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A female midshipman who says she was sexually assaulted by three members of the Naval Academy football team is scheduled to testify at a preliminary hearing Wednesday.

The U.S. has little choice but to respond forcefully to Syria's most recent use of chemical weapons against its citizens

Baltimore's Elijah Cummings is the voice of reason on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the chief restraint on chairman Darrell Issa

A recap of this week's episode of 'The Newsroom," in which the fallout from the Genoa story begins

Fort Meade, home to the National Security Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, U.S. Cyber Command and other key organizations, was a net winner in the 2005 round of BRAC. By the time Army Col. Edward C. Rothstein took command, military spending was beginning to tighten again.

Naval Academy midshipmen will get sexual assault prevention lessons as part of their classroom education beginning this fall, the academy's new commandant said Wednesday.

Speaking for the first time in his court-martial, Pfc. Bradley E. Manning apologized that his decision to leak thousands of secret documents hurt the United States and told an Army judge Wednesday that he was "dealing with a lot of issues" at the time.

The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that will be granting benefits to the same-sex spouses of both uniformed military personnel and civilian employees no later than Sept. 3.

Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's attorney focused on the former Army analyst's mental health and whether his superiors adequately probed his fitness to serve as the defense opened its case in the sentencing portion of his trial Monday.

Maureen McMahon, Anne Arundel schools assistant superintendent for advanced studies and programs, talks about STEM subjects with a passion akin to those who run music or theater departments.

Col. Brian P. Foley assumed command of Fort Meade during a ceremony Thursday morning.

Military members in same-sex relationships could get special leave to travel to states where they can be legally wed, the AP reports.

Cut the Pentagon's budget so local communities can flourish

The Pentagon on Tuesday cut the number of furlough days for 650,000 Defense Department civilians from 11 to six — a welcome surprise for workers who have been saddled with a 20 percent pay-cut since early July.

It has been almost a week since Havre de Grace businesses participating in the city's Furlough Friendly Community campaign began providing discounts to furloughed Aberdeen Proving Ground workers, and some businesses are starting to see interest from customers.

The general who led the Pentagon's review of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history told a military judge on Wednesday that their publication revealed tactics, strained relations with some allies and caused some Afghans to stop cooperating with Americans.

Doctors examine more than 8,000 bodies a year and determine why people die

A white grave marker in the Baltimore National Cemetery is all that remains of Edwin Nash Broyles Jr., a Navy fighter pilot, who lost his life in the waning hours of the Korean War that ended sixty years ago tomorrow.

Mindless budget cuts are hurting U.S. military's civilian workers and the nation's defense

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground is conducting training exercises this week that could involve weapons firing and related activities, the post announced.

Aberdeen Proving Ground is investigating a dead body found near Atkisson Dam in Abingdon Sunday afternoon.

Despite claims to the contrary, meat-cleaver approach to budget cutting is hurting plenty of Marylanders

Liz Hogan once quit swimming because it had consumed her life. A former prodigy from Northern California who first competed for a spot on the 1972 U.S. Olympic team at 15, Hogan retired before she turned 20. She had just finished her freshman year at UCLA after coming close to making the 1976 Olympic team as well.

Dr. Drexel M. Johnston, a retired Bel Air dentist who was an aviation enthusiast, died July 6 from complications of a stroke at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. He was 91.

Bipartisan proposal to crackdown on sexual assaults in the U.S. armed services gets a much-needed boost from two GOP senators

Washington will not come crashing to the ground if a majority of senators can confirm presidential appointments.

Corporate governance experts say celebrity directors can be highly beneficial, raising a company's profile and even its stock price. But that doesn't mean all boards should have a celebrity.

The Naval Academy Museum is now a casualty of Defense Department furloughs.

Mary Theresa Nipwoda, a lab technician at Aberdeen Proving Ground, did what she could to prepare for the 20-percent pay cut she knew was coming this week.

Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their defense of the Army analyst Monday by portraying him as a computer whiz operating under loose guidelines whose decision to leak reams of classified documents was based on a well-intentioned sense of idealism.

The University of Maryland University College announced Monday that the Department of Defense awarded it a 10-year contract to offer undergraduate and graduate courses to service members in Europe.

The Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center has placed an engineer on administrative leave after a civil rights organization accused him of having ties to white supremacy groups.

A soldier assigned to Fort Meade died on Tuesday in Afghanistan in a non-combat incident, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

In an aircraft hangar in Southern Maryland, a group of bosses dressed in slacks and polo shirts clustered around an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft. Like excited children, they peppered a Maryland National Guardsman with questions: How much does it cost? How far can it fly? Has one ever been lost?

The wrongs seem to greatly outnumber the rights these days

The 1,200 members of the Naval Academy Class of 2017 commit the next nine years of their lives to a military undergoing unprecedented change.

Federal budget trimming should attack wasteful spending, not veterans benefits

Our national security system's lack of checks and balances assures the abuse of power — unless a few brave souls step forward

The Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies are at it again: waging their friendly summer battle to see which can raise the most food for the annual Feds Feed Families charitable drive.

U.S. military should not put women in forward combat units

The Korean War is often known as the "forgotten war," but local veterans of the bloody three-year-conflict on the Korean Peninsula will be sharing their memories with Harford County residents this weekend, 60 years after the guns were silenced.

Robert Reich says the excesses of the NSA and of Wall Street banks have a surprising amount in common.