The report said the international community has limited knowledge of the motivations, decision-making and capabilities supporting China’s military modernization. This includes a lack of clarity about China’s defense spending, which Washington contends China understates.

A man suspected of carrying a gun on Middle Georgia College’s campus has been taken into custody

Smell becomes the sense targeted by a new type of smoke alarm to help hearing impaired people

Army Brig. Gen. Tony Thomas said coalition forces are “pursuing a disrupted but still dangerous enemy” in northern Iraq, the center of activity for an al-Qaida-led militants there by coalition operations elsewhere in Iraq.

Bush declines to promise that more troops will return from Iraq before he leaves office

African-Americans and Hispanics used subprime mortgages to buy homes during the housing boom far more often than whites and non-Hispanics.

Wayne Leyde, who served two tours in Iraq with the Army, bought his winning Millionaire II ticket Tuesday night at a Zip Trip in Mead, about 10 miles northeast of Spokane.

Sen. John Warner Thursday endorsed a proposal to revamp the GI bill to make the costs of attending private colleges and universities more affordable for veterans.

Even at Virginia Tech, a bit fewer than four in 10 students still have not signed up for emergency text alerts.

Just talking with them sends the wrong message, confuses U.S. allies and raises the international profile of regimes that suppress human rights, Bush told a White House news conference.

The Army on Thursday rolled out the first revision of its operations manual since the Sept. 11th terror attacks, putting stability operations - nation-building - on par with combat.

For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults found themselves behind bars.

Jake J. Brahm admitted that he posted false information that so-called dirty bombs would be detonated at the stadiums in Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland, Cleveland and New York on Oct. 22, 2006.

Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air Force chief of staff, told reporters that B-52 crews assigned to training for the nuclear attack mission will do that exclusively for at least six months at a time, rather than switching regularly between training for nuclear and non-nuclear missions.

The money collected over 10 years is intended to provide tax breaks for wind, solar and other alternative energy sources and for energy conservation

A University of Arkansas-Little Rock spokeswoman says one person has been hurt in a shooting in a campus parking lot.

District Attorney David Roger acknowledged that defense teams don’t have some tape recordings made by witnesses in the case. But he said investigators were providing transcripts as they were completed.

An investigation into allegations the Marine Corps delayed sending blast-resistant trucks to Iraq also will examine whether the Marines were negligent in delivering a laser to divert drivers and people from checkpoints and convoys, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture rule change made in July allows some downer cows into the food supply, the Humane Society of the United States alleges in its lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Cole Hall — a huge classroom building at the center of campus — will be replaced with a state-of-the-art general classroom building to be named Memorial Hall.

William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right’s post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

Former White House computer expert says risk of lost data was high

A problem with Florida’s electrical grid caused a nuclear plant to automatically shut down Tuesday and intermittently cut power to up to 3 million people from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys.

Many fire departments around the country don’t have the foam, don’t have enough of it, or are not well-trained in how to apply it, firefighting experts say. It is also more expensive than conventional foam.

Even if you knew you wouldn’t get caught if you didn’t pay your taxes, would you pay anyway?  Most Americans apparently would.

Amtrak’s request reflects increased costs connected to a recent labor settlement with most of the railroad’s unionized workers. However, it does not include $114 million in back wages that are to be paid out next year.

Park rangers, groups oppose bid to ease ban on guns in national parks

Robert Harris, 47, says he picked the winning numbers from Friday’s multistate drawing by using his grandchildren’s birthdays

When a new strain of bees invades a region already populated by honey bees, they interbreed and gain benefits from the genes of their predecessors, researchers report in this week’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Northern Illinois University students returned to campus Monday ready to get on with their semesters, even as the deadly shooting rampage of 10 days ago weighed heavily on their minds.