Brand-new, nuclear powered, capable of carrying twice as many aircraft as most competing foreign carriers, and protected by an entire task force... the $6.2 billion USS Ronald Reagan seemed invincible ...

Was it military pressure, economic collapse, or Reagan’s diplomacy that brought down the Soviet Union? This documentary explores the hidden story behind the end of the Cold War 58 shot, 8 dead, in ...

On Aug. 1, 2025, the Office of the Historian published National Security Policy, 1985–1988 Part 1, which focused on President Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Strategic ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental ...

WASHINGTON — For decades, Republican activists around the country could count on observing the same party tradition every year: rubber chicken breasts and a cash bar at an annual fund-raising dinner ...

WASHINGTON — The USS New Orleans (LPD 18) caught fire Wednesday off the coast of Okinawa, according to the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet. The fire began at approximately 4 p.m. Wednesday, local time. It was ...

The USS New Orleans, front, sails in formation with the rest of the America Amphibious Ready Group in 2021. (MC3 Jomark Almazan/Navy) This story has been updated. U.S. and Japanese crews extinguished ...

Ronald, Grimace and Mayor McCheese have returned from exile! OK, Grimace had a temporary birthday furlough a couple of years ago, but the original McDonaldland gang hasn’t had a proper reunion in ...

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Okinawa — U.S. sailors extinguished a blaze aboard the USS New Orleans, an amphibious transport dock ship anchored off Okinawa’s southeastern coast, early Thursday after a ...

A major fire broke out aboard the USS New Orleans amphibious warship near Okinawa, Japan, prompting an emergency response from both American Navy crews and Japanese Coast Guard vessels. The incident ...

A fire broke out Wednesday on the USS New Orleans warship off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, leaving two sailors with minor injuries. The fire on the amphibious transport dock ship has been extinguished ...

Sailors battled a fire aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans for about 12 hours before the blaze was finally extinguished early Thursday morning in Japan, Navy officials have ...