by Daniel Hersh | Feb 3, 2015 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Gang shootings in the Washington metropolitan area have been on the rise in the last few months but how the gangs operate differs significantly based on their location – and that has caught the attention of law enforcement officials. “I know the...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, National Security, Topics
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — Veteran Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald brought his message of transparency about health care benefits to a town hall Tuesday morning. Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and members from the Veterans Affairs Committee also participated in...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – The Pentagon requested $534 billion for 2016 on Monday as part of President Barack Obama’s budget, $35 billion dollars above the caps set by Congress in the automatic spending cuts. In addition, it proposed $51 billion for overseas...
by Medha Imam | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a 6 percent increase in the State Department budget — to $50.3 billion — as a way to combat increasing security threats around the world through diplomacy. The administration wants $7 billion to respond...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – A specially appointed congressional watchdog agency has found U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan are failing and costing millions of dollars. Meanwhile, a range of experts say the standards used to judge the projects are...
by Daniel Hersh | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States’ technological advantage over its enemies is slowly diminishing, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. He wants to change that. Work presented Wednesday the details of the proposed Third Offset Strategy that was conceived...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – Military chiefs on Wednesday warned automatic spending cuts could result in scaled-back services and difficulties in meeting the increasingly volatile security environment. Representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Corps...
by Haley Hinkle | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall expressed concern Wednesday about the U.S. military’s technological capacity to respond to foreign threats. Kendall spoke before the House Armed Services Committee along with Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay of the...
by Paige Leskin | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In its first meeting of 2015, the House special committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, once again Tuesday became an exercise in fingerpointing, with Republicans saying the White House is evading and Democrats...
by Tal Axelrod | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said Tuesday President Barack Obama failed to maintain a firm line in Iranian nuclear negotiations, claiming that the U.S. conceded too much without getting anything in return. “Negotiations…appear to be...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON — Lawmakers trying to limit the spread of terrorist propaganda on social media say they are frustrated by tech companies’ opposition to expanded security measures. “There needs to be an effort to work cooperatively with these...
by Astrid Goh | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — The only way European governments can stop Islamist radicalization that creates terrorists like those responsible for the recent Paris attacks is to get help from Muslim religious leaders, a group of foreign policy experts said Tuesday. Four...
