KABUL-The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is investigating newly published photographs from 2010 that show U.S. soldiers posing with the dismembered body parts of Afghan insurgents. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “strongly rejects the conduct depi... »
KABUL — The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is investigating newly published photographs from 2010 that show U.S. soldiers posing with the dismembered body parts of Afghan insurgents. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “strongly rejects the conduct de... »
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) made the TV rounds Wednesday morning – and made a prediction that, come November, the Old Dominion will flip from blue to red. “Is Virginia in play?” host Charlie Rose asked McDonnell during an interview on CBS’ “This Mo... »
Mitt Romney’s appearance this week before the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, a day after President Obama addressed the same group, lacked the bevy of new facts that Obama rolled out as he lashed out at the House Republican budget pla... »
In his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors Tuesday, President Obama called the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “thinly veiled social Darwinism.” What does that mean? Simply put, it means applying the ideas of Charles Darwin —... »
The gabby, gray-haired grand pooh-bahs of journalism sprang from the back flaps of their book jackets onto a real-life panel Tuesday afternoon in the air-conditioned guts of the Marriott Wardman Park, where the American Society of News Editors was hold... »
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. Read full article »
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois--The big, cheering crowd in the school gymnasium here Friday night spoke to the distance Rick Santorum has traveled since those lonely days when his candidacy was dismissed as a hopeless exercise. It spoke also to the divide... »
The Pentagon scrambled Wednesday to try to determine how many victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had their remains incinerated and dumped in a landfill. Senior officials acknowledged that they were caught flat-footed by the revelations, made in a P... »
The United States’ view of warfare has been changing. To deter potential conflicts, the nation will have forward-based sea, air and ground forces in strategic areas around the globe. It will also retain its nuclear triad of land- and submarine-based in... »
The Pentagon budget will actually shrink next year, for the first time since 1998, under a proposal released by the Obama administration that will cut the size of the Army and Marine Corps, trim the number of fighter aircraft and ships, and seek congre... »
The Department of Veterans Affairs has found scores of misplaced headstones and at least eight cases of people buried in the wrong places at several military cemeteries across the country. The review by the VA’s National Cemetery Administration follows... »
We told you on Monday that Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will be in Richmond Thursday morning for a fundraiser for the state GOP. Now we hear the former House speaker will be in Rosslyn the night before for a rally at the Key Bridge Mar... »
Herman Cain, who mounted a much-criticized defense against allegations of sexual harassment, said that if he had the chance to head a Cabinet department, he has his heart set on one particular position. Treasury, Mr. 9-9-9? Nope. Read full article »
(This story has been updated.) The White House on Thursday stood by the decision of the Department of Defense to award the Medal of Honor to Sgt. Dakota Meyer despite a report that the Marine Corps embellished some of Meyer’s actions in presenting his ... »
