Sgt. Michael Verardo honored as hero at North Carolina funeral
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Retired Army Sgt. Michael Verardo, one of America’s most catastrophically wounded post-9/11 veterans, was laid to rest Tuesday with full military honors at Weddington Methodist Church in North Carolina. Family, friends, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division...
Podcast ‘500 Letters to Nana’ explores 1 soldier’s personal war
“Dear Feloma, Arrived safely and just got done eating supper. So far, I don’t like it at all.” And with that letter, dated Aug. 19, 1943, Donald Fiorini’s war began. Drafted in July of that year, Fiorini was to see and participate in intense combat...
Rubio says US military strikes on drug smugglers ‘will happen again’
President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels. Asked why the military...
DC residents take to the streets Labor Day weekend to protest Trump admin
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Pentagon cuts back F-35 upgrades to slow schedule slips: Auditors
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling back its ambitions for a slate of upgrades called Block 4, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday, as the aircraft struggles with production delays, cost overruns and supply chain snarls. The downgrading of plans for F-35 upgrades,...
Trump suggests National Guard could go into New Orleans
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation where he may send federal law enforcement. “So we’re making a determination now,” Trump told...
Confederate monument dismantled in Edenton, North Carolina, for relocation
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Confederate monument that caused a stir in a North Carolina town has been dismantled and put in storage until it can be moved to a different location. The Town of Edenton had been planning to remove...
Remembering the Shenandoah, the Navy’s first rigid airship
On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long distance reconnaissance missions, the Shenandoah was one of five...
Army ends bias reduction assessment program for officer selection
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Army has canceled its Command Assessment Program (CAP), a promotion board that factored psychological assessments and potential biases into leadership considerations. “Good riddance,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. “Promotions across [Department of Defense] will ONLY be...
Survivors of Maine mass shooting allege Army could’ve prevented attack
Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and relatives of victims are suing the federal government, alleging that the U.S. Army could and should have stopped one of its reservists from carrying out what they call “one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history.”...
