New Zealand air force rescues 3 Americans from icy Antarctica station
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New Zealand’s air force carried out a nearly 20-hour medical evacuation to rescue three Americans from Antarctica, calling it a high-risk mission conducted in freezing temperatures and total darkness. The U.S. National Science Foundation requested the evacuation...
Fort Stewart rapid response emergency policies, protocols helped save lives
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Following a shooting that wounded five soldiers at Fort Stewart on Wednesday, a former public safety director at the Georgia military installation outlined the post’s emergency response and weapons safety protocols, as officials praised fellow troops who...
VA severs ties with most federal unions, terminating worker contracts
Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday announced plans to terminate nearly all of its collective bargaining contracts with federal unions, upending employment agreements for hundreds of thousands of department workers. AFGE alone represents about 300,000 employees working for VA. About 80% of the department’s roughly 450,000-person...
Texas soldier arrested for sharing M1A2 Abrams tank data with Russia
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A U.S. Army soldier in Texas with a top security clearance has been charged with handing over sensitive information about the military’s main battle tank in exchange for Russian citizenship. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, was arrested Wednesday...
Paul Newman, the Pacific and the bomb that changed the world
On Aug. 6, 1945, a 19-year-old U.S. sailor was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Hollandia about 500 miles off the coast of Japan when he learned the U.S. had just obliterated Hiroshima with a new “super-weapon” — an atomic bomb with the force of 20,000...
Army sergeant accused of shooting 5 soldiers at Fort Stewart
Editor’s note: This is a developing story. FORT STEWART, Ga. — A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one of the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief lockdown, officials said. Few details were immediately...
Quornelius Radford is accused of shooting 5 soldiers at Georgia’s Fort Stewart
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of shooting five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia on Wednesday morning has been identified as U.S. Army Sergeant Quornelius Radford. The soldiers were shot in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) area...
Senate bill seeks to protect shipbuilding jobs from workforce cuts
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to shield America’s public shipyards from federal hiring freezes and mass layoffs as the Trump administration has sought to shrink the federal civilian workforce. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., along with Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Susan Collins,...
Air Force moves F-16s closer to North Korea in new ‘super squadron’
The U.S. Air Force has begun transferring F-16 Fighting Falcon warplanes from South Korea’s Kunsan Air Base to Osan Air Base, located about 80 miles closer to the North Korean border. The transfer, which began July 31, is in preparation for the Air Force’s “super...
Defense leaders to return Confederate memorial to Arlington Cemetery
The news came just one day after the National Park Service unveiled plans to rebuild a statue commemorating Albert Pike, a Confederate brigadier general, just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The Arlington National Cemetery sculpture — made by Moses Ezekiel, a Confederate veteran...
