Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War ...

Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and ...

President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Robert Salesses, ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Monday said President-elect Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is ...

The US Department of Defense is the largest government agency in the country. A sprawling and massive bureaucracy, the DOD ...

He served for 24 years with the Illinois Army National Guard before retiring in 2001. Swanson then volunteered and was recalled for active duty in 2007, which included a tour in Iraq, where he ...

Northwestern is one of over 1,700 colleges and universities nationwide to offer the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.

It is unclear who will take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as ...

Chicago’s migrant families prepare for Donald Trump promising the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, starting in ...

As a federal and state-observed holiday for the U.S. Postal Service, post offices will be closed on Martin Luther King Jr.

First nominee to face Senate, he calls China a primary threat to US and faces questioning on reported sexual misconduct and ...