Chile's Chinchorro mummies, the oldest in the world to have been purposefully preserved by humans, were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List on Tuesday. The United Nations' cultural organization announced on Twitter that it had added the "settlement...

A House panel is backing adding a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the Navy's fiscal 2022 budget, the latest move in Congress to stray from the administration's defense budget request.In its portion of the annual defense policy bill, the House...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday condemned an incident in which a swastika was carved into an elevator wall at the State Department's main headquarters. Blinken said in a message sent to all department employees that the...

Police said the actions by one of the officers, a sergeant, "appear to be unacceptable." The sergeant has been placed on unpaid suspension, officials said.

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to remove a mandated preference for the use of fixed-price contracts that increase financial risk for Pentagon contractors, overturning a signature initiative of the late Senator John McCain.