Coast Guard's $13.8 Billion Budget Request Includes a Commercial Icebreaker The budget, up 2.7% from current funding levels, provides money for a 4.6% pay increase and funds for ship construction and...
Increase to Maximum Life Insurance Payout for Service Members, Veterans Clears Senate Service members and veterans would be able to boost their life insurance coverage by $100,000 under a bill passed by the...
If Russia Uses a WMD in Ukraine, the Fallout Could Trigger a NATO Response, Key Lawmaker Says Ukraine is not a NATO member, but several of its neighbors, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, are.
Army Officer Tulsi Gabbard Faces Ire for Peddling Russian Disinformation About Ukraine Biolabs The unproven allegations that the U.S. is assisting Ukraine in the creation of new bioweapons were denied by various members...
Scuttled Plan to Give Polish Jets to Ukraine Stirs Frustration on Capitol Hill Lawmakers in both parties are writing letters, going on television and grilling officials at hearings after the...
These Members of Congress Could Make a Profit on US Arms Shipments to Ukraine The stock holdings by members of Congress come as the U.S. is preparing to send billions of dollars in defense aid to Ukraine...
President Pushing Congress to Pass Burn Pit Legislation, Promises Action for Vets During a speech Tuesday to service members and veterans in Fort Worth, President Joe Biden said the country must not "repeat...
Lawmakers Balk at VA Plans to Roll Out Electronic Medical Records System Democrat Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers are united in their concerns over the VA's new health records...
Is the Army Doing Enough to Prevent Suicides? Lawmakers Don't Think So House lawmakers grilled Defense Department officials on what they see as inadequate care and services for troops at risk for...
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...
