Police in Florida say two people were killed and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire during a Halloween street celebration that drew thousands of costumed revelers to downtown Orlando.

The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year after his V-22 Osprey crashed in Australia.

The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if they or a family member have to go out of state for reproductive health care — including abortions — was only used 12 times from June to December of last year.

A judge says a federal lawsuit against the NFL’s disability plan can proceed to trial.

Defense officials say Gen. Eric Smith is taking steps to return to full duty as commandant of the Marine Corps, about four months after being sidelined due to a heart attack.

The Marine Corps says Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant, has had open heart surgery and is expected to return to full duty as the service's leader.

Republican senators have angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers.

The Senate has confirmed three top military leaders, filling the posts after monthslong delays and as a Republican senator is still holding up hundreds of other nominations and promotions for senior officers.

The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected has been located in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection.

Two Florida police officers were shot and critically injured during a traffic stop, and the suspect was fatally shot by SWAT team members several hours later.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is warning that troop readiness and retention is at risk as the Army’s chief recently stepped down, leaving the military’s two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet.

The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as Gen. David Berger stepped down as commandant and a Republican senator is blocking confirmation of his successor.

President Joe Biden has nominated a highly decorated Marine officer who's been involved in the transformation of the force to be the next commandant of the Marine Corps.

Ten retired players are accusing the NFL of lying and flagrantly violating federal law in denying disability benefits.

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is a court-ordered program for people like Smith, with severe mental illness, caught in a cycle of hospitalizations, homelessness, and incarcerations.

School district leaders in Medina County are asking that county commissioners considering funding 6 school resource officers for each of the school districts in that county.

Mike Westhoff has always been blunt and brutally honest.

A federal judge says the IRS can't keep withholding coronavirus relief payments from incarcerated people, potentially clearing the way for at least 80,000 checks totaling more than $100 million to be sent to people behind bars across the United States. The legislation passed in March that authorized the payments of up to $1,200 per person during the pandemic doesn't specifically exclude jail or prison inmates. Still, that's exactly the claim that the IRS made a couple of weeks after the coronavirus rescue package passed. Prison officials in Maryland and California are working to notify all lock-up facilities. Some inmates may be reluctant to apply even if they hear about the ruling in time, Dermody said.