Beetle Bailey turns 75: the Army’s lovable slacker marches on
When “Beetle Bailey” debuted in 1950, it was a college strip about a lanky underachiever who wanted to do as little as possible. Six months later, creator Mort Walker had Beetle enlist in the Army during the Korean War. From that moment on, the reluctant...
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...