U.S. Army

Obama calls U.S.-Taliban talks agreement 'important first step'

2013-06-18 20:03:00

KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, the U.S. and the Taliban have met almost exclusively on the battlefield of America's longest war. In coming days, both sides said, they will sit down at a negotiating table to discuss ending the bloodshed...

Guillermo del Toro talks 'Pacific Rim' visuals and a potential sequel

2013-06-18 16:39:00

Guillermo del Toro, director of the forthcoming sci-fi picture "Pacific Rim," had a� very specific set of parameters for the movie's visuals. For starters, the filmmaker, whose directing credits include "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy," knew what he...

Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign

2013-06-18 21:01:00

Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...

A more complete tally of U.S. military suicides last year: 524

2013-06-17 08:01:00

In data compiled by the Defense Department on military suicides, perhaps the most surprising statistic is that between 2008 and 2011, 52% of service members who took their own lives had never been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. That figure, which...

NASA's new astronauts: Will these men and women fly to Mars?

2013-06-17 14:36:00

It’s been two years since NASA’s space shuttle program came to an end, but thousands of Americans still dream of becoming astronauts. Eight of them – four men and four women – were introduced Monday as NASA’s astronaut...

Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

2013-06-15 16:22:00

Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...

The Week in Pictures | June 10 – 16, 2013

2013-06-15 06:54:39

BioWatch faces congressional hearing this week

2013-06-16 18:53:00

WASHINGTON — A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to detect airborne releases of anthrax or other biological weapons. In his 2003 State of the Union address,...

'Art of the West' inaugurates the Autry's new permanent gallery

2013-06-15 05:00:00

In traditional Native American belief, spirits can inhabit seemingly inanimate things. Can paintings, sculptures, decorative objects and handicrafts also be infused with the spirits of their subjects, and of the people who made them? If so, the new...

Judge rejects accused Ft. Hood shooter's new defense strategy

2013-06-14 14:32:00

HOUSTON -- A military judge on Friday rejected a new defense strategy by accused Ft, Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said during an afternoon hearing at the Army base that she would not allow Hasan to argue that he shot...

Pictures in the News | June 12, 2013

2013-06-12 09:54:46

Harry Lewis dies at 93; launched Hamburger Hamlet chain

2013-06-10 19:27:00

As an actor, Harry Lewis took second billing to the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, most notably in the 1948 film noir "Key Largo." But he found his own starring role as a Los Angeles restaurateur who helped usher in the concept of...

Double amputees U.S. Marine Pfc. Isaac Blunt, left, and U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Chris Montera lie still during a yoga class at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego on June 10. Both were gravely wounded in Afghanistan.

2013-06-14 17:21:47

Brother Ty Darlington's U.S. Army All-American Game ceremony, the Darlington crew.

2013-06-14 13:13:45

Members of the U.S. Army's Old Guard take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery June 13, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. The ceremony was a part of the Army's celebration of its 238th birthday.

2013-06-14 00:00:00