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"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.

In their foreword to the coalition Government's programme, David Cameron and Nick Clegg made clear the first duty of government is "to safeguard our national security".

The frigid weather that's enveloped virtually the entire United States won't be leaving any time soon, and that could mean more dangerous travel and more deaths.

Notice a woman punching in code on a mammoth computer on Google today? That would be Grace Hopper, a computing pioneer known as the "mother" of Cobol , one of the first programming languages to rely on language rather than numerical machine code - a development that paved the way for modern programming.

Naval History and Heritage Command's two youngest Sailors honored the veterans of the attack on Pearl Harbor with a wreath laying ceremony, sponsored by the Naval Order of the United States, at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns, December 7. Information Systems Technician Seaman Yesenia Munoz, a native of Houston, Texas, and Yeoman ... (more)

Brandon Bailey worked as a flight nurse evacuating wounded troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kasadie Harvey, whose husband is in the Navy, loads groceries into her vehicle Thursday while their 10-month-old daughter Adalynn watches at the Naval Weapons Station commissary in Goose Creek.

Eleven more pilot whales were found dead in the lower Florida Keys on Sunday, believed to be from a pod of 51 that became stranded there last week, and authorities said chances were slim of finding the remaining whales alive.

An Iraq veteran who thought he was buying an iPad as a Christmas present after responding to a Craigslist posting, has been shot dead in an Indianapolis parking lot by the fake sellers.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday his country opposes the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan and the region, saying their presence generates tension, the official IRNA news agency reported.

An all-honors student and varsity soccer player, Luc LaChance could have had his pick of colleges when he left Slippery Rock High School in Butler County.

Pearl Harbor survivors watch a vintage WWII airplane fly over Pearl Harbor at the ceremony commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Honolulu.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined a plan to allow sales of US radars, sensors and early warning missile defense systems to the Gulf Cooperation Council.

William Keith was struggling to get out, along with other sailors trapped below the main deck of the USS West Virginia on Dec. 7, 1941, as torpedoes and bombs hammered the battleship.

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In this file image provided by the U.S. Navy, crewmen of the USS Nevada still fight flames on the battleship, battered in the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Brian LaLoup, 22, had his heart removed following an autopsy in Greece.

The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor is burned into the American consciousness.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- You could hardly escape reminders of it during World War II. And over the course of decades since, Dec. 7 has meant one thing to generations of Americans: But that message has become muted over the past few years by the thinning of the ranks of the men and women who survived the assault that Sunday morning on U.S. military ... (more)

After the death of Nelson Mandela, President Obama ordered that U.S. flags on government buildings be flown at half-staff until Monday evening - a symbolic gesture of a nation in mourning.