Beyoncé is expected to appear Friday in her hometown of Houston at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris.

A lawmaker from the far-right Freedom Party has been elected as the new speaker of Austria’s parliament, weeks after the party won a national election for the first time.

The community is invited to attend a Freedom's Eve Service at Historic Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church December 31.  Watch Night:  A Gullah Geechee Emancipation Day Celebration runs from noon to 2pm.  There will be a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, music, history, food and more.

After months away at sea, some crew members from the USS Indianapolis are back home at the Naval Station Mayport — just in time for Christmas.

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.

The Navy has commissioned the USS Cooperstown, named for the New York state village where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located and honoring the 70 members who served in the military during wartime.

Despite a night of good vibes and performances by some of the music industry's biggest stars, the Grammy Awards barely moved the needle in television ratings.

As part of its budget proposal for the 2023 fiscal year, the U.S. Navy will seek to decommission eight to 10 of its Freedom class littoral combat ships, according to a report by Politico, which cites three people with knowledge of the proposal.

Thousands of people have marched through the Czech Republic’s capital to protest against compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for certain groups and professions.

A wayward roadrunner is on the mend in Maine after traveling across the country in a moving van.

An activist holds a placard reading Freedom guides all people during a gathering in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key vote Tuesday on the draft law, which is expected to win approval in both houses of parliament. 2 religion even though the majority of French Muslims do not espouse extremist views.

MAYPORT, Fla. – The sailors on the USS Sioux City and their families enjoyed a happy reunion Friday morning when the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship returned home from deployment. Sailor Matthew Ciereck meets his 2-month-old son for the first time after returning from a four-month deployment on the USS Sioux City. Families welcomed home the crew of the USS Sioux City, which returned to Mayport on Friday morning after a four-month deployment. USS Sioux City is attached to U.S. 2nd Fleet and is one of four deployable littoral combat ships under Surface Division Two One. Families welcomed home the crew of the USS Sioux City, which returned to Mayport on Friday morning after a four-month deployment.

MAYPORT, Fla. - The Navy's newest littoral combat ship sailed into its new home port Wednesday as Naval Station Mayport welcomes the USS Billings. We will have unmanned boats, unmanned helicopters and unmanned submarines." For years after that, the defense department kept saying the long-range plan was to base another carrier at Mayport. While there's still no carrier at Mayport and none of the needed upgrades were completed, DoD has made Mayport a major home port for these Littoral Combat Ships. The Navy expects 14 of these small ships to be based at Mayport.