A new University of Georgia study found one in eight military families with children have visited a food bank in a recent 12-month stretch. The research, published recently by the Public Health Nutrition journal, also…

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Tensions are escalating between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered the deployment of troops to restore Niger’s flailing democracy. The ECOWAS bloc said on…

TOPEKA — U.S. Sens. Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran voted with a bipartisan majority for the Senate’s version of the annual defense bill that included a 5.2% raise for servicemembers, sustained support for Ukraine’s war…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia’s armed forces are bruised but by no means beaten in the war in Ukraine, a top NATO military officer said Monday, as he laid out the biggest revamp to the organization’s…

Scott Kroenke notes his Memorial Day speech Monday may sound a bit different than what folks have heard in the past. Part of that is because Kroenke isn’t what you’d call an eager public speaker.…

More than 80 years after his death in the Philippines, the body of Staff Sgt. David Emory Holeman is coming home. Though Holeman has no connection to Independence, he will be afforded full military honors…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has finished efforts to recover the remnants of the large balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial spy program that targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden administration…

Russia will create new commands near Europe as it expands its military to 1.5 million people amid deepening tensions with the U.S. and its allies over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. New structures in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a nearly $858 billion defense spending bill into law Friday despite his opposition to a Republican-backed provision in the legislation that repeals the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for U.S.…