VA Gets $5 Billion Boost to Fix Problems in House Social Spending Bill The biggest cut for the VA funding came from the money to update aging infrastructure, which was originally proposed at $15.2...
Senate Approves Congressional Gold Medals for Troops Killed in Kabul Airport Attack The 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in August are on track to receive Congress' highest honor.
Don't Let Predatory Companies 'Hide Behind' Forced Arbitration, Military Groups Urge Congress A coalition of military and veterans advocacy groups is urging Congress to protect service members from forced arbitration...
White House, Congress Clash over How to Combat Extremism in the Military Language in the House-passed version of a massive annual defense policy bill aims to give the military more tools to root out...
Vice Chairman’s Retirement Leaves Hole on Joint Chiefs as Biden Delays Nominee Pick The office of the second-highest ranking military officer in the U.S. is set to be vacant within weeks because no replacement...
Women Facing Disproportionate Challenges When Leaving Military Service, Experts Tell Congress Surging homelessness and high rates of unemployment are plaguing women leaving military service.
Too Many Civilians? Pentagon Officials and House Lawmaker Disagree The number of civilian workers compared to military service members is at an all-time high, and that's unsustainable, Rep...
Senators Say They Won't Wait 9 Years for Pentagon to Make Planned Sexual Assault Reforms Eight senators want reforms to combat military sexual assault to happen in six months, they wrote in a letter to Defense...
House Votes to Award Congressional Gold Medal to Troops Killed in Kabul Airport Blast The 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in August are a step closer to receiving Congress' highest...
Bill Seeks to End 'Pink Tax' for Women Buying Uniforms A bill introduced by Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, aims to eliminate the "pink tax," or the higher...
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...
