Last Vietnam Vet in Senate, Set to Retire, Reflects on Efforts to Reconcile with Former Enemies in Hanoi In May, Tom Carper announced that he'd be retiring from the Senate after 14 successful campaigns in Delaware for statewide...
Tuberville Hold on Military Promotions Faces Biggest Challenge as Democrats Rally to Change Senate Rules Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced that the Senate Rules Committee that she chairs will vote Nov. 14 on a resolution "to allow the...
The Not-So-Secret Fund That's Bolstering Ukraine Military Aid: the Presidential Drawdown Authority The Biden administration has used presidential drawdown authority 50 times since August 2021, authorizing around $25.2...
Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them. A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an...
Army Watchdog Should Investigate Handling of Soldier Who Killed 18 in Mass Shooting, Maine Senators Say The lawmakers, Sens. Susan Collins, a Republican, and Angus King, an Independent, want to know whether the service followed...
Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a 'Broken' Confirmation Process, Critics Say Anger over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade of high-ranking military promotions may have hit a boiling point as a handful of...
As Commandant Recovers from Cardiac Arrest, There's Now a 4-Star Officer in the Top Marine Seat Again The Marine Corps on Friday said that Gen. Eric Smith was making “excellent progress following sudden cardiac arrest earlier...
Senate Finally Confirms 3 Top Military Officers After Fellow Republicans Erupt in Anger over Tuberville Blockade Chiefs of the Navy and Air Force, as well as the second-in-command at the Marine Corps, were confirmed by the Senate after a...
Marine Commandant's Health Crisis Spurs Senate to Set Up Votes on 3 Top Officers The Senate will vote on the nominees for the No. 2 general in the Marine Corps and the chiefs of the Air Force and Navy...
Marine Commandant Remains Hospitalized as Senator Moves to Lift Blockade on Service's Second in Command The move by Sen. Tuberville comes a day after the Marines announced that a three-star officer further down the line 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...
