The helicopter’s altitude-measuring instrument was also inaccurate, investigators said at the first of three days of hearings examining the January crash.
A Marine commander in Japan has asked troops in Okinawa to keep a low profile to show respect after a sailor allegedly stabbed a Japanese woman and then killed himself.
In a decision decried as “deeply flawed” and a “devastating blow for victims,” International Criminal Court judges on Friday rejected a request by the court’s prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan and alleged crimes by U.S. forces linked to the conflict.
A Trump administration regulation set to go into effect Friday bars transgender people from the military unless they “correct those deficiencies,” a description the American Medical Association said Thursday is unfair and defies science.
The United States said Sunday it has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to “security conditions on the ground,” as a Libyan military commander’s forces advanced toward the capital, Tripoli, clashing with rival militias.