Music
The family of late musician Aaron Carter plans to spread his remains in Florida with those of his late sister Leslie, who died in 2012.
Nov. 29, 2022
Opinion
Don’t reinstate the draft or establish mandatory national public service, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says. What the U.S. needs instead is an ethos of public service.
Sept. 1, 2019
World & Nation
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Friday, saying the U.S. remains committed to supporting the Afghan government against a resilient insurgency.
Dec. 9, 2016
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter touched down Friday at Moffett Federal Airfield for his second appearance in four months to reassure Silicon Valley that the Pentagon views the region as an essential part of national defense.
Aug. 28, 2015
Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the military to open all combat jobs to women, rebuffing attempts by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs.
Dec. 3, 2015
Business
A Carter Hawley Hale Stores stockholder has filed suit against the company, charging that its recently announced restructuring plan, which thwarted a takeover effort, will keep shareholders from realizing potential profits.
Dec. 15, 1986
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has so far played no role in the U.S. discussions with Russia over its military build-up in Syria and the complications that could have on coalition airstrikes against Islamic State militants there.
Sept. 15, 2015
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi by phone from this U.S. ship Saturday to send his sympathies over an airstrike from a coalition warplane that killed nine Iraqi soldiers, the first friendly-fire deaths since the U.S. joined the battle against Islamic State more than a year ago.
Dec. 19, 2015
Secretary of Defence Ash Carter said on Sunday that it was important to continue trying to resolve the issues surrounding North Korea’s nuclear program through six-party talks.
Nov. 2, 2015
A massive volcanic eruption 250,000 years ago shot dust and ash into the atmosphere and probably caused a winter like that expected by many scientists to follow a nuclear war, according to New Zealand geologists.
Jan. 5, 1986