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Anti-government protesters in Thailand cut off electricity to the prime minister's office compound on Thursday while their leaders met with businesspeople to explain why they want to oust the caretaker government before upcoming elections.

In January 2012 a video showing Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters exploded on the Internet, triggering waves of outrage and prompting fears that it would incite anti-American violence.

A letter from former Navy Secretary James Forrestal apparently arrived at a home in Point Richmond, Calif., in October - 67 years after it was mailed.

The U.S. general who opened the Guantanamo detention camp said Thursday it was a mistake and should be shut down because "it validates every negative perception of the United States."

Since Oct. 1, the Coast Guard has picked up 420 Haitians at sea. Officials say that in the past year, there's also been a significant increase in the number of Haitians crossing the 80 miles of water that separate the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

The Royal Air Force has delivered military equipment to French forces in the troubled capital of the Central African Republic, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The investigation into the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight at San Francisco's airport last summer has highlighted problems with cockpit culture and the trainee pilot's lack of confidence in his... The investigation into the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight at San Francisco's airport last summer has highlighted problems with ... (more)

A member of the Minnesota National Guard and self-described commander of a militia group was charged Wednesday with stealing names, Social Security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit in Fort Bragg, N.C., so he could make fake IDs for his militia members.

The U.S. Coast Guard says its crews shot out the engines of a small Mexican boat before seizing more than 7,000 pounds of marijuana and detaining three suspected smugglers.

The Mississippi River towboat that partially sank just over two weeks ago is nearly ready to begin its 350-mile trip to a St. Louis area repair facility.

But for years it's kept a low profile in a region sometimes reluctant to advertise its significant U.S. military presence.

Prior to his work with American Eagle, Fred was Vice-President of Base Maintenance for American Airlines from 2008 to 2009.

Advocates for the mentally ill say the USA has made fitful progress in the year since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School turned the country's attention to failures in the mental health system.

U.S. Air Force investigators confirmed on Tuesday that a bird strike caused the crash of an $8 million fighter jet in Texas during a training flight last July.

This undated photo provided by the family via attorney Aaron J. Freiwald shows U.S. Marine Brian LaLoup who died in 2012 while stationed in Greece.

Accused of withholding food & water, making the children eat red pepper & assaulting them to the point of breaking their bones John Jackson, left, and his wife Carolyn Jackson, of Mount Holly, N.J., walk out of Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The U.S. Army major and his wife pleaded not guilty to abusing ... (more)

Nearly 200 new troopers are getting set to join the ranks of the New York State Police.

1939 - German battleship Graf Spee is scuttled off Uruguay to prevent it from falling into British hands in World War II.

So the prime minister of Canada and his wife and three former prime ministers get on a 30-year-old plane with two former governors general, four provincial or territorial premiers, the head of the Assembly of First Nations and the leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber arrived Tuesday in the Philippines, where he has launched a campaign to help victims of last month's killer typhoon.