Congressional leaders unveiled a sweeping bipartisan veterans package Thursday that combines more than 60 separate bills into a single legislative effort, potentially delivering one of the largest expansions of veterans benefits, survivor support and VA reforms in years. The newly introduced Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237) includes…
There are lots of ways to slice and dice automotive sales and production data in search of trends that signal a shift from month to month, quarter to quarter, or year to year. Clump together 10 or 20 years of data and you start to see the big picture. That’s…
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Earlier this month, executives from General Motors and Ford met with President Trump, along with auto dealer and race team legend Roger Penske. The result of what the President called a “great meeting” was almost certainly not what the automakers had in mind. In short, the President told America that…
Graham Platner has received a wave of both praise and criticism in recent weeks. The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine continues to garner support from at least one particular demographic: veterans groups. Platner officially became the Democratic Party candidate on Tuesday evening after comfortably defeating Gov. Janet Mills, whose campaign…
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, saying the government isn’t willing to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.” The resignation is another blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is already facing demands from Labour colleagues to step…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war. The American attack, which lasted into Thursday morning in Iran, appeared more intense and wider than the day before, but Tehran released…
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Several senior federal technology officials responsible for agency cybersecurity and IT systems are frustrated by the lack of White House guidance on adopting Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, several sources told Nextgov/FCW.Agency chief information officers, or CIOs, manage swaths of digital infrastructure that supports government operations and are facing renewed pressure…
It’s been six years since the U.S. Army partnered with the American Red Cross at Fort Polk, La. in a pioneering dental assistant program that trains military spouses, veterans and other military family members in a specialized field of work. Individuals are once again reaping the benefits. The hiatus was…
Military bases and installations are hardly immune to the problems of the U.S. power grid, which was struggling to handle the nation’s needs even before the AI boom added a huge new demand for electricity. “You can reasonably take the provocative stance that in the AI race, energy actually doesn’t matter,…
Brittany Knauer’s life turned upside down on Nov. 4, 2025. That’s the day her husband, Marine Corps veteran Kane Knauer, died by suicide. He was 38 years old. While she had seen some signs of depression and isolation in her husband, Kane’s suicide was a shocking blow. After all, the…
The FBI and Justice Department seized 13 websites allegedly used by Chinese intelligence operatives to target current and former U.S. officials and military personnel with access to classified government information.In a press release, the DOJ said the domains were designed to look like legitimate consulting firms and were used to…
Every year, thousands of military veterans who have suffered harrowing injuries involving amputations receive prosthetic limbs through the Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s a process that can take weeks, sometimes months, for approval, purchasing, fittings and therapy before an eligible veteran receives one. But as of April 2026, the federal…
Occasional bursts of energy from a Russian missile-detection satellite have been briefly disrupting satellite navigation across large parts of Europe, a pattern that may indicate a “qualitative escalation in GNSS [global navigation satellite system] interference.” At least 75 times between 2019 and 2026, University of Texas researchers observed 10-second bursts of…
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A few months after I was born in 1981, the late gun writer Gene Hill had a story titled “Why You Don’t Always Hit What You Shoot At—(Me Too!)” published in Gun Dog magazine. It was one of the first columns I recall reading when I decided to improve my…
