Defense
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President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is defending his response to the attack
May 11, 2021 -
A former nursing assistant has been sentenced to seven consecutive terms of life in prison for injecting seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin.
May 11, 2021 -
The nation’s top general says he is now open to considering a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of military commanders
May 03, 2021 -
After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns
April 25, 2021 -
The Pentagon has swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and issued new rules that broaden their access to medical care and gender transition
March 31, 2021 -
A watchdog report finds that a former Navy civilian auditor sexually harassed at least a dozen female employees for more than two decades as part of a pervasive pattern of misconduct and retaliation
March 24, 2021 -
Army leaders are kicking out the requirement that soldiers do at least one leg tuck as part of the new physical fitness test.
March 22, 2021 -
The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs
February 08, 2021 -
The Senate has confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas as President Joe Biden’s homeland security secretary
February 02, 2021 -
The new secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, is giving his senior leaders two weeks to send in reports on sexual assault prevention programs in the military.
January 23, 2021 -
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At the moment President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Wednesday, the National Archives and Records Administration will take custody of Donald Trump’s presidential records.
January 16, 2021 -
U.S. officials say Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist has been asked to serve as the acting secretary of defense for President-elect Joe Biden until a permanent Pentagon chief can be confirmed by the Senate.
January 14, 2021 -
President-elect Joe Biden has selected a federal appeals court judge, Merrick Garland, as his attorney general
January 06, 2021 -
President Donald Trump is lashing out at congressional Republicans after the House easily voted to override his veto of a defense policy bill
December 29, 2020