Defense

Authorities are clamoring to secure additional body storage wherever possible as U.S. officials estimate the death toll from the coronavirus could reach as high as 240,000

America’s armed services are finding it harder to bring in new recruits as the worsening coronavirus forces families and communities to hunker down, even as the country turns increasingly to the military for help

The Trump administration is urging Americans to cover their faces in public to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and is limiting exports of medical supplies

The chief judge of a secretive national security court is demanding that the FBI provide him with details about its investigations after a Justice Department inspector general identified problems with more than two dozen wiretap applications

U.S. defense leaders are backing the Navy’s decision to fire the ship captain who sought help for his coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, even as videos showed his sailors cheering him as he walked off the vessel

The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing coronavirus outbreak has been fired

The U.S. government’s efforts to clean up Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has lumbered along for decades, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment

States are bidding against each other to obtain the desperately needed medical devices from private manufacturers

The Islamic State group and al-Qaida are seeing the coronavirus pandemic as a chance to strike harder than ever

U.S. Navy officials say nearly 3,000 sailors aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier where the coronavirus has spread will be taken off the ship by Friday as military leaders struggle to quarantine crew members in the face of an outbreak

An army of health care workers has heeded New York’s call for help reinforcing hospitals overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic

Authorities say a train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was suspicious about the presence of a Navy hospital ship docked there amid the coronovirus crisis