The House passed legislation overwhelmingly to provide $1 billion to Israel to restock its Iron Dome short-range missile defense system just days after Democrats removed the funding from a broad stopgap spending bill.
Staffing levels at the Kabul embassy have already been significantly reduced pending the completion of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
Military officials say they will be able to respond to terrorism threats in Afghanistan even without troops on the ground there, but details are scarce.
The senior chief fire controlman assigned to Information Warfare Training Command Virginia Beach died of coronavirus-related complications on Thursday, the Navy confirmed.
Schultz was the longest serving secretary of state since World War II and had been the oldest surviving former Cabinet member of any administration. The former Marine Corps artillery officer was 100.