Ex-NATO Chief Leads Push by Retired Military Brass to Kill Iran Deal Nearly 200 retired military leaders have signed a letter to the House and Senate leaders urging them to kill the Iran nuclear...
Vets Groups Warn Lawmakers That Shutdown Would Disrupt VA Services IAVA and other vets organizations are warning lawmakers that a government shutdown would disrupt VA benefits and services.
House Readies Emergency Bill to Continue Paying Troops During Shutdown The house is preparing contingencies to make sure that the troops continue to get paid in the event that negotiations break...
House Passes Defense Bill, Defies Veto Threat from White House The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense bill for 2016, but failed to garner enough votes to override an Obama veto...
Proposal Would Allow Military Families to Split Their PCS Newly proposed legislation would allow service members and their families to move to a new duty station at different times to...
Pentagon Can Only Hope to Keep Paying Troops, Carter Says Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says he wants to keep paying the troops but can only offer hope on a budget resolution.
Marijuana Refugees: Wounded Veterans Willing to Move for Medicinal Pot The Senate passed legislation with a provision that would allow Veterans Affairs Department doctors to recommend medical...
House Committee Votes to Directly Arm Kurds in Northern Iraq A House committee has approved a bill calling on the president to directly arm the Kurds fighting ISIS in northern Iraq...
Spending Deal Includes Funding for 1.3% Troop Pay Raise, More Weapons U.S. lawmakers early Wednesday agreed to a $1.1 trillion spending deal for the fiscal year that includes funding for a 1.3...
VA Ordered to Report to Congress on Burn Pits Registry Findings Congress has directed the Veterans Affairs Department to report on its burn pits registry early next year.
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...
