Pentagon Plans $5 Billion for Border, Bets on Trump Bill to Fill Funding Gaps The budget plans for fiscal 2026 were released as President Donald Trump is pursuing mass deportations across the country and...
Pentagon Presses Iran Strike Claims as Briefed Senators Point to Unknown Effects A Pentagon press conference ordered by President Trump quickly turned contentious, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
Democrats Are at Odds Over the Israel-Iran War as Trump Considers Intervening Many prominent Democrats with 2028 presidential aspirations are staying silent, so far, on the Israel-Iran war.
Hegseth Demurs on Possible US Military Action Against Iran Amid Trump Saber-Rattling The hearing -- Hegseth's fourth and final appearance before Congress in a week -- came as Israel and Iran have been...
Hegseth Faces More Grilling from Congress as Iran-Israel Conflict Escalates Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is returning to Capitol Hill for the last in a series of hearings before lawmakers.
Food Assistance Cuts Softened, Veterans Education Benefits Protected in Senate Version of Trump Agenda Bill Two aspects of a sweeping bill to enact President Donald Trump's agenda that alarmed veterans and military family advocates...
Iowa Congresswoman Pushes to Expand Benefits for Vietnam Vets Exposed to Agent Orange Federal legislation signed into law in 2022 expanded VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
Hegseth, Democrats Tangle over Troop Deployments to Los Angeles Amid the back-and-forth between Hegseth and Democrats at a House Appropriations Committee defense subpanel hearing, the...
Hegseth Faces Congress for First Time since Signal Leaks and Marine Deployment to Los Angeles Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to field sharp questions from members of Congress about his tumultuous start as...
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...