SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — A night of heavy drinking with fellow airmen that ended in a deadly car crash two years ago has landed a Spangdahlem airman in jail for three years and ended his military career. Senior Airman Jade A. Westmoreland was sentenced after pleading guilty to negligent homicide and related charges at …
President Biden got his choice of Colin Kahl for the Pentagon‘s top policy job on Tuesday after Republican absences on Capitol Hill meant he didn’t need to call on his vice president to break a looming confirmation vote tie in the Senate. It was a change from March when the nomination failed to advance in …
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — An unmanned helicopter crashed into the side of a U.S. Navy ship during routine operations in the western Pacific ocean, officials said Tuesday. No one was injured when the 31-foot-long MQ-8B Fire Scout struck the hull of the USS Charleston shortly after the helicopter took off from the San Diego-based Littoral …
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HOUSTON (AP) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated the sheriff of one of the nation’s most populous counties to lead the agency that deports people in the country illegally, picking a seasoned law enforcement official who sharply criticized Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, whose jurisdiction includes the Houston metropolitan …
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A Navy patrol coastal ship fired warning shots at three Iranian armed speed boats that were harassing U.S. vessels on Monday in the northern Persian Gulf, defense officials have announced. This is the second reported incident since April 2 in which vessels with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy have come dangerously close to American …
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