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Passenger absolved of in-flight bomb hoax that prompted F-18 response
The passenger, then 18, alleged the bomb threat was a joke.
By Sarah Sicard
Supreme Court turns away veterans over 1966 hydrogen bomb accident
An Air Force veteran filed class-action claims seeking benefits for veterans who say they were exposed to radiation while responding to the crash in Spain.
By AP Staff
Iran’s president appoints new official in powerful security post
Iran’s president appointed a former Revolutionary Guard official to take over the post of secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Russia says Ukraine behind bombing of nationalist, pro-war author
Russia said the car bombing suspect that injured a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist and killed his driver has admitted acting for Ukraine’s special services.
Russia’s air force accidentally bombs own city of Belgorod
Russia’s military acknowledged that one of its warplanes accidentally bombed a Russian city about 25 miles east of the Russia-Ukraine border.
By AP Staff
Civil War reenactor goes off script, admits plan to bomb battlefield
A Virginia man pleaded guilty for previously planting an explosive device at a Civil War reenactment.
US pledges longer-range ‘small-diameter bomb’ for Ukraine
The U.S. announced Friday it will send Ukraine the Boeing-made ground-launched small-diameter bomb, a weapon that can double its strike range.
By Joe Gould
Biden National Defense Strategy tackles China, Russia, nuke deterrence
The administration’s first National Defense Strategy highlights Beijing’s growing military strength.
US B-52 bombers fly over Middle East amid tensions with Iran
The bombers took off from the Royal Air Force base at Fairford, England, and flew over the eastern Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea.
Biden plan to shelve Trump-era sea nuke comes under fire
U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program have emerged as an early political brawl in a brewing fight over next year’s defense budget.
By Joe Gould