NCC Harsh

It had been nearly five years since Winston Churchill had declared that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” and plunged the West in a Cold War and a hot race for armament with the East. Yet worlds away from Washington and Moscow, in a remote outpost 40 miles west of Idaho Falls, Idaho, a town would soon become home to America’s first nuclear accident. On Jan. 3, 1961, operators f...[Read More]

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to U.S. Southern Command to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compr...[Read More]

Roberto Garcia, a Navy seaman, was killed aboard the USS California when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After nearly 84 years, his remains have finally returned to his Texas home.

Roberto Garcia, a Navy seaman, was killed aboard the USS California when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After nearly 84 years, his remains have finally returned to his Texas home.

A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area — the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents — was shot at by law enforcement officers and wounded, authorities said Friday. The driver was being held for a mental health evaluation after “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram into Coast Guard Base Alameda” on Thursday night, the U.S. Dep...[Read More]

The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel and leaving six people dead in the Caribbean. In a social media post, Hegseth said the strike occurred overnight, and it marks the second time the Trump administration has tied one of its operations to the gang, wh...[Read More]

Wounded soldiers glowing with a greenish-blue. Those soldiers inexplicably recovering more quickly than others. A Halloween tale for this time of year? No, it was a true episode from the Civil War – the Battle of Shiloh – and one that was only explained many years later, in 2001, in part by two high school students in a Maryland suburb outside Washington. The story begins on April 6, 1...[Read More]

The Cost of Living Adjustment for 2026 will be 2.8%, a few ticks higher than the 2025 COLA, Social Security Administration officials announced Friday. The long-awaited COLA announcement sets the rate of increase for Social Security beneficiaries, but also for military retirees and people receiving veterans benefits. The increase goes into effect in January. The government shutdown delayed the anno...[Read More]