Refusing to recuse himself from 23 lawsuits claiming widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of a radiation-contaminated shipyard, a federal judge said Friday a Navy contractor’s claim of bias against him “borders on the frivolous.”
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit dismissed an appeal Tuesday finding it lacks jurisdiction to consider the case of hundreds of U.S. sailors who were exposed to radiation while on a humanitarian mission following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.
Read moreThe United States downed an Iranian drone that was threatening a U.S. ship in the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Read moreWashington state sued the U.S. Navy on environmental grounds, for authorizing a 33% increase in EA-18G Growler aircraft operations at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound.
Read moreThe four-star admiral set to become the Navy’s top officer on Aug. 1 will retire instead, an extraordinary downfall prompted by what Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Sunday called poor judgment regarding a professional relationship.
Read moreA military jury sentenced Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher to four months of confinement Wednesday for posing for a photo with the corpse of an Islamic State Group fighter, the only charge he was convicted of following a two-week court-martial.
Read moreJurors exonerated Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher of premeditated murder charges Tuesday, after a day of deliberations in the nationally watched court-martial of war crimes accusations in the 2017 stabbing of an Islamic State fighter in Mosul, Iraq.
Read moreProsecutors and attorneys for Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher presented their closing arguments in a nationally watched court-martial Monday, with both sides zeroing in on conflicting text messages exchanged by teammates of the SEAL Team 7 Alpha Platoon.
Read moreIt was called the “The Sewing Circle,” an unlikely name for a secret subsect of Navy SEALs. Its purpose was even more improbable: A chat forum to discuss alleged war crimes they said their chief, a decorated sniper and medic, committed on a recent tour of duty in Iraq.
Read moreThe video deposition of a general with the Iraqi Emergency Response Division was shown in the court-martial of Edward Gallagher Thursday, complicating the convoluted testimony in the case when he said he never saw Gallagher kill an adolescent Islamic State solider he’s accused of stabbing.
Read moreA Navy SEAL master chief testified Wednesday that platoon members of Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher complained about Gallagher allegedly stabbing a teenage Islamic State solider soon after returning from deployment to Iraq in 2017.
Read moreOne of President Donald Trump’s personal attorneys, tapped by Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher to defend him in a war crimes court-martial, questioned the Navy’s lead agent in charge of the criminal investigation as the prosecution rested Tuesday.
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Expletive-filled group text messages between teammates of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher were revealed in court Friday, including one in which a SEAL unhappy with the war crimes court martial proceedings threatened to burn the courthouse to the ground.
Read moreA witness called to testify against a fellow Navy SEAL charged with murder has admitted that he killed the victim — a wounded Islamic State fighter — in an act of mercy, a bombshell that didn’t deter the military from its case.
Read moreNavy SEAL colleagues of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher testified against him Wednesday, claiming they witnessed their deployment leader shoot an elderly Iraqi civilian and stab an adolescent Islamic State group fighter in the neck, killing him.
Read moreThe war crimes trial of a Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a wounded Islamic State soldier in the neck and taking pictures with the corpse began Tuesday in a courtroom on Naval Base San Diego.
Read moreThe trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care begins Monday after months of turmoil in one of the Navy’s most prominent war crimes cases.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Thursday he will likely OK expanding a lawsuit claiming widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of a radiation-contaminated shipyard to include two other sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read moreTwo oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were reportedly attacked on Thursday, leaving one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels and the U.S. Navy rushed to assist amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Read moreThe head of the U.S. Naval War College was removed from his post Monday, days after The Associated Press reported he was under investigation for allegations of mismanagement.
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