100 Veterans Will Serve in Congress at the Start of Next Year The results of this year's election point to a slow but steady growth in veterans in Congress.
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
Republicans Push Back Against Democrats' Claims that Trump Intelligence Pick Gabbard Is Compromised Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and veteran of combat missions in Iraq, said she had concerns about Tulsi Gabbard...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Thousands of Women Serve in Combat Roles. Pentagon Nominee Hegseth Says They Shouldn’t. Pete Hegseth has made clear, in his own words, that he is critical of military service by women and more specifically opposes...
Pentagon Silent on Elon Musk and Starlink Risks as Military Use Expands In the past year, U.S. news outlets have reported that Musk, who oversees the satellite internet provider, has developed a...
Facing a Purge of Generals, Pentagon Points to Effects of Tuberville's Long Hold on Promotions The Defense Department's spokeswoman says that removing a slew of admirals and generals would have serious impacts on...
'He's Going to Have to Explain It': Surprise Defense Secretary Pick's History Takes Center Stage Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's surprise pick to be the next defense secretary, has an extensive history of...
'It Could Be Very Hard to Do Our Job': Top Military Officers Brace for Trump's Potential Loyalty Review Boards The Wall Street Journal reported on a draft executive order that is under consideration by the Trump transition team that...
Marine Veteran Ruben Gallego Wins Arizona US Senate Race Against Republican Kari Lake Gallego’s victory continues a string of Democratic successes for the Senate in a state that was reliably Republican for those...
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...