The USS Gerald R. Ford, flagship of the Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 12, departed Naval Station Norfolk around 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Families waving signs and banners watched a quartet of tugs push the world’s largest warship off the pier and on to its ...

The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers are the backbone of its naval power, and the Gerald R. Ford class represents the largest and most formidable class ever built. Named after the 38th president of the U ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and the ships that make up its strike group deployed Tuesday to the European Theater, ...

The U.S. was already planning to deploy the carrier Gerald R. Ford when U.S. warplanes bombed three Iranian sites early ...

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said the U.S. already has about 40,000 troops in the region. The Ford Strike Group will bring an ...

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a ...

The $13 billion aircraft carrier set sail for at least seven months. Navy officials say it is not a direct response to current tensions between Iran and Israel.

Florida's attorney general says the facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades.

The United States' most advanced aircraft carrier leaves Virginia for a regularly scheduled deployment that could put it near ...