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The Pentagon comptroller compared getting the department audit-ready to "pushing a heavy block across sandpaper," but said the department was making major progress on getting there by 2017. 

The military sexual assault debate is back in the Senate after a brief two-month hiatus.

A bipartisan group of senators demanding an end to US military involvement in Afghanistan urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to seek congressional approval if he wants to keep troops there beyond 2014.

Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said: "We need a strategic response in Congress other than just ‘no, don't cut that.'"

North Korea appears to be almost done building a launch tower tall enough to handle firing rockets even larger than one successfully launched in 2012.

India and Israel will jointly build an integrated anti-missile system to be deployed against Chinese nuclear and conventional missiles.

Hong Kong police have successfully defused a 2,000 pound (900kg) bomb from World War Two, described as the biggest wartime bomb to be found in the city.

Wishing to avert a fight during an election year, the White House told defense officials they would provide extra money to allow the Navy to extend the life of the USS George Washington. 

The federal court that oversees the country's spy programs has approved President Obama's plans to limit searches of people's phone records.

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command warns The My Army Benefits website that is currently using the www.usmilitarybenifit.org web address, is not an official website.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Starr, a UH-60M Black Hawk instructor pilot with C Company, 1st Battalion, 212th Aviation Regiment, was awarded the Broken Wing Award.

The GOP is making faux candidate sites for Dems that look pretty darn real - to get donations to beat them.

The Air Force will convene an Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board on June 16 to consider early retirement for eligible officers.

Why exactly was Jack White selling candy on the street?

Have you watched all of those new Amazon pilots yet?

Tara Lipinski paid tribute to The Big Lebowski with this skating routine.

We're thankful we're not in Sochi right now. ...

In The Nation, 2006 Winter Games luge competitor Samantha Retrosi compares the Olympics to "The Hunger Games" while discussing her own experience of being made into a voicebox for Vorizon.

8 viral Sochi Olympics photos that are total lies.

The Simpsons predicted a Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl. But that wasn't the first time the show told the future.

Keeping cool while pulling off sweet jiujitsu moves wearing three-piece suits.