Duncan Hunter

WASHINGTON — This week's crash of a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier attack jet, the second in five days and the fifth this year, has prompted renewed concern about the accident-prone plane at the Pentagon and in Congress. Despite assurances by Marine...

The Senate today approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's intelligence community a day after the House passed the measure, which President Bush is expected to sign into law by the end of the week. The Senate version was approved by a majority of...

WASHINGTON - With Republicans feuding over how actively to investigate the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, senators plan to question three top generals today about how far up the military chain of command responsibility for the detainee mistreatment...

WASHINGTON - More photographic evidence surfaced yesterday graphically depicting U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, as Democrats continued their calls for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign amid the widening scandal....

The chairman of the House panel that funds the Pentagon said he will begin an inquiry into whether the Marine Corps' crash-prone Harrier attack jet should continue flying. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands), who heads the House Appropriations subcommittee...

WASHINGTON - The Army is pursuing criminal investigations into the deaths of 10 prisoners and the abuse of 10 others in Iraq and Afghanistan, Army officials said yesterday. The disclosures made clear that suspected abuses by U.S. soldiers go well...

Sen. John McCain is clear about what must happen before the Air Force awards a new contract for refueling tankers--and it's not what Boeing Co. wants to hear. Rep. Norm Dicks, a Boeing booster from its longtime home state of Washington, is equally...