BY Katie Lange Army Master Sgt. Wilburn Ross, Medal of Honor recipient. Photo By: Army photo Few World War II veterans can say they earned not just America's highest medal for valor, but France's as well. Army Pvt. Wilburn Ross…

BY David Vergun Most people know about the D-Day Normandy landings of June 6, 1944, associated with Operation Overlord. Lesser known are the allied landings on France's Mediterranean coast that took place Aug. 15 to Sept. 14, 1944, dubbed Operation…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – EPA Region 10 Administrator Chris Hladick withdrew the Obama Administration's preemptive veto of the proposed Pebble Mine Project in Southwest Alaska on July 30, 2019. The Pebble Mine: The Pebble Mine is a proposed copper, gold and…

ADOT MVD urges Arizonans to get the Travel ID With approximately 300 business days left until Oct. 1, 2020, the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division is urging customers not to delay getting the Travel ID to ensure they…

WASHINGTON—U.S.Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called on the National Education Association (NEA) to drop its politically-motivated lawsuit and stop standing in the way of students working to complete their postsecondary education program. The NEA recently sued the department over its…

'FYI' Initiative to offer housing vouchers to at-risk young people facing homelessness WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced a new initiative to target housing assistance to young people aging out of foster care…

A former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives was sentenced today after pleading guilty to wire fraud and willfully violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by operating fraudulent and unregistered political action committees. Harold Russell Taub, 30, of…

SALTON CITY, Calif. – El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents working at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint arrested a woman suspected of smuggling methamphetamine on Friday morning. The incident occurred at approximately 9:10 a.m., when a 47-year-old woman driving a…

LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents on Wednesday evening discovered 31 individuals in a smuggling attempt at the immigration checkpoint on Interstate Highway 35 north of Laredo, Texas. The incident occurred on July 17, when agents encountered a…

LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers intercepted a significant amount of hard narcotics with an estimated street value of more than $6.6 million in one enforcement action at World Trade Bridge.…

Scott A. Wirtz poses for a photo with Stewie while deployed in August 2018. (Photo illustration by Alex Gikas, DIA Public Affairs) JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, D.C. — Scott A. Wirtz, a Defense Intelligence Agency civilian, was killed during a terrorist…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has completed construction of approximately 50 miles of new bollard wall projects authorized by funding from fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Since January 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs…