Senate Passes Bill to Pay Military in Shutdown The Senate on Monday followed the House's lead in clearing the way for servicemembers and Defense Department civilians to...
Troops' Pay Protected as Government Shuts Down U.S. lawmakers voted to continue paying troops as part of a last-minute budget deal before the midnight deadline that saw the...
Government Shutdown Freezes Key VA Services While the Department of Veterans Affairs will not shut down all operations, many will be hit by the shutdown.
Shutdown Snarls Troop Bonuses, Tuition Assistance Troops will still get regular paychecks amid the government shutdown, but may not receive other important forms of...
Shutdown Spurs MoH Recipient to Run for Congress The government shutdown appears to have spurred a Medal of Honor recipient to go into politics -- first Congress and then the...
Disgust Spreads Across DoD in Shutdown's First Day Troops, civilians, contractors and families began to feel the fallout following the first government shutdown since the mid...
Shutdown Threatens Air Force-Navy Football Game The sold out Air Force-Navy football game scheduled for Saturday in Annapolis, Md. will be canceled unless Congress can come...
VSOs Working Vet Claims Through Shutdown The country's largest veterans' service organizations are not only continuing to help veterans with disability claims...
Military 'Danger Pay' Still On Hold The DoD hasn't decided on whether troops in Afghanistan will keep receiving the extra $7.50 a day they rate for hazardous...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
