Her Medal of Honor was once revoked. Now her base is being renamed.
Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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Navy’s preliminary budget undercuts shipbuilding, senator says
The future looks murky for Navy shipbuilding due to budgetary uncertainty amid lagging ship production, Sen. Roger Wicker said at a recent hearing.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
Mattis: New defense strategy won’t work under budget caps
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warns lawmakers the strategy is “not sustainable” under budget caps due to return in 2020 and 2021, unless Congress arrives at a way to ease or eliminate them.
By Joe Gould
Trump’s Ronny Jackson disaster will make fixing the VA a lot harder
The department, already dealing with years of negative attention, is now embroiled in a leadership scandal that again threatens its reputation.
Defense industry needs 5 percent annual budget growth to stay healthy, says new AIA report
The American defense-industrial base needs the Pentagon budget to grow at least 5 percent per year to remain healthy and stable, the industry’s leading trade group says.
By Joe Gould
Brown says agreement reached on California Guard deployment
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he would join President Donald Trump’s border mission by contributing up to 400 National Guard troops, announcing a deal after a week of uncertainty about how to accomplish a deployment that focuses largely on illegal immigration and honor the governor’s insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work.
Trump leaves open possibility of bailing on meeting with North Korea leader
President Donald Trump said that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it’s “not going to be fruitful.”
US officials say Pompeo has met with North Korea’s Kim
CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
Trump says US and North Korea talking at ‘extremely high levels’
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at “extremely high levels” in preparation for a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
By Jill Colvin, The Associated Press and Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
Trump bashes California on border mission, Brown sees a deal
President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed California Gov. Jerry Brown’s posture on sending National Guard troops to the Mexican border even as Brown said he was nearing agreement on joining the president’s mission.
By Elliot Spagat, The Associated Press
US says California rejects proposed border duties for troops
The Trump administration said Monday that California Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the National Guard’s initial deployment to the Mexican border, but a state official said nothing was decided.
By Elliot Spagat, The Associated Press and Luis Alonso Lugo, The Associated Press