Lawmakers Try Again on Bill to Give 50,000 Medically Retired Veterans Full VA Disability, Retirement Pay The Major Richard Star Act, which has been floated since 2020, has the support of more than 40 veterans' organizations and...
Government Shutdown Averted, Money for Junior Enlisted Pay Raise Secured After Senate Passes Funding Bill Troop pay will be protected and money to cover an upcoming pay raise for junior enlisted service members will be secure after...
Senate Works to Avert Partial Government Shutdown Ahead of Midnight Deadline The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare as...
Military Leaders Warn of Risks to Armed Forces' Readiness in Temporary Funding Bill The vice chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force said that if they don't get additional funding, they at least...
Lawmakers File Bills to Create Space National Guard, Taking Trump Up on Promise The creation of a Space National Guard is getting a groundswell of support from Congress as bipartisan groups of lawmakers...
Fired Veterans and VA Employees Would Be Reinstated to Federal Jobs Under Senate Proposal Department of Veterans Affairs employees and veterans fired from other agencies as part of the Trump administration's...
GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Would Fund Next Month's Junior Enlisted Pay Raise A House Republican plan to keep the federal government open past Friday by putting most agencies' funding on autopilot...
In Letter Accusing VA Secretary of 'Cover-Up,' Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE-Led VA Firings A group of Senate Democrats is demanding answers on the Department of Veterans Affairs' recent firings of 2,400 probationary...
Panama President Calls Trump's Talk of 'Reclaiming' the Panama Canal a Lie Panama President José Raúl Mulino accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when he said in his address to Congress that...
Pentagon Nominee Pushed to Acknowledge Russian Invasion of Ukraine in Senate Hearing Elbridge Colby on multiple occasions declined to answer directly whether Russia invaded Ukraine, saying it’s a sensitive...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
