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Lynas Rare Earths has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defence to build a processing facility in Texas.

WASHINGTON — Last week, House Armed Services subcommittees approved their portions of the Pentagon’s annual policy bill, indicating support for a big pay raise for troops and some resistance to ship retirements. But the panels left the biggest question unresolved: how much defense funding to authorize.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Zoe Lofgren was at work on Capitol Hill each of the four times Congress moved to impeach a president in modern U.S. history, first as a staffer and later as representative — the only member with such experience.

House Armed Services subcommittees marked up the defense policy bill last week, but the left unclear the Pentagon's funding authorization.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — More than 40 feet up the tower at Fort Jackson, Army recruit Robert Smith missed setting his feet on the 4-by-4 plank from which he was to start rappelling down.

The fixed-price contract for the new Air Force One that Donald Trump talked Boeing Co. into signing hasn’t just caused the $1.5 billion in cumulative losses so far that the company’s CEO has lamented. It has also created headaches for the Air Force.

A new nuclear era demands strategy, not just arms control.

A group of bipartisan US lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to integrate regional countries' air defense systems to thwart Iran's threats. The "Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defense Act" would authorize the US Defense Department to cooperate with Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other regional…

The Pentagon has catalogued a number of UFO sightings over the past few decades. Now, NASA is getting involved

The experts will examine 'unidentified aerial phenomena' or UFOs in the latest sign of the seriousness with which the US government is taking the issue.

NASA will fund a "no more than $100,000 study" looking at what astrophysical data exists with unexplained origins led by astrophysicist David Spergel.