Biden arrives in Tokyo for talks with Japanese allies and a Quad summit

Thousands of people, most of them Japanese, in rows six deep lined the flight line for hundreds of yards. They waited hours like concertgoers anticipating the overdue headliner.

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Ramstein airmen send plane full of baby formula to US amid national shortage

Airmen began loading the C-17 at Ramstein Air Base around 3 a.m. after an earlier departure time was delayed because of bad weather in the U.S.

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Pentagon spokesman John Kirby to switch podiums for White House job

Chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby is stepping down from his position to switch podiums for a senior communications job at the White House, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday.

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US, South Korea to discuss expanded joint military exercises

Citing the threat posed by North Korea, Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea agreed Saturday to reinforce their defensive posture on the Korean Peninsula.

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USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Japan for port call ahead of presidential visit

The Lincoln, on patrol since leaving San Diego on Jan. 3, is making a port call for ship-board maintenance and to provide the crew some downtime.

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This soldier fought for Finland, Nazi Germany and US Special Forces

As Finland seeks to join NATO, Lauri Törni embodies all its foreign policy contradictions and entanglements with his improbable story of fighting for three countries — largely to resist Russian aggression.

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Russia presses Donbas offensive as Polish leader visits Kyiv

After declaring full control of a sprawling seaside steel plant that was the last defensive holdout in the port city of Mariupol, Russia launched artillery and missile attacks in the region, known as the Donbas.

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Biden highlights Hyundai announcement of $10B US investment

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests Sunday as he wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea, showcasing Hyundai's pledge to invest at least $10 billion in electric vehicles and related technologies in the United States.

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Dodging shells, mines and spies: On the front with Ukraine’s snipers

A visit to Maryinka brought a rare close-up look at the current nature of the war in eastern Ukraine — fueled now by crushing artillery battles aided by drones and snipers — and showed why Russian forces have failed to break Ukraine's defensive lines.

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He was stationed in Florida when his child died, but Alabama put him in prison

Robert Rice still doesn’t understand how he ended up inside Bibb Correctional Facility, a prison for men far from the panhandle beach town where he lived while serving in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. His failure to act in protection of his child made him culpable, prosecutors said.

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Florida bodybuilder pulling a $245,000 scam told the VA he could lift only 10 pounds

Vanity, in the form of online photos, prevented a Port St. Lucie, Fla., man from getting away with taking $245,286 in Veterans Administration disability benefits by claiming, among other things, combat experience and arm and leg weakness that prevented him from lifting weights since 2010.

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