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A senior Navy investigator will plead guilty to bribery charges for accepting prostitution services and expensive trips in exchange for providing information and advice to an Asian defense contractor at the center of a multimillion-dollar fraud probe, the Navy official's lawyer said Thursday.

The lawyer for a senior U.S. Navy investigator said Thursday that his client plans to plead guilty in a massive bribery scheme involving an Asian defense contractor.

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."

Originally designed to replace the F-4 Phantom and the A-7 Corsair II, the F/A-18 Hornet made its first flight in St. Louis Nov. 18, 1978.

At the height of the Cold War, HMS Ocelot secretly served on the front line. In the clandestine battle against the Soviet navy, she would stay submerged for weeks at a time, silently watching and listening to the enemy.

The findings released Wednesday by NASA's Inspector General surfaced during a review of a government airfield lease for seven planes and two helicopters controlled by Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the Internet search company's former CEO, Eric Schmidt.

But thanks to her son Pieter - a submariner with the Royal Navy - it is in print again after more than 20 years.

The US Navy recently announced that a submerged submarine can launch unmanned drones, thus moving submarine technology towards a new stage of mission-critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.

In FBI released still photos from surveillance camera footage, Aaron Alexis, a U. S. Navy contractor, enters the Washington Navy Yard carrying a backpack using a valid pass to gain entry at 8:08 a.m. on September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC.

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In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, employment opportunity banners stand in the foreground as retired U.S. Navy Chief Jerome Porter, of Atlanta, talks with a recruiter during a job fair for veterans at the VFW Post 2681, in Marietta, Ga.

Two men extradited from Britain last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting terrorists in Afghanistan through websites that sought to raise cash, recruit fighters and solicit items such as gas masks.

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.

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The missing heart of a dead Marine from Chester County, Pa., is at the center of an international mystery that threatens to entangle two governments in a Philadelphia court battle.

India's recent acquisition of the Russian-made aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya demonstrates its desire to increase its naval strength.

The map identifies the Southeast Asian ports that the Justice Department says were preferred by contractor Leonard Glenn Francis so he could overcharge Navy ships for supplies, and charts showing the annual number of U.S. Navy visits to each of those ports from 2009 to 2013.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus will announce new procurement opportunities for advanced biofuel.

"I know where my money is betting," said Mike Gibbons, vice president of F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18 Growler programs at Boeing, told reporters after a U.S. Navy ceremony at the headquarters of the Navy's aviation command celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first flight of the original F/A-18 Hornet.