Overnight Defense: Senate breaks with Trump on Yemen war | Shanahan hit with...
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View ArticleMilitary will begin enforcing transgender troop ban in April: report
President Trump's ban on transgender troops will go into effect next month, according to a Pentagon memo.The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a memo sent by Pentagon officials states that a ban...
View ArticleShanahan grilled on Pentagon's border wall funding
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was tested Thursday as Democratic senators grilled him on President Trump's plan to use military funding for his proposed border wall.Shanahan sought to...
View ArticlePentagon chief calls reports of charges to allies erroneous: 'We...
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Thursday said the Pentagon will not ask ally nations to pay the full cost of stationing U.S. forces on their soil, plus 50 percent more.Shanahan was asked...
View ArticleTop Pentagon officials say Google work is 'benefiting the Chinese...
Top defense officials on Thursday blasted Google for its work in China, saying that the company’s efforts are serving the interests of the U.S. adversary.“The work that Google is doing in China is...
View ArticleActing Defense secretary distances himself from Boeing controversy
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who worked for Boeing for 30 years before entering the Pentagon, said on Thursday that he has not spoken to anyone in the Trump administration about the...
View ArticleWarren confronts acting Pentagon chief over $164B war fund request
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan denied Thursday that a Pentagon war fund has become a slush fund under sharp questioning from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).Warren, who is running for the...
View ArticleNavy names new ship class after Navajo people
The U.S. Navy this week named a new class of towing, salvage and rescue ships after the Navajo people to honor the contributions of the tribe to the U.S. military.“The Navajo people have fought and...
View ArticleGraham blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be made public
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday blocked a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be made public after it passed the House unanimously. Senate Minority Leader...
View ArticleSchumer: Democrats will try again to pass bill making Mueller report public
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday pledged that Democrats will try again to pass a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be made public. "We are...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Senate rejects border emergency in rebuke to Trump |...
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View ArticlePompeo slaps visa restrictions on international court probing US military
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the United States would restrict visas of any International Criminal Court (ICC) staffers who investigate actions by U.S. military personnel.The...
View ArticleUS announces new Russia sanctions with Canada, EU
The U.S., Canada and European Union on Friday imposed financial sanctions on more than a dozen officials and entities accused of supporting Russia’s occupation of southeastern Ukraine.The Treasury...
View ArticleWatchdog: Pentagon doesn't know where $2.1B was spent on F-35 parts
Pentagon officials did not account for and manage $2.1 billion worth of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter parts and must now rely on the aircraft’s maker, Lockheed Martin, to tell them where and when it spent...
View ArticleTrump taps Air Force general to be top NATO commander
President Trump has nominated the top Air Force general in Europe to be NATO’s supreme allied commander and the next head of U.S. European Command, the Pentagon announced Friday.Acting Defense...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Trump issues first veto over 'reckless'...
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View ArticleUS planning to leave 1K troops in Syria: report
The U.S. military is reportedly making plans to keep almost 1,000 troops in Syria, several months after President Trump said he was removing all U.S. forces from the country.Citing U.S. officials, The...
View ArticleBooker vows to reverse 'ridiculous' transgender military ban if...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) blasted the Trump administration’s "ridiculous" ban on transgender military service members over the weekend, according to NBC News, and vowed to repeal it if elected...
View ArticleNielsen warns US 'not prepared' for foreign cyberattacks
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday called for the U.S. to take on a “whole of society” approach to combat cyber threats, saying the U.S. “is not prepared” to handle hackers backed...
View ArticlePentagon sends Congress list of projects that could lose funds to...
The Pentagon delivered a list of projects to Congress on Monday that could be affected by President Trump’s plan to use $3.6 billion in military construction funds for his proposed border wall.The...
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