Lawmakers Still Hunting for $55B for Expanded VA Health Care Options Senate leaders say they’re confident the money will be found.
House Passes Major Overhaul of Veterans Choice Program The House passed major veterans legislation to extend and reform the Veterans Choice Program to allow more private care...
House to Vote on Major VA Overhaul for Private Care Option The bill's passage would mark a major victory for the White House in the long-running battle over the Choice program.
Vets Groups Back Congress' Second Try on Choice, Caregiver Programs Major vets groups backed efforts to extend Choice and expand the caregivers program.
Lawmakers Again Attempt to Block F-35 Sale to Turkey For the second time in two years, lawmakers are attempting to block the sale of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Turkey.
Vets Groups Weigh In on Jackson Nomination Amid Allegations The groups warn of festering problems amid the leadership vacuum at the VA.
Congress May Require Military to Make Top Brass Misconduct Public The document contained language requiring all substantiated investigations of senior leader misconduct to be made public.
Mattis, House Subcommittee Back 2.6 Percent Military Pay Raise The 2.6 percent military pay raise for fiscal 2019 appeared set for easy passage by Congress.
Army Urban Combat Training Lacks Realism, Lawmakers Say Members of the HASC said that urban warfare training isn't realistic enough to prep soldiers for dense megacity battlefields.
Lawmaker: Is the Army Paying Too Much for its New Ultra-Light Vehicle? Army officials had to explain why the new, ultra-light combat vehicles the service plans to field are so expensive.
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...