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The world's nine nuclear-armed states are modernizing and upgrading their arsenals as crucial arms-control frameworks like the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, known as New START, have largely eroded or collapsed outright.

President Trump on Wednesday promised to make Iran "pay the price" for slow-rolling peace negotiations with the U.S. as American forces in the Middle East launched a new round of airstrikes.

A U.S. military operation against Cuba and its outdated defense equipment and badly outmatched armed forces could be simpler and more straightforward than January's high-stakes raid in Caracas to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

A Swedish jet that can take off and land on ordinary highways and be serviced on the ground with a skeleton crew is expected to become the backbone of Ukraine's air war against Russia.

A leading soccer referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States for the World Cup tournament was warmly received by a crowd of supporters and officials on Wednesday as he arrived home.

President Trump said the U.S. military would strike Iran for a second day on Wednesday as he loses patience with Tehran's negotiators and punishes them for downing an American helicopter.

SPIKE LEE says ICE not welcome at Knicks victory parade: "It's going to be craziness. It's going to be love. And NYPD can't control that. The Marines, National Guard, just don't bring in the motherf---ing ICE. No ICE. I've said this more than once.

A postcard belonging to a World War I soldier whose body was found with five comrades during an excavation has helped reunite distant descendants more than a century after his death on the Western Front.

A sailor based in Norfolk, Virginia, will spend 44 years in federal prison after he was sentenced Tuesday for unpremeditated murder in the strangulation death of a female sailor he worked with, Navy officials said.

President Trump signed a Republican-backed $70 billion immigration enforcement package Wednesday to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through the duration of his presidency.