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A 22-year-old U.S. Marine Corps reservist with a suspicious backpack prompted authorities to temporarily close major roads around the Pentagon on Friday, but bomb experts determined it did not contain explosives. The FBI said Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, was taken into custody for...

Daniel Ellsberg, center, former military analyst who released the "Pentagon Papers" joins the anti-war protest. Washington -- Police arrested more than a hundred protesters during an anti-war demonstration outside the White House fence Thursday. The event was part of a rally that also was in...

Some estimates put the cost of the F-35 at more than $380 billion. Washington -- The Defense Department reviewed its most expensive weapon Monday, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. A defense acquisition board, known as a DAB, met behind closed doors at the Pentagon to examine the project that...

Washington-- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered an investigation into a leak to the Washington Post about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Post earlier this week reported that more than 70 percent of service members surveyed about the policy regarding gay men and lesbians in...

Washington -- The same weapon was used in three recent incidents of shots fired at military buildings, including the Pentagon, the FBI said Thursday. Tests at the FBI Laboratory showed that the Tuesday night shooting at a vacant Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Virginia, involved...

Gates proposes rearranging $15B ABILENE, Kan., (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday he wants to take $15 billion from the Pentagon's bureaucracy and and use it for other purposes. Speaking to an audience at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kan., Gates said...

A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at a security checkpoint into the Pentagon on Thursday in a point-blank attack that wounded two police officers before the suspect was fatally shot. The two officers suffered grazing wounds and were being treated in a hospital, said...

Gates to unveil Pentagon budget on Monday WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will unveil the Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2010 on Monday, taking the Defense Department in a fundamentally different direction, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. "He plans to...

Gates said eyeing early arms-program disclosures By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday he had been told Defense Secretary Robert Gates may announce decisions on the fate of major arms programs as soon as next week, ahead of a detailed fiscal 2010 budget...