The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
Program to Prevent Veteran Home Foreclosures Has Been Revived The Senate passed a bill to create what's known as a partial claims program that will essentially allow veterans with...
House Panel Adds Ban on Restoring Confederate Base Names as It Advances Major Defense Bill After hours of debate that culminated in a rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to restore Confederate names to...
Trump's Controversial Pick for Pentagon Personnel Chief Confirmed by Senate Tata is a retired Army brigadier general whose post-military career includes serving as a school district administrator in...
Mike Waltz Pledges to Make UN 'Great Again' at Senate Confirmation Hearing Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Waltz is facing lawmakers for the first time since he was ousted as...
Senators Seek Guardrails Against JAG Firings in Must-Pass Defense Policy Bill Firing a top military lawyer would require a congressional notification that includes a substantive justification under a...
Colonel Retaliated Against Major for Talking to Congress About Red Hill Contamination, Report Says The report said that investigators substantiated an allegation that an Air Force colonel had retaliated against Army Maj...
Sweeping Trump Agenda Bill with $157 Billion Defense Boost, Food Aid Cuts Approved by Congress The House voted 218-214 almost entirely along party lines on Thursday afternoon to pass the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill...
New Leader for US Forces in Middle East Confirmed by Senate In a vote over the weekend slipped in while senators remained in Washington to debate the Trump administration's mega...
House Republicans Are Pushing Trump's Big Bill to the Brink of Passage House Republicans are ready to vote on President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill early...
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...