U.S. Navy

A UK-born man charged over a series of deadly shootings in DeKalb County, Georgia, that claimed the lives of three people, including a DHS employee who was walking her dog, died in jail Tuesday night.

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman on Thursday shared a glimpse into the moment after he and his fellow astronauts returned from their historic mission circling the moon.

President Donald Trump’s blockade of Iranian ports brings a tremendous amount of air and sea power to bear against the difficult task of ensuring that no ships enter or leave Iranian ports.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), has set a new record for the longest post-Vietnam War-era deployment. A nearly 10-month span at sea has seen it add to both the military raid in Venezuela and Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that starting Monday, the United States Navy will block ships from entering or exiting Iranian ports.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier that has been part of Middle East war operations, arrived at the Croatian city of Split on Saturday, the US embassy said in a statement.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that the U.S. Navy will “soon” begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz to protect them from Iranian terrorist attacks.

An American airstrike has destroyed Iran’s quirky attempt at building an aircraft carrier, which was only commissioned last year. 

A defiant Iran despatched a second warship towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters Thursday, barely 24-hours after a U.S. submarine destroyed an Iranian Navy frigate in the area, killing at least 84 sailors, a minister told parliament.

You’ll be sorry. That was the warning from Iran to the U.S. on Thursday as it responded to the torpedoing of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, with a Muslim leader adding a call for “Trump’s blood.”

An Iranian warship in international waters was sunk overnight by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said. 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is threatening to “burn” any oil tanker that attempts to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States Navy will escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary and directed the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to provide war-risk insurance for maritime shipping in the Persian Gulf

Operation against Iran has entered third day, with strikes against targets inside Iran and interceptions against Iranian aircraft ongoing.

President told Iranian armed forces to lay down their arms or face “certain death” as “major” strikes against Tehran commenced. 

As high-stakes nuclear negotiations resumed Tuesday in Geneva under mounting U.S. military pressure, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei taunted President Donald Trump and warned that American warships could be sent “to the bottom of the sea,” denouncing the United States as a “corrupt, oppressive empire” in decline.

Iran claims the drone shot down by the USS Abraham Lincoln was conducting a “routine and lawful mission over international waters.”

Former U.S. Navy sailor Jinchao Wei, 25, was sentenced to 200 months in prison on Monday for selling technical data on American ships to Chinese intelligence agents.

Two Chinese men were reportedly involved in a fake marriage scheme in which they married two U.S. Navy servicewomen to obtain green cards, according to a report from the New York Times.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced administrative action against retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly, citing public statements from the second half of 2025 that the Department of War says were “seditious” and encouraged service members to disobey lawful orders.

President Donald Trump announced Monday the United States is building two battleships for its Navy, which he said will be the largest battleships “in the history of the world.”

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered work to begin on a replacement for his country’s flagship, the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.

In a stealth operation carried out before dawn on Dec. 20, the U.S. Coast Guard—working alongside the Department of War—seized an oil tanker last seen in the terrorist state of Venezuela. The United States accused the ship’s operators of moving sanctioned crude to fuel narco‑terror activity. Officials issued a stark warning to traffickers: “We will find you, and we will stop you.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Thursday evening accused the United States of “stealing” the recently seized oil tanker — claiming the situation is “like Pirates of the Caribbean.”

Officials of Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime claimed President Donald Trump “confessed” to having “stolen” a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.

U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces carried out a lethal kinetic strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four suspected narco‑terrorists and destroying their heavily laden smuggling vessel. The attack, directed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth under Operation Southern Spear, marks the 22nd strike against cartel‑linked traffickers in international waters and brings the total number of narco‑terrorists killed to nearly 90. The strikes continue despite harsh criticism from some lawmakers in Congress.

Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer, spent Thanksgiving with Sailors and Marines stationed at sea, where the Secretary of War delivered a message of gratitude from the pilot house of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

A U.S. Navy sailor from Florida died on Saturday while rescuing two children from a high surf in Hawaii waters.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned “interference of external forces in Venezuela’s internal affairs” during its regular press briefing on Wednesday, demanding that the United States “engage in normal law enforcement” rather than military operations to stop organized drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea.

San Francisco health officials are asking why they were not warned about elevated radiation levels detected last year at an inactive U.S. Navy shipyard in the city.

Speaking to U.S. troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said his interdiction of drug shipments in the Caribbean has been so successful that “we can’t find a ship” loaded with drugs any more.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed a lively audience of U.S. Navy Sailors in Virginia to commemorate the military branch’s 250th anniversary, reiterating President Donald Trump’s emphasis on “America first, and peace through strength” and blasting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

President Donald Trump vowed that he would get United States military service members “every last penny” as the government shutdown stretched into its fifth day.

A World War II veteran in Tallahassee, Florida, recently celebrated a big birthday surrounded by his loved ones.

Retired U.S. Navy captain and former Virginia Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao was confirmed to serve as the Under Secretary of the U.S. Navy in a 52-45 vote by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.