Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The average cost of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon's costliest purchase ever, will be over 50 percent higher than projected when the program began nine years ago, the Pentagon's top arms buyer told Congress. The U.S. Air Force is about to formally notify Congress that the program has crashed through ...

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, American lawmakers paid tribute Wednesday to the pioneering but long-overlooked role played by women pilots in the US Air Force. About 1,000 women piloted fighter planes in the United States from 1942 to 1944 when they joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, dubbed the WASPs. Their mission was ...