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Pentagon & Congress

  • President Joe Biden walks from the podium after speaking from the Treaty Room in the White House on April 14 about the withdrawal all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
    Biden says keeping US troops in Afghanistan past this summer ‘makes no sense to me’

    All U.S. troops will be out of the country by Sept. 11, the president said.

    Leo Shane III
    1 hour ago
  • Service members take part in the Joint Women’s Leadership Symposium on June 20, 2018, at the San Diego Convention Center. (1st Lt. Annabel Monroe/Air Force)
    ‘Pink tax’ on women’s military uniform items would be eliminated under new proposal

    The move follows reports that women pay thousands more in uniform costs over their careers than their male counterparts.

    Leo Shane III
    2 hours ago
  • Director Avril Haines of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 14, 2021. (Photo by GRAEME JENNINGS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
    China aims to weaponize space, says intel community report

    The U.S. intelligence community is issuing a warning in its Global Risk Assessment.

    Joe Gould
    3 hours ago
  • Despite years of efforts, sexual assault scandals continue to erupt in the Army. (Sgt. Uriah Walker/Army)
    Fort Sill sexual assault case stirs up the worst kind of deja vu

    Leaders preying on the military's most vulnerable members is a recurring problem in the struggle against military sexual assault.

    Meghann Myers
    22 hours ago
  • Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael A. Loh, then the adjutant general for the Colorado National Guard, talks with reporters at a roundtable discussion about the National Guard's role in the newly formed Space Force at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Erich B. Smith)
    Do we need a Space National Guard? Colorado says yes, but Congress is not so sure.

    Pressure is mounting on Congress to make a decision about the creation of a Space Force guard component.

    Davis Winkie and Rachel S. Cohen
    23 hours ago
  • USERRA cases could one day wind up being heard by the Supreme Court. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
    How courts may make paid military leave as common as paid sick leave

    Multiple class action lawsuits could soon result in paid short-term military leave for hundreds of thousands of reserve component troops.

    Davis Winkie
    23 hours ago
  • Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu speaks as he visits a naval base in in Gadzhiyevo, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
    2 US Navy ships to sail Black Sea amid Russian troop buildup near Ukraine

    Amid the recent tensions, the United States notified Turkey that two U.S. warships would sail to the Black Sea on April 14 and April 15 and stay there until May 4 and May 5.

    Vladimir Isachenkov, The Associated Press
    23 hours ago
  • Roger Zakheim, left, Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, speaks with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., during an event in Washington on April 13, 2021. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Institute)
    House Armed Services chair ‘deeply concerned’ by White House budget delays

    The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee blasted the White House for “dragging their feet” on the federal budget, urging its release by May 10 to avoid a continuing resolution.

    Joe Gould
    1 day ago
  • U.S. service members secure the perimeter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in support of Resolute Support on March 17, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Joel Pfiester/Air Force)
    Biden to order all US troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11

    White House officials had been struggling with a May 1 deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country.

    Leo Shane III and Joe Gould
    1 day ago
  • Now on pause, Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines have been prioritized for overseas locations. (Ryo Isobe/U.S. Navy)
    Vaccinations for overseas troops in jeopardy as DoD halts Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shots

    The Pentagon did not say how the pause would affect its vaccine program or when it might lift.

    Meghann Myers
    1 day ago
  • Roger Zakheim, Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Institute (left), speaks with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash. (right), during an event in Washington, D.C. on April 13. (Photo courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Institute)
    Personnel spending cuts won’t help military readiness, key lawmaker warns

    House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said he doesn't see pay cuts or benefits trims as a good solution to reducing defense spending.

    Leo Shane III
    1 day ago
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