A U.S. appeals court has reversed a ruling that said the National Security Agency’s program to collect phone records from millions of Americans in an effort to locate terrorist plots was illegal. In 2013, a lower court ruled the program was probably unconstitutional because it likely violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches. The appellate […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Staff Sgt. Jamie Haines, an Airman with the 212th Rescue Squadron and Spc. Tadhg Nakada, a Soldier with the 207th Aviation Battalion, competed in South American Military Ski Championships and International Ski biathlon Competition at the Army of Chile Mountain School in Portillo, Chile, last week. The biathlon event is […]
Photos posted online by Islamic State on Tuesday claim to show the destruction of a 2,000-year-old temple at the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra earlier this week. In the series of images, several men carry barrels into the Roman-era Baal Shamin temple, lining the base and placing the containers connected by blue wire on […]
Worries about China’s faltering economic growth pushed down stock and oil prices around the world on Monday. U.S. stock markets plunged at the open, with the Dow off nearly 5 percent in the first few minutes of trading. After a day of wild swings in stock prices, U.S. indexes were down 3.6 percent or more […]