Senate Trying to Block Military Transfers Based on Potentially Discriminatory State Laws The military would be barred from considering state laws in deciding where to station service members under an amendment...
Navy Would Test Saving Money by Offering Meat Alternatives Under House Bill Options for vegan meat substitutes could be coming to Navy chow halls overseas under a pilot program recently advanced by...
House Panel Approves Expansion of GI Bill Eligibility After Sparring over COVID Vaccine The House Veterans Affairs Committee advanced the bill along largely party lines after lawmakers sparred over the military's...
House Approves Higher Inflation Bonuses as Sweeping Defense Bill Advances The Pentagon would have the ability to give low-paid service members inflation bonuses as high as economic conditions warrant...
Oath Keepers Claimed to Be a Veteran Support Group but Is a Dangerous Militia, Former Member Tells Jan. 6 Panel The hearing was the latest in the House Jan. 6 Committee investigation into the violent 2021 attack on the Capitol by Trump...
Lawmaker Trying to Nearly Triple 'Inflation Bonuses' in Exchange for Missile Funding Cuts Bonuses service members could get to help cope with inflation would be nearly tripled under a proposal from a progessive...
16 Deported Vets, Family Members Temporarily Allowed Back Into US in the Last Year, DHS Says Sixteen immigrant veterans and service members' relatives who were deported have been allowed back into the United States...
Inflation Bonuses for Troops Make it into Sweeping Defense Bill Bonuses to help low-paid service members cope with rising consumer prices are a step closer to reality.
Nonprofits Are Filling a Void of Fertility Help for Service Members, But Hope Congress Steps Up Advocates say the Defense Department should be more proactive with fertility services for young service members to prevent...
Congress Eyes Extra Pay to Counter Wave of Suicides in Alaska and on Ships in the Yard The latest NDAA would provide new $200 monthly stipends to sailors on ships undergoing nuclear refueling and $300 stipends to...
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...
