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AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts Obama-Biden aid to Ukraine
Casting himself as tough on Russia, former President Donald Trump lowballed the amount of U.S. military aid provided to Ukraine during the Obama-Biden administration and claimed that only he himself...
EXPLAINER: Does Putin’s alert change risk of nuclear war?
Russian President Vladimir Putin's implied threat to turn the Ukraine war into a broader nuclear conflict presents President Joe Biden with choices rarely contemplated in the atomic age, including whether...
U.S. orders 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia worry
The Pentagon ordered 8,500 troops on higher alert Monday to potentially deploy to Europe as part of a NATO “response force” amid growing concern that Russia could soon make a...
EXPLAINER: What are U.S. military options to help Ukraine?
President Joe Biden is not planning to answer a further Russian invasion of Ukraine by sending combat troops. But he could pursue a range of less dramatic yet still risky...
Colin Powell remembered as a model for future generations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as...
Colin Powell, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims, has died of COVID-19 complications
Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in...
Army general who commanded in Iraq dies of cancer at age 67
“The general died after a brave battle with cancer; his death was not related to COVID,” a family statement said. “There are no other details to share at this time....
Military suicides rise 15% as senior leaders call for action
The number of U.S. military suicides jumped by 15% last year, fueled by significant increases in the Army and Marine Corps that senior leaders called troubling. They urged more effort...
Army Gen. Mark Milley defends calls to Chinese at end of Trump presidency
The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a...
U.S. military leaders favored keeping troops in Afghanistan
In their first congressional testimony on the tumultuous final months of America’s longest war, top U.S. military officers on Tuesday acknowledged misjudging the fragility of Afghanistan’s army and said they...