Biden Signs Defense Bill with Junior Enlisted Pay Hike, Ban on Treatments for Transgender Military Kids A massive raise for junior enlisted troops next year and a ban on some health care for transgender children of service...
Defense Bill Mandates Changes to Weapons, Other Steps to Protect Troops' Brain Health Members of Congress in both parties have been increasingly concerned about traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, among service...
Troop Pay Safe After Congress Approves Extension of Government Funding Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March and...
Government Funding Bill Clears Congress and Heads to President Biden, Averting a Shutdown The House approved Johnson's new bill overwhelmingly, 366-34.
As Space Force Marks 5-Year Anniversary, Republicans and Trump Aim to Take it Higher In a month, the president who created the Space Force will be back in the White House, and one of the service's biggest...
Is the NORAD Santa Tracker Safe from a Government Shutdown? NORAD's annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War, predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics.
Troop Pay Could Be Delayed Under Elon Musk-Inspired Government Shutdown The potential loss of pay in the midst of the holiday season was looming Thursday after plans negotiated by Republicans and...
14.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise, Restriction on Care for Transgender Military Kids Headed to Biden's Desk The 4.5% raise will be added to all service members' paychecks at the beginning of January, while the remaining 10% extra for...
House Probe Finds Former Coast Guard Commandant Decided to Withhold Sexual Assault Findings An interim report into sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and subsequent cover-up of an investigation found the...
US Agencies Should Use Advanced Technology to Identify Mysterious Drones, Schumer Says U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy advanced drone-tracking technology following weeks of...
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...
