VA unveils proposal to expand private health care for veterans
Veterans who live an average of 30 minutes driving time away from a Veteran Affairs medical facility would be allowed to see a private doctor under proposed guidelines released Wednesday.The proposal...
View ArticleBipartisan House group introduces bills to stall Syria, South Korea troop...
A bipartisan group of eight House lawmakers on Wednesday introduced two bills to make it more difficult for the Trump administration to withdraw troops from Syria and South Korea. The bills, introduced...
View ArticleHouse Armed Services Dems demand Pentagon offer more complete climate change...
The head of the House Armed Services Committee is urging acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to revise a study on climate change and its impacts on national security that lawmakers say was...
View ArticleOvernight Defense — Presented by Raytheon — Trump blasts intel officials as...
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View ArticleSchumer: Past time for intel leaders to 'stage an intervention'...
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is urging top intelligence officials to meet with President Trump after the commander in chief lashed out at the intelligence community earlier...
View ArticleTrump to abandon arms pact with Russia as soon as Saturday, US official says
The Trump administration will stop abiding by a landmark arms control pact with Russia as soon as Saturday after last-minute diplomatic efforts to bring Moscow back into compliance failed, a top State...
View ArticleTrump: More troops going to border but wall would be 'much easier'
President Trump said Thursday that more U.S. troops are being deployed to the southern border, but argued that a border wall would be more effective in countering what he described as an "attempted...
View ArticleBipartisan senators press Trump for strategy to protect Syrian Kurds
A bipartisan pair of senators is pressing President Trump to develop a strategy for protecting Kurdish forces once the U.S. military withdraws from Syria.Sens. Diane Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Tammy...
View ArticleRand Paul: 'Ludicrous' to call a withdrawal from Afghanistan and...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday it was "ludicrous" for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to call taking troops out of Syria and Afghanistan “precipitous.”“To call it a precipitous...
View ArticleUS military: 24 al-Shabaab fighters killed in Somalia airstrike
A U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week killed 24 al-Shabaab fighters, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Thursday.The strike was conducted Wednesday near an extremist camp close to Shebeeley in...
View ArticlePentagon report reveals spike in unwanted sexual contact at military academies
Students at U.S. military academies experienced unwanted sexual contact nearly 50 percent more often compared to last school year, despite Defense Department efforts to stamp out the issue, according...
View ArticleTrump says time, place chosen for second summit with Kim
President Trump said Thursday that a time and place has been chosen for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and that the details will be announced next week.“We’ll be announcing it...
View ArticleSenate admonishes Trump on Syria
Senate Republicans joined Democrats in offering a direct rebuke Thursday of the administration’s Syria policy, marking the first time during the new Congress that the GOP caucus has formally broken...
View ArticleHouse Armed Services chairman demands transparency on border troops
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is asking acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan for transparency on the Pentagon’s plans to send additional active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexican...
View ArticleOvernight Defense — Presented by Raytheon — Senate admonishes Trump on Syria...
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View ArticleTrump administration to suspend nuclear treaty with Russia
The Trump administration announced Friday that it would suspend its obligations under a decades old Cold War arms control pact with Russia on Saturday, citing Moscow's violations of the treaty.The...
View ArticleFive takeaways on Trump decision to suspend nuclear treaty with Russia
The Trump administration on Friday announced long-anticipated plans to stop complying with a Soviet-era arms control pact with Russia, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.President Trump...
View ArticleOvernight Defense — Presented by Raytheon — Trump suspends landmark nuclear...
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View ArticleTrump says he forced Mattis to resign
President Trump says he forced former Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign as he “wasn’t happy with the job that he was doing at all,” according to an interview the president gave to The New York...
View ArticlePentagon draft report warns ISIS could regain territory in months without...
A forthcoming Pentagon assessment is expected to warn that ISIS could regain lost territory in Syria within months without continued U.S. pressure, according to multiple reports.NBC News reported...
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