Federal Probe Launched in NM-Texas Border Town

Residents of a small New Mexico border town woke to the sounds of helicopters, bangs and screaming as federal and local agents conducted an early morning sweep...

Two Years After bin Laden Raid, the Future of Special Operations

The raid that took out Osama bin Laden two years ago Wednesday was only a few minutes old when it nearly fell to pieces. We’ve all heard the story: one of the...

Japanese Invasion Fleet Heads For California — Then Where?

TOKYO – An unprecedented force of ships, troops and aircraft that Japan will send to southern California for amphibious warfare exercises next month represents...

Cramming for War With Petraeus

Army Major Kacie Lee flew UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as a platoon leader for the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul in 2003, in the first of her two deployments...

Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured

“O happy town beside the sea,” philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Boston, “whose roads lead everywhere to all.” Friday would have saddened him. Oliver...

Immigration Reform’s First Big Test: The Boston Bombing

Critics of immigration reform are already invoking the marathon bombing suspects as a reason to slow the Senate's controversial immigration bill

‘Justice Has Won’: Marathon Bombing Suspect Arrested in Watertown

A manhunt that paralyzed Boston and gripped the nation ended Friday night when police apprehended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a shootout in Watertown, Mass. The...

Syrian Government Airstrikes Kill At Least 25

(BEIRUT) — Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes on a rebellious neighborhood of the capital as well as a village in the country's northeast Sunday,...

At Least 6 People Hurt When Bus Overturns in Texas

(IRVING, Texas) — Authorities say at least six people are hospitalized after a chartered bus overturned on a North Texas highway. The crash occurred Thursday...

Drug War Do-Over: Can the U.S. Push Trafficking Out of Central America?

As the crackdown on narcotics in Central America becomes increasingly messy, the best hope for success may lie in pushing drug traffic elsewhere

Helicopters Collide Near Berlin Stadium

(BERLIN) — Two helicopters clipped each other and crashed as they landed in a snowstorm near Berlin's Olympic Stadium during a federal police exercise on...

3 Astronauts Return to Earth From Space Station

(MOSCOW) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Saturday morning on the foggy steppes of Kazakhstan, safely...

Bad Weather Postpones Return of 3 Astronauts

(MOSCOW) — Bad weather is delaying the return of three astronauts from the International Space Station. The astronauts were scheduled to land in a Soyuz capsule...

Daring Helicopter Prison Escape Foiled

A helicopter swooped down on a prison courtyard Sunday as armed men on board fired on guards and lowered a rope to help a convicted killer make his fourth...

French Family of 7 Kidnapped in Cameroon

On Tuesday, French officials said that seven French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped in Cameroon and are believed to have been taken to...

Japan Looks to Protect Its Own Overseas

TOKYO – Well, that didn’t take long.  Only weeks after 10 Japanese nationals were killed in a terrorist attack in Algeria, Japan’s military is practicing how to...

Army Taking to the Skies

The Army is the nation’s ground-pounding force. It flies helicopters, but it leaves most of the fixed-wing fun to the Air Force, Navy and Marines (cf. F-35,...

Russian Arms Trader: Syria Shipments Will Continue

(MOSCOW) — The head of Russia's state arms trader says Moscow will continue shipping weapons to the government in Syria despite the country's escalating civil...

Prince Harry Acknowledges Killing Insurgents During Afghan Tour of Duty

Prince Harry is on his way back from a four-month deployment in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot, and has confirmed that he killed Taliban insurgents...

Watch Me Levitate a Remote Control Helicopter with My Mind

Mind-controlled helicopters feed on relaxation or concentration. So when the Puzzlebox Orbit started lifting off the ground before I could even start to...