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House panel pushes ahead $453 billion funding plan for VA next year
The appropriations plan would add more than $80 billion to the current VA funding level, giving the department its biggest budget ever.
Watch the first trailer for the stranger-than-fiction ‘Cocaine Bear’
The otherworldly circumstances that led to a black bear ingesting a mountain of cocaine form the basis of the upcoming film.
By J.D. Simkins
Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter dies of heart attack at age 68
Carter served in the top Pentagon role from 2015 to 2017.
Debate on ‘no first use’ of nukes mushrooms in Washington
Five years after President Barack Obama turned back from declaring a “no first use” as U.S. policy for nuclear weapons, opponents say the Biden administration is considering it too, and warn that it risks alienating allies.
By Joe Gould
Best pics of the week: June 27, 2021
Exercise Amalgam Dart 21-01, Marines train in Saudi Arabia, the USS Halsey (DDG 97) transits the South China Sea, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Troops with ‘personal religious or moral beliefs about homosexuality’ deserve respect, says retired Army general who led ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ report in 2010
Retired Army Gen. Carter F. Ham urges today's defense secretary to "respect service members who have beliefs opposed to LGBTQI+ behaviors and conduct."
By Carter Ham
10 former Pentagon chiefs warn Trump on involving military in pursuing election claims
All 10 living former secretaries of defense signed on to an opinion article that implicitly questioned Trump’s willingness to follow his constitutional duty to peacefully relinquish power on Jan. 20.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Special Forces sergeant charged in Illinois bowling alley shooting that killed 3
Investigators are in touch with the U.S. Army about the shooter, Duke Webb, 37.
By Kyle Rempfer
In honor of Military Families Month, we rise up strong
The Rosalynn Carter Institute on Caregiving has partnered with other organizations to better understand the challenges military families and caregivers face.
By K. Conwell Smith