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Alaska's Stryker Brigade was scheduled to wrap up the state's biggest deployment since Vietnam, but instead the Department of Defense announced this week that the unit's deployment would be extended. One Stryker soldier is coming home. Sergeant Irving Hernandez was killed by sniper fire just a few weeks before his deployment was scheduled to end. Libby Casey of member station KUAC in Fairbanks has this remembrance.

Army Sgt. Tim Brumley says he had expected things to be pretty quiet in Afghanistan, where he was deployed last year after 10 months in Iraq. But he ended up losing his foot after being wounded in a major firefight with the Taliban.

Marine Gen. Michael Hagee is on his way to Iraq to talk to his troops about using lethal force "only when justified." The trip comes amid allegations that Marines killed unarmed Iraqi civilians in two separate incidents. The military has opened investigations into the deaths.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert demands a retraction from ABC News for reporting that he was involved in an investigation of a corrupt lobbyist -- even after the Justice Department had denied the report. Hastert has said that someone inside the Justice Department might have led ABC astray in an effort to intimidate him.

Barry Bonds hits a 445-foot home run off Colorado Rockies' pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim, delighting the home fans in San Francisco. His 715 career home runs put him second on the all-time list behind Henry Aaron, who passed Ruth in 1974 and finished with 755 home runs.

The judge in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial has halted testimony after being informed that a government lawyer shared trial testimony with upcoming witnesses, in violation of court rules. Brinkema calls the action a breach of the defendant's constitutional rights, and is considering what sanction against the government is appropriate.

Rep. Ted Budd, who has former President Donald Trump's endorsement, easily won the North Carolina GOP Senate primary, the AP reports. He will face Democrat Cheri Beasley in November.

While concerts have been back in South Korea since the beginning of the year, cheering was prohibited. With COVID restrictions lifting, fans are finally allowed to cheer again.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an impassioned speech via video at the Cannes film festival. He asked them to emulate Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in which he mocked Hitler.

Many businesses have relied on high sales volume to make a profit, but higher costs for wholesale goods and dwindling inventory because of supply chain disruptions are forcing them to raise prices.