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The Navy admiral who was second in command of U.S. nuclear forces has been fired in a gambling investigation, military officials said Wednesday.Vice Adm. Tim Giardina was demoted from three-star rank to two stars and will be reassigned from his position as deputy commander of U.S.

It was revealed Wednesday that lawmakers outraged by the shutdown fiasco that has deprived military families of death benefits were in fact warned by the Pentagon before the shutdown even began.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When a California college student was killed by a gun-wielding stranger on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, none of the dozens of passengers on board saw it coming; officials say they were too absorbed in their mobile devices.

Race wasn't involved in the roadside stabbing death of a soldier in Washington state last weekend, the prosecutor said Wednesday.

TUSAYAN, Ariz. — A small community near the southern mouth of the Grand Canyon that usually boasts a bevvy of tourists has been turned into a veritable ghost town by the government shutdown. Nearly all of the 542 people who live in Tusayan, Ariz.

Chelsea Manning complains in a letter published Wednesday that she's been mischaracterized as a pacifist and says she leaked hundreds of thousands of secret government documents as a matter of transparency.

A California woman who spanked her daughter five to six times with a wooden spoon leaving bruises should not have been labeled a child abuser, said a state appeals court Tuesday.

A federal judge Wednesday ordered a California man accused of running an infamous online drug marketplace called Silk Road to be transported to New York to face criminal charges, federal prosecutor Randall Scott Luskey told NBC News.

Compensation checks to 5.1 million veterans, many severely injured in combat, won't be issued Nov.

The parents of an 8-year-old South Dakota girl want the police officer who stunned their daughter with a Taser disciplined, but the police chief says the officer may have saved the little girl's life.