Like its predecessor, the carrier is being built in Newport News. The Navy sold the original JFK to International Shipbreaking Limited/EMR Brownsville in 2021 for one cent. The work was expected ...

Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the USS JFK was used in a number of operations during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was later used as a training platform before being ...

A long-serving aircraft carrier, one that started its life in Hampton Roads, is in its final days. The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) left Philadelphia Thursday for its final voyage.

The USS JFK's departure was originally scheduled for Jan. 15, but was postponed because of high winds. Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, the USS JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed ...

Over the next several decades, the USS JFK had 18 deployments in the Mediterranean, the Navy said. It was also used for air security in the mid-Atlantic Ocean following the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

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"Big John," as it was affectionately nicknamed, was decommissioned in 2007 and has been in Philadelphia ever since. A new aircraft carrier named after JFK will enter service later this year.

During the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi today, Senator John Kennedy blasted U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, stating "that kind of stupid takes a plan." Small medical transport plane ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy, known as "Big John," is set to leave the Philadelphia Navy Yard for Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled. The departure, originally planned on Wednesday ...

Shirley Ellen Holt Kinsey, 92, of Milton, passed away Sunday, January 12, 2025, at Heritage Springs Memory Care surrounded by her family. Born November 6, 1932, in Easton, she was a daughter of the ...

There were five minutes to go until half-time in the North London derby and the atmosphere at The Emirates was on the verge of turning ugly. Not the kind of ugliness that defaced the last days of ...

Today, all American aircraft carriers use nuclear power, whereas the USS JFK was powered by marine diesel fuel. The ship remained in service for nearly four decades, conducting 18 deployments around ...