In many ways, putting pen to paper can be therapeutic and healing. That’s proven to be the case for a new writing workshop at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., where veterans, other military members and first responders are learning the art of writing as a tool to process their…
Tennessee is moving Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway signs off a stretch of road already dedicated to 25 local Vietnam War dead, after veterans said they were never consulted. The signs went up in June along State Route 386 in Sumner County, which has for years been designated Vietnam Veterans Boulevard…
A retail company has donated $100,000 to fund a grant that helps veterans with their farming businesses as they transition out of the military and into civilian life. The company, Tractor Supply Company, and its foundation arm, the Tractor Supply Company Foundation, made the donation to the nonprofit the Farmer…
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Street protests continued across Ukraine for a tenth day on Saturday in support of former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, whom President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired and then attempted to placate with offers of different jobs. Fedorov is having none of it, saying on Thursday, “I will not accept any position other…
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Supporters of the International Criminal Court were trying to chart a course forward on Saturday, a day after the global institution was plunged into uncharted territory following the ouster of its chief prosecutor over allegations of sexual misconduct. A lengthy and bruising process ended swiftly…
The United States has gradually expanded the scope of its attacks against Iran over the course of two weeks of punishing airstrikes that increasingly resemble the war’s opening salvos. After a brief ceasefire in June following the signing of an interim deal to end the conflict, a battle for control…
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Making high-stakes decisions and dealing with the rules of engagement hits differently for U.S. service members who were exposed to human suffering and sanctioned lethal force. For some, experiences that deeply conflicted with moral beliefs left them with what we now call moral injury. The concept of moral injury came…
Modern navigation systems assume satellites will always be available. TERN, an Austin-based technology company, believes that assumption is becoming increasingly dangerous. In an interview, TERN co-founders Brett Harrison and Shaun Moore described how the company developed its Independently Derived Positioning System (IDPS™), a navigation platform designed to continue functioning even…
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Last year’s abrupt termination of USAID caused roughly 10-percent increases in conflict events and combat deaths in Africa, according to peer-reviewed research released on Thursday.The study by European and U.S. researchers examined violence and security in 870 African subnational regions between March 2024 and November 2025. It found that the swift…
Two leaders have been tapped by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to coordinate spy agencies’ efforts to track and thwart threats to the 2026 midterm elections, according to a congressional source and a second person familiar with the matter. Dave Mastro serves on the National Intelligence Council, which uses intelligence-community findings…
Humans often find beauty in symmetry. Some say it’s because we have an innate need to create order, or because we associate it with health and efficiency. Think of the massive stone statues in Egypt, which showcase an astounding amount of symmetry. Who would waste all that time making the…
Flying and downing drones are becoming part of many U.S. soldiers’ jobs, so over the last few weeks in Lithuania, infantry units worked to add drone warfare to their ground-combat expertise.During the fifth iteration of Project Flytrap, a U.S. Army-NATO exercise in Europe, members of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment joined…
U.S. officials pressed Israel and Lebanon for a security deal on Thursday as Washington tried to contain another volatile Middle East front involving Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group whose fight with Israel threatens to pull more American attention into the region. U.S. sources cited tensions rising inside the State Department about…
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