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President Trump has ordered the Navy to strip out the new electromagnetic catapults from future aircraft carrier construction plans and return to steam-powered systems that have launched fighter jets into the sky for generations.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Trump plans to drastically dial up financial pressure on Iran as the Middle East conflict reverts to an economic war of wills.

Iranian officials taunted the U.S. and claimed full control and management of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, contradicting President Trump's contention the U.S. is directing oil traffic through the waterway at the heart of the Middle East dispute.

A small town in Andalusia has become the center of a national dispute after its Socialist-led council voted to move a centuries-old local holiday off the date tied to its patron saint's festivities, drawing accusations from the opposition that the ...

The State Department on Thursday called a joint Chinese naval maneuver with an Indonesian warship in waters east of Taiwan a destabilizing act, while Taipei denounced the maneuver as "dangerous."

The Pentagon's senior defense policymaker on Thursday defended the lack of any mention of Chinese aggression toward the Philippines in the South China Sea or Beijing's military pressure against Taiwan in recent remarks as part of a new U.S. strategy ...

An enduring conspiracy theory has resurfaced on social media after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, with users blaming a research program in Alaska for the disaster.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said reports of poor living conditions and food shortages aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier were "completely misrepresented," even as lawmakers demand answers about the well-being of the sailors and ...

An explosion sparked by a fire at an ammunition factory sent up a towering plume of smoke Thursday in the town of Colleferro near Rome but no injuries were reported, local officials said.

Vote counting got underway Thursday evening in Zambia after polls closed in a closely watched presidential election that tests whether President Hakainde Hichilema's economic reforms were enough to overcome widespread frustration over the cost of ...