VA Abortion Policy Faces Congressional, Legal Challenges Challenges are mounting to the VA's recently enacted abortion policy, intended to provide access to abortion services at VA...
Republicans Tee Up Challenge to Open Transgender Military Service Ahead of House Majority Republicans have railed against so-called "woke" policies they argue are contributing to the military's recruitment and...
Visa Program for Afghans Who Helped US Military in Danger of Lapsing After Exclusion from Defense Bill If the program isn't extended in a different bill, Afghans won't be able to apply for the visas after the program expires Dec...
21 Avenger Salute: Congress Sentences a Batch of A-10s to the Boneyard for the First Time in Decades A-10s from the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing will be retired and sent to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base...
Inside Google's Quest to Digitize Troops' Tissue Samples The tech giant has long sought access to a priceless trove of veterans’ skin samples, tumor biopsies and slices of organs...
Ukraine Aid on the Line as Defense Hawks Prepare for New Congress and 'Wokeness' Fight The Pentagon's biggest backers in Congress are making their case for a traditional view of robust funding for defense and...
GOP Lawmakers Trying to Cap Attorneys' Fees in Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Cases The move follows a deluge of television, radio and print ads from lawyers jockeying to represent veterans and their families.
Military's COVID Vaccine Mandate to Be Repealed by Annual Defense Bill The military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate would be repealed under a compromise must-pass annual defense bill unveiled Tuesday...
Bill to Help Deported Veterans and Non-Citizen Troops Clears House The bill, called the Veteran Service Recognition Act, would also add more hurdles to deporting non-citizen veterans.
Pentagon Getting First Senate-Confirmed Watchdog in 7 Years The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Robert Storch, the current inspector general at the National Security Agency, to become the...
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...
