It’s been well over a year since the Pentagon announced its historic decision to open up all combat jobs in the military to women, but Congress is still debating over whether women should register for the draft.
House Republicans are blocking every congressional effort to force women to join men in signing up when they turn 18.

Divers have located human bones near the wreckage of a U.S. bomber that crashed in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia in 1944.

Indian River County resident Scott Lahodik was just doing his job — diving for golf balls — when a 10-foot alligator latched onto his arm Friday.

Miraculously, the 51-year-old Marine Corps veteran survived the alligator's "death roll," his wife said Monday from his bedside at Lee Memorial Hospital.

Iraqi forces were still battling Islamic State militants in a small area of Mosul on Monday, a day after the prime minister visited to congratulate the troops on retaking nearly all of Iraq's second largest city.

This week, lawmakers are set to discuss Department of Veterans Affairs health care, its 2018 budget, how veterans are affected by the opioid crisis and how the VA handles claims for Gulf War Illness – all while facing a short timeframe to do something about quickly diminishing funds in the VA Choice program.

The cargo plane took off in the rain from the western Tokyo air base last week to much fanfare.

“We represent the first permanent U.S. operational military presence in Poland,” said Lt. Col. Kristofer Padilla, commander of the Air Force’s detachment in Lask, Poland.

Carl Dileo was shot in the head. “The bullet hit the top of my helmet, and it shattered into fragments,” he said. “Pieces got stuck in my skull, but they never reached the brain.” He was treated on the field and continued to fight.

Conversion as redemption has long been baked into the American narrative. Reformed gang members counsel at-risk students in urban high schools. Former white supremacists show extremists how to think differently. But in the United States, reformed terrorists advocating against terrorism represent something new.