The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Marco Rubio Warns China Is America's 'Biggest Threat,' Affirms Value of NATO Alliance Florida Sen. Marco Rubio painted a dark vision of the consequences of America's "unbalanced relationship" with China, echoing...
UK Says a Deal on the Chagos Islands Won't Be Finalized until Trump Is Consulted The governments of Britain and Mauritius have been negotiating in recent months to complete an agreement to settle the future...
Japan and Philippines Plan to Convey to Trump the Need for US Engagement in Asia Japan and the Philippines will convey to President-elect Donald Trump the urgent need for the U.S. to remain committed to...
Speaker Johnson Orders US Capitol Flags Raised to Full Height for Trump's Inauguration House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing...
Hegseth Grilled About Women in Combat, Officer Purge in Confirmation Hearing Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon, dismissed allegations that he committed sexual...
Russia's Top Diplomat Praises Trump's Views on Ukraine Conflict Russia’s top diplomat said that Moscow is open for talks with President-elect Donald Trump and praised him for pointing to...
Pete Hegseth, Trump's Nominee for Defense Secretary, Faces Crucial Test at Confirmation Hearing President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, calls himself a “change agent” heading into a...
Incoming Trump Team Is Questioning Civil Servants at National Security Council About Their Loyalty At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to...
Trump's Pick for Top Pentagon Health Care Job Was Fired by CIA Keith Bass, President-elect Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon’s sprawling health care systems, was effectively fired by the...
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...
