Lawmakers File Bills to Create Space National Guard, Taking Trump Up on Promise The creation of a Space National Guard is getting a groundswell of support from Congress as bipartisan groups of lawmakers...
Fired Veterans and VA Employees Would Be Reinstated to Federal Jobs Under Senate Proposal Department of Veterans Affairs employees and veterans fired from other agencies as part of the Trump administration's...
GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Would Fund Next Month's Junior Enlisted Pay Raise A House Republican plan to keep the federal government open past Friday by putting most agencies' funding on autopilot...
In Letter Accusing VA Secretary of 'Cover-Up,' Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE-Led VA Firings A group of Senate Democrats is demanding answers on the Department of Veterans Affairs' recent firings of 2,400 probationary...
Panama President Calls Trump's Talk of 'Reclaiming' the Panama Canal a Lie Panama President José Raúl Mulino accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when he said in his address to Congress that...
Pentagon Nominee Pushed to Acknowledge Russian Invasion of Ukraine in Senate Hearing Elbridge Colby on multiple occasions declined to answer directly whether Russia invaded Ukraine, saying it’s a sensitive...
Congress Demands Answers from Hegseth on Army Misappropriating Millions Meant for Food A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for answers on the Army's handling of meal funds...
Trump's Pick as NATO Ambassador Says US Commitment to the Alliance Is 'Ironclad' Matt Whitaker, an acting attorney general in Trump’s first term, told senators that a key part of his mission would be to...
GOP Chairmen Brush Off Call for Immediate Hearings on Firings of Top Military Leaders An urgent plea by five former defense secretaries for Congress to immediately hold hearings on the recent and unexplained...
Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts...
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...
