During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class ...

The Iowa-class battleships were reactivated in the 1980s to counter the growing Soviet naval threat, particularly the ...

Léelo en español aquí. 16 units were destroyed as a result of the fire, according to the town’s police chief. The residents of those units are being helped by the Red Cross. Five police ...

The Montana-class battleships, authorized in 1941 but never built, were intended to be the last of their kind for the U.S.

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Fire broke out on a Japanese warship sailing near the western part of the country, causing one crew member to be hospitalized due to smoke inhalation, while another was ...

2ND UPDATE, 1:15 PM: The Mountain Fire north of Los Angeles continues to grow in the hills northeast of Los Angeles. As of Friday morning, Cal Fire reported more than 20,630 acres burned with only ...

The fire came amid an unseasonably warm November. A wind-whipped Southern California brush fire that exploded to over 20,000 acres in about 24 hours, destroying homes and prompting mass ...

(Image courtesy of ABC7) Firefighters stopped the forward progress of a brush fire in Malibu early Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 6, after it charred 40 acres and threatened two structures. Also see ...

"It’s like trying to put out a blowtorch with a squirt gun," fire department captain Tony McHale told KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Camarillo Heights Elementary School was evacuated, according to a ...

For the last several years, efforts to reform gun laws have stalled, largely limited to blue states restricting the purchase of semiautomatic rifles and large-capacity magazines or strengthening “red ...

The Broad Fire on the coast in California near Malibu has spread to a size of about 50 acres near seaside homes. The fire located inside Los Angeles County was reported at about 9 a.m. PT ...