House Panel Approves Defense Bill with Highest Pay Raise in Decades After Culture War Brawl Fights over diversity training, COVID-19 and LGBTQ+ troops dominated the House Armed Services Committee's yearly markup of...
Protections for Troops Booted over COVID Vaccine Mandate Added to House Defense Bill The five vaccine-related amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act passed largely along party lines, though a few...
Stolen Valor Researchers Sound Alarm on House Proposal to Curtail Access to Military Records Uncovering when people are lying about their military service could be harder under a proposal in Congress to restrict public...
A-10s Were Saved from Retirement for Years. Congress May Not Swoop to the Rescue This Time. A draft of the House's version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act policy bill would allow the service to reduce...
Space Force Could Get a Guard Force and Part-Time Guardians, If House Lawmakers Get Their Way The House's proposed defense authorization bill for the coming year aims to turn more than a dozen Air National Guard units...
No Abortions, Pride Flags or Transgender Care: Republicans Use Spending Bill to Block VA Policies The effort, made by GOP lawmakers in the annual VA spending bill, aims to stop the agency from following policies it sees as...
Lawmakers Pressure Air Force to Finally Make Space Command HQ Basing Decision Lawmakers are dialing up pressure on the Air Force to make a final decision about the permanent home for U.S. Space Command.
Biggest Troop Pay Raise in 2 Decades on Track in House Defense Bill Service members would get a 5.2% pay raise next year under the House Armed Services Committee's draft of the annual defense...
Bad Economy Bonus for E-6 and Below Pushed by House in Annual Defense Bill The proposal for a bonus for service members hurting from the economy is similar to an idea in last year's House NDAA for an...
Troops Get New Bereavement Leave for Loss of Spouse or Child The benefit was included among the quality-of-life initiatives in the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
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...
