United States Military Academy News

Kaitlyn Kelly of Chicago reacts after receiving her diploma during Saturday's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. At West Point, the alumni gay advocacy group Knights Out was able to hold the first installment in March of what is intended to be an annual dinner in recognition of gay and lesbian ... (more)

The United Nations action over a massacre this weekend of at least 108 villagers was the strongest yet allowed by Russia, which has blocked criticism of Syria's president.

Special to The TelegraphCornelia Lawson sits in her room dedicated to her late husband’s memory.

The US Vice President, Joe Biden, has suggested the Obama administration should put in place new policies to reinforce US influence through Asia.

Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in... The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people dead, ... (more)

Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.

Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, has become a carefree day to decompress, a time for picnics and beach outings and backyard barbeques.

Chiawana's C.J. Edrington is attending The U.S. Military Academy at West Point after graduating as the Riverhawks' salutatorian.

Gay midshipmen, from left, Caitlin Bryant, Kay Moore, Nick Bonsall and Andrew Atwill gather at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

The judge in the case of a former Rutgers student who used a webcam to see his roommate kiss another man has released more than 100 letters he received about the case.

In a commencement address that often echoed his campaign pitch, Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday offered graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy a full-throated espousal of President Barack Obama's foreign policy.

In a commencement address that often echoed his campaign pitch, Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday offered graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy a full-throated espousal of President Barack Obama's foreign policy.

The U.S. Military Academy will commission about 1,000 Army second lieutenants in a ceremony Saturday morning at West Point's football stadium.

The public is invited to Cornwall Public Library on June 5 to hear Maj. Joseph C. Scott, an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Civil War historian, give a presentation titled "The Peninsula Campaign: 150 Years Later." "George McClellan's use of the Union's overwhelming advantages in manpower, firepower and mobility brought ... (more)

Author Sherman Fleek has written a book that recounts the lives and heroic deeds of LDS soldiers who have received the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration the United States can bestow.

Six Bluffton High School seniors will be among 32 from county schools to be featured in a television program on Friday night.

Cadet Ian Quinn from Kenmore graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on May 26.

The A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrated the success stories of more than 3,700 new graduates at its Spring Commencement, May 20, at the U.S. Cellular Arena.

It's fine for a military office to play the role of professor -- but not if that means allowing "special arrangements" that corrupt intellectual freedom.