As US Troops Take Fire in Middle East, Lawmakers Consider Billions in New Funding A long-awaited bipartisan Senate agreement to provide funding for the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine in exchange for U.S...
Pentagon Would Have to Study Difficulties of Troops and Spouses Getting Maternity Care Under New Bill Lawmakers hope the bills will ultimately improve access to prenatal, birthing and postpartum care for those covered by...
Immediate Action Needed to Boost Military Pay and Improve Housing, Senior Enlisted Leaders Tell Congress Pressed by House panel Chairman Don Bacon to identify the top two quality-of-life issues facing their services, all the...
Pregnant Troops and New Military Moms Would Get Expanded Mental Health Care Under Lawmakers’ Proposal The bill comes after a Government Accountability Office report in 2022 found service members face mental health conditions...
Open-Ended Military Campaign Against Houthis Needs Congress' Approval, Senators Tell Biden As a U.S. campaign of military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen shows no signs of ending soon and questions mount about...
Sen. Bill Bradley Was an Air Force Vet, Olympian and 2-Time NBA Champion Professional politician, professional athlete, profession of arms: Bill Bradley did it all.
Defense Secretary Austin Summoned to Capitol Hill for Testimony About Secret Hospitalization If Austin agrees to testify, it could be the first public airing of his thought process since the Pentagon disclosed earlier...
Top Enlisted Leaders for Each Service Set to Testify on Quality-of-Life Issues at House Hearing The hearing is the first public meeting of the panel since a September hearing on housing conditions, and for some of the...
Whistleblowers Say VA Managers Made Lewd Sexual Advances. Now, the Agency Has Been Subpoenaed by Congress. The investigation centers on allegations from whistleblowers who approached the committee about what they described as...
Spate of Osprey Mishaps, Including Air Force's Most Deadly, Will Be Investigated by Federal Watchdog The Government Accountability Office agreed to look into the incidents following a request last month by Reps. John Garamendi...
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...
