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Lawmakers on Wednesday questioned President Trump’s promise to build the Navy to a 350-ship fleet, grilling service officials on the administration’s fiscal 2018 budget and its lack of capital for such a feat.   Sen. MORE (R-Maine) asked Navy Acting Secretary Sean Stackley about the White House FY-18 budget, released Tuesday, which asks for eight new vessels.

A United States Navy war ship neared an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea on Wednesday in the first U.S. freedom of navigation operation under the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported. The maneuver was conducted near Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, which are the subjects of territorial disputes between China and other countries in the region. The freedom of navigation operation is a signal intended by the U.S.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office in Montana convened a press conference on the eve of Montana’s pivotal special election, following allegations that a GOP congressional candidate “body slammed” a reporter. "The main reason why we're having this press conference right now, I need to ask you, all of the media and the public to stop calling our dispatch center," Gootkin said Wednesday night, talking with reporters for about 10 minutes. "They're being inundated with phone calls from the public and from you folks and that is absolutely impeding their business ...

Three Fox News reporters said late Wednesday that they witnessed GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte body slam The Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs earlier in the evening, confirming Jacobs's account of the incident. "Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him.

Former Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D) ripped GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte on Wednesday following reports that he had "body slammed" a reporter, saying that he went 60 years in Congress without doing just that. "Hell, I spent 60 years in Congress without bodyslamming a single reporter," Dingell tweeted Wednesday night.

LONDON — For Chris Parker, the arena’s entrance area might have seemed like a good place to ask people for money.

■ Salman Abedi was most likely part of a “network” that might have helped him carry out the Manchester bombing that killed 22 people and that could be planning further assaults, British officials said on Wednesday. ■ Mr. Abedi’s younger brother, Hashem, 20, was arrested in Libya by a powerful Islamist militia that has accused him of being a member of the Islamic State.

MANCHESTER, England — The police accelerated their hunt Wednesday for co-plotters of the Manchester concert bombing, making at least a half-dozen arrests in Britain, searching for a possible clandestine bomb factory and extending the investigation to Libya, where two of the bomber’s relatives were detained. The developments indicated that the bomber, Salman Abedi, 22, was part of a wider and more sophisticated plot than was initially thought and that finding the bomb’s origins had now become a priority in a country still reeling from the terrorist attack, the worst in Britain in more than a de

MANCHESTER, England — The police accelerated their hunt Wednesday for co-plotters of the Manchester concert bombing, making at least a half-dozen arrests in Britain, searching for a possible clandestine bomb factory and extending the investigation to Libya, where two of the bomber’s relatives were detained. The developments indicated that the bomber, Salman Abedi, 22, was part of a wider and more sophisticated plot than was initially thought and that finding the bomb’s origins had now become a priority in a country still reeling from the terrorist attack, the worst in Britain in more than a de

What if you carried a genetic mutation that left you nearly impervious to heart disease? What if scientists could bottle that miracle and use it to treat everyone else? In a series of studies, the most recent published on Wednesday, scientists have described two rare genetic mutations that reduce levels of triglycerides, a type of blood fat, far below normal.