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Leaders back Navy firing of ship captain; sailors cheer him

U.S. defense leaders are backing the Navy's decision to fire the ship captain who sought help for his cornonavirus-stricken ...

Navy fires captain who sought help for virus-stricken ship

The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship was fired by Navy ...

Extremists see global chaos from virus as an opportunity

Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval ...

Nearly 3,000 sailors to leave carrier amid virus outbreak

Nearly 3,000 sailors aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier where the coronavirus has spread will be taken off the ship by Friday, ...

Call for virus volunteers yields army of health care workers

The work is exhausting and dangerous, the situation bleak. But an army of health care workers heeded New York’s call for help ...

US warship captain seeks crew isolation as virus spreads

The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus is asking for permission to isolate ...

Trump boosts virus aid, warns governors to be 'appreciative'

After days of desperate pleas from the nation’s governors, President Donald Trump took a round of steps to expand the federal ...

'Choppy waters' await Navy as virus strikes aircraft carrier

The Navy, the military service hit hardest by the coronavirus, scrambled to contain its first at-sea outbreak, with at least ...

US indicts Venezuela's Maduro on narcoterrorism charges

Nicolás Maduro effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist ...

Virus takes toll on US military as it tries to aid civilians

The coronavirus is taking a growing toll on the U.S. military, and commanders and senior officials are bracing for worse.

In pandemic, rumors of martial law fly despite reassurances

Millions of Americans have been ordered to stay home. Businesses and schools are shuttered. And National Guard units have ...

3 US sailors on aircraft carrier test positive

The Navy says three sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for coronavirus. The aircraft carrier at ...

Arizona death prompts warning against self-medication

A Phoenix-area man has died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple took chloroquine phosphate, an additive ...

Governors urge feds for more funding, testing, equipment

The nation's governors kept pressing the federal government for supplies and economic aid to battle the new coronavirus in ...

Governor calls on youth to take shelter-in-place seriously

Most Californians stayed at home on a Saturday that was unlike any its 40 million residents had ever seen before. Less than ...

The Latest: Beijing screening overseas flights for virus

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 275,000 people and killed more than 11,300. The COVID-19 ...

Returning troops denied water, bathrooms under quarantine

It wasn’t the welcome home that U.S. soldiers expected when they returned from war zones in the Middle East in the past week.

Army closing recruiting stations, moves effort online

The Army on Friday became the first military service to announce it is shutting down all of its recruiting stations around ...

Governors raise alarm as coronavirus taxes health systems

In a day of dizzying developments, governors across the U.S. sounded a perilous alarm about the rapid spread of the new ...

US military's role in response to virus outbreak is growing

The Pentagon's role in responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States began to rapidly expand Wednesday as ...