Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been...
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plan Offering Incentives for Federal Workers to Resign U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. in Boston directed the administration to extend that deadline until after a court...
Trump Orders DoD to Study School Choice Options for Military Families Trump directed the department to "review any available mechanisms under which military-connected families may use funds from...
From Fighting Disease to Protecting the Amazon Rainforest, USAID Has Big Impact Across the Globe The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism...
Mexico Deploys the First of 10,000 National Guard Troops to US Border After Trump's Tariff Threat A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, among...
Israel Begins Preparations for Gaza Exodus as Egypt Lobbies Against Trump Plan Israel said it has begun preparations for the departure of large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in line with...
Pentagon Caught Flat-Footed on Trump's Bombshell Proposal to Seize Gaza, Potentially with US Troops Pentagon officials have spent most of the early days of Trump's second term reacting to executive orders or policy...
How Trump's Moves to End Protections for Transgender People Could Hurt Veterans Health Care In one of his first moves in office last month, Trump signed an executive order that railed against "ideologues who deny the...
USAID Workers Scramble for Answers After Trump Pulls Almost All of Them Off the Job Worldwide The order all but shut down the six-decade mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal government's...
The Return to Work Order Is Creating Chaos, Anguish for Military Spouses Military spouse unemployment has been around 20% for half a century.
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...