

Defense officials had few solid answers Wednesday as frustrated lawmakers sought details on how the United States will keep ...

The Latest: Hearing on Capitol riot wraps; little new info

The Latest on congressional testimony about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot (all times local): 3:20 p.m. A House hearing on the ...

Trump defense chief pressed on Jan 6 riot response

Democrats on a House oversight committee strongly pressed former acting defense chief Christopher Miller about the Pentagon's ...

Trump officials defend their Capitol riot actions

Two senior Trump administration officials defended their actions during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in testimony ...

Trump official defends Jan. 6 military response

President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots will defend the Pentagon's response to the ...

Pentagon chief during Jan. 6 riot defends military response

President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots plans to tell Congress that he was ...

Decision on Minuteman to shape US nuclear policy for decades

For 50 years the Minuteman missile has been armed and ready, day and night, for nuclear war on a moment's notice. It has ...

Iran rejects US claim that speedboats sparked encounter

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday rejected the U.S. Navy's claim that fast-approaching Iranian speedboats in the ...

Pentagon reconsidering huge JEDI cloud-computing contract

The Pentagon is reconsidering how to make a massive shift to cloud computing, officials said Monday, suggesting it could ...

Watchdog says Capitol Police deficient at monitoring threats

The Capitol Police force was hobbled by inadequate intelligence gathering ahead of the Jan. 6 siege, the department's ...

US ship fires warning shots in encounter with Iranian boats

A group of 13 armed speedboats of Iran's Revolutionary Guard made “unsafe and unprofessional” high-speed maneuvers toward U.S

Flight 93 families hope heroism award helps keep story alive

Serene, stark and seemingly in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service memorial to the people who ...

Former acting Defense chief to testify on Jan. 6 response

Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon's role in responding ...

China discounts possibility of harm from falling rocket

China says the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station will mostly burn ...

US sends more warplanes to protect pullout from Afghanistan

The United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a ...

Austin: US troop withdrawal going as planned

The U.S. top military leaders say that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is going "according to plan" and ...